He also spent eight years on the staff of Musical America magazine, serving as advertising manager and critic.

Judson was therefore already known for his knowledge of music and judgment on musicians of quality when he was appointed as the manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra in July 1915.

His attempt to get an exclusive contract with David Sarnoff at the National Broadcasting Company for the radio program failed.

William S. Paley purchased this network on September 25, 1927, and it became the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), with Judson as the second largest stockholder.

When Theodore Spiering, conductor of the Oregon Symphony, suddenly died in 1925 the orchestra called Judson.

When the Minneapolis Symphony (now the Minnesota Orchestra) needed a conductor in 1931, Judson recommended Eugene Ormandy.

He considered himself a "disappointed conductor" but made up for this by conducting the 100-piece summer orchestra at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, beginning in 1898.

There was plenty to choose from in the catalog: Columbia Concerts Corporation controlled two-thirds of the nation's musical artists and conductors.

Impending government investigations into the concert management monopoly caused William S. Paley to resign as chairman of the board and sell his interests to Judson in 1941.

Addressing the board, he called Judson (who was present) "a dictator who made musical progress impossible".

Rodzinski also lost his next job as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra over programming disputes, purportedly due to the influence of Judson.

Two other conductors who believed Judson damaged their careers were Eugene Aynsley Goossens and Otto Klemperer.

Klemperer, engaged by Judson for the first fourteen weeks of the New York Philharmonic's 1935-1936 season made the "mistake" of programming Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.

Taubman alleged over-hiring of Columbia artists at the New York Philharmonic and may have encouraged the seventy-five-year-old Judson to resign from that post.

Columbia along with three other defendants were charged with restraint of interstate trade and commerce in the booking of artists, and also with monopolizing organized audience associations.

Amongst the artists Judson presented and represented: Ruth St. Denis, Marian Anderson, John Barbirolli, Robert Casadesus, Van Cliburn, Clifford Curzon, Todd Duncan, Nelson Eddy, Benjamino Gigli, Mischa Elman, Zino Francescatti, Gary Graffman, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Jose Iturbi, Lorin Maazel, Yehudi Menuhin, Eugene Ormandy, Lily Pons, Fritz Reiner, Rudolf Serkin, the American Opera Company, and Helen Traubel.

There is one published biography for Arthur Judson: Apart from that, Norman Lebrecht's book offers by far the most details on the man.