- Producer at Columbia (now Sony) Records; once ran the division Columbia Masterworks.
- He was a record producer and engineer who helped create some of the most famous classical music recordings of the 20th century.
- He learned piano pieces by ear as a boy, but said he struggled whenever he "got to the hard part." Decades later, he said he had never really mastered score reading.
- He worked with Igor Stravinsky, Bruno Walter, Aaron Copland, Rudolf Serkin, and Leonard Bernstein. He also worked with Dave Brubeck and Joe Nin Williams; recorded 'Peter, Paul and Mary'; and helped engineer the string parts for Pink Floyd's 1979 double album "The Wall.".
- He attended New York University and the New School for Social Research (now the New School), but did not receive a degree. He worked in the merchant marine and took a string of other jobs, including installing stereo systems, before getting an entry-level job at the Carnegie Hall Recording Company in 1950. Within a few years he had become an engineer for Columbia Records, and moved on to producing.
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