He was educated at Edinburgh University and studied for three and a half years at the Leipzig Conservatoire of Music in Germany, where he was awarded a diploma.
In addition he is to exercise a general control over broadcasting in Scotland and to ensure that, while all possible advantage is taken of services offered by the London station, the importance of meeting national tastes is duly considered.
[6] He published translations of songs and choruses from German, some of these were for BBC performances, including Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (27 January 1928) and Hauer's Wandlungen (3 December 1928).
In 1938, his translation of Das stillvernügte Streichquartett by Bruno Aulich and Ernst Heimeran (Munich, 1936) appeared in New York with H. W. Gray Co., Inc. under the title The Well-Tempered String Quartet.
It is a guide to the world of string quartets intended to give counsel to players in a humorous style, sorted alphabetically by composer.