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...presence to the job of general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. A onetime composition student, Chapin has experience as a supervisor of classical recordings for the Columbia label and as a chief of programming for Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Two years ago he was executive producer of Leonard Bernstein's television and film enterprises. Then Sir Rudolf Bing's successor as the Met's general manager, Goran Gentele, named Chapin as his assistant, although Chapin had never before held a job in an opera company. Last July Gentele was killed in a car crash in Sardinia...
...Bernstein will also write the six lectures, for which he prepared video tapes last Fall, while he is in residence this Spring...
Under normal circumstances, the extension of Bernstein's residence period into the next academic year would overlap with his successor's tenure. But the Committee on the Charles E. Norton Professor of Poetry was not planning to appoint anyone to the chair next year anyway for financial reasons, according to Harry Levin '33, chairman of the Committee...
Levin said that the endowment for the chair will "lie fallow" next year accruing interest. Bernstein will not receive extra salary, Levin added...
...Bernstein said when the postponement was announced that he welcomes the extra six weeks in residence next Fall as an opportunity to "atone for spending half his time here last Fall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...