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Young was a concert singer. She made her professional debut as a soprano with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age 19. She had an affair with Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck. Muck's incriminating letters to her were part of the evidence gathered for his 1918 arrest (and subsequent
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Chapin and her husband created and directed the New Boston Opera Company and the New Boston Music Festival in the 1930s and 1940s, promoting American opera singers and English-language texts. She made English translations of opera
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reviewer described her performance critically: "At times her notes could scarcely be heard above the orchestra. At others she had to force her voice so that her upper tones sounded thin and constricted."
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mentioned Chapin in her newspaper column "My Day" in 1940, saying "I feel sure that there must be people in this country interested in her idea to promote American artists here."
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Young married lawyer and businessman Russell Chapin in 1925. They had two daughters, Isolde and Diana. Diana Chapin married writer
102:(July 17, 1895 – July 30, 1984) was an American singer, theatrical producer and arts administrator. Her personal relationship with 895: 204:, who was double-booked at Jacob's Pillow and in a Broadway show. By 1947, the Chapins were running the New Boston Inn in the 839: 380: 353: 343: 782: 757: 732: 707: 678: 653: 578: 449: 424: 399: 317: 292: 271: 628: 126:, the daughter of Frank Linnaeus Young and Minnie Ella Jones Young. Her father was in manufacturing. She graduated from 808:"Miss Diana Chapin Connecticut Bride; Wed in Congregational Church at Colebrook to Roderick MacLeish, TV Script Editor" 131: 370: 173: 474: 900: 890: 554: 885: 529: 502: 103: 191: 221: 19:
This article is about the American soprano born in 1895; for the author of similar name, see
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Trans-Atlantic Passages: Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1889-1933
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Chapin continued her singing career, including at least three performances at
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The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America
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in 1950. Rosamond Young Chapin died in 1984, at the age of 89, in
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Roz Young
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Roderick MacLeish
Eric MacLeish
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Karl Muck
World War I
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Milton Academy
New England Conservatory of Music
The Washington Post
Katherine Frazier
Boston Globe
libretti
Abduction from the Seraglio
Die Walküre
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Tristan and Isolde
Marie Powers
Berkshires
Roderick MacLeish
Beverly, Massachusetts
Eric MacLeish


"Rosamond Young to Wed"
"Paderewski Indorses Remenyi Artist-Pupil"

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