Reminiscences of William Rockefeller, 1979

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Childhood, education at Yale University and Columbia University Law School, 1948; naval officer training program 1941-1946; legal career; board member, president and chairman of Metropolitan Opera Association from 1947: move to Lincoln Center, management problems, 1970s and death of Göran Gentele, restructuring of artistic and business hierarchy, role of Schuyler Chapin, labor relations, finances, fund raising, problems with press and New York City authorities

Subjects

• Culture.
• Fund raising.
• Interviews.
• Kelly, Christine, interviewer.
• Law--United States.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Music--United States.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rockefeller, William, 1918-1990--Interviews.
• United States--Intellectual life--20th century.