Lawrence Gilman (July 5, 1878 in Flushing, New York – September 8, 1939 in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire) was an American author and music critic.
Lawrence Gilman studied art at Collins Street Classical School in Hartford, Connecticut under William M. Chase.
From 1896 to 1898, he worked for the New York Herald,[1] then from 1901 to 1913 as a music critic for Harper's Weekly,[1] where he advanced to the position of managing editor.
From 1915 to 1923, he worked as a critic in multiple arts for the North American Review, and for the Herald Tribune from 1923 until his death.
He described George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, for example, as trite, feeble, conventional, vapid, fussy, futile, lifeless, stale, derivative and inexpressive.