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He worked as a music executive for CBS , then took a job at BMI , creating that organization's Concert Music Department in 1954 . Also in 1954 he helped to found the CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.) record label, along with composers Otto Luening and Douglas Moore . In 2000, CRI released a tribute CD for Daniel, entitled ''Looking to the East''.

For many years, Daniel worked with and promoted composers such as Henry Cowell , Lou Harrison , Alan Hovhaness , Colin McPhee , and Peggy Glanville-Hicks . He also wrote an exhaustive biography of the conductor Leopold Stokowski entitled ''Leopold Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View'' (1982).