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Article: Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of the Metropolitan Opera, dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, and so on.(The Week)(Obituary)(Brief article)
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- Article date:
- April 6, 2009
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Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of the Metropolitan Opera, dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, and so on. He was also a friend of WFB. They attended the same school, the Millbrook School, in Dutchess County, N.Y. And WFB thought Chapin just about the best raconteur he ever heard. Once, the Buckleys and Chapin went on a cruise together, shortly after Chapin's wife died. (She was Betty Steinway, of the piano family. His ...
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