Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Feb. 7, 1977.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Chapin, Schuyler, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Genre:

Interviews.

Oral histories (literary works)

Sound recordings.

Transcripts.

Physical Description:

1 audiocassette : analog

1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, NAB standard ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape

digital ; 4 3/4 in.

17 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 535; Box 52, CD 044.

Place of Publication:

Feb. 7, 1977.

Biography/History:

Chapin was general manager of the Metropolitan Opera.

Summary:

Chapin discusses how he first met and worked with Stokowski, his work on a recording of a reunion of Stokowski with the Philadelphia Orchestra for Columbia Records (with Howard Scott as recording engineer), the plan for a film of Tristan and Isolde that never materialized, Stokowski's absence from his daughter Sonya's wedding, his acquaintance with Evangeline Johnson Merrill and her daughters, Stokowski's failure with Turandot, Stokowski's Bach transcriptions, and Stokowski's insistence on being involved in the technical aspects of recording.

Notes:

Recorded on Feb. 7, 1977, in the Century Club, New York City.

Original copy: cassette tape 37; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 44; service copy: one compact disk CD 044. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.