Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Schuyler Garrison Chapin, 1977.
Creator: | Chapin, Schuyler | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 783 pages Sound recording 2 reels Sound recording 23 audiocassettes | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteMusic administrator
Scope and ContentsFamily background; aviation cadet, China-Burma theater, 1943-45; NBC radio, TV, 1947-51; general manager, Tex and Jinx McCrary, 1950-52; booking director, Columbia Artists' Management; tour manager for Jascha Heifetz, 1952-56; Community Concert Subscription system, NBC Opera Co., 1959-63; Vice-President, programming at Lincoln Center, 1964-69; executive producer, Amberson Enterprises, 1969-71; Goeran Gentele's death; acting general manager, Metropolitan Opera, 1972-73, general manager, 1973-75; impressions of past and present Metropolitan directors, performers' temperaments, structures and conflicts of artistic administration; productions, daily schedule, fund-raising; labor negotiations. Impressions of performers, impresarios, particularly Leonard Bernstein, Herbert Von Karajan, Rudolph Bing, Franco Corelli, Anthony Bliss
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2006
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