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Schuyler Chapin was a blue-blood impresario who held a string of jobs in the arts—including general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972-75), dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University (1976-87), and cultural affairs commissioner of New York (1994-2001)—even though he never attended college.