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Moses Smith
Moses Smith was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on March 4, 1901, one of the five children of Fred and Rebecca Haifetz. He graduated with an A.B. in music and subsequently attended ...view moreMoses Smith was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on March 4, 1901, one of the five children of Fred and Rebecca Haifetz. He graduated with an A.B. in music and subsequently attended Harvard Law School for two years. He was married to Ethel Singer Robinson and the couple had two daughters. Smith became a wholesale shoe salesman and supplemented his income by writing freelance music reviews for the Boston American. In 1934, he succeeded the well-known critic HTP (Henry T. Parker) at the prestigious Boston Evening Transcript, where he reviewed Serge Koussevitzky’s concerts. He left Boston in 1939 to take a position in New York as Music Director of Columbia Phonograph Company a year after it had been acquired by William S. Paley for CBS. In 1942, he became general manager of the Music Press. He retired before the end of World War II and devoted himself to completing his biography of Koussevitzky and writing freelance articles. He died in Roxbury, Massachusetts on July 27, 1964, the day after what would have been Koussevitzky’s ninetieth birthday.view less