Former Tisch Dean David J. Oppenheim Dies
David J. Oppenheim, a musician, producer, director, and writer, who was dean of the Tisch School of the Arts from 1969 to 1991, died recently. His many professional accomplishments include playing with some of the 20th century’s greatest conductors— Toscanini, Leinsdorf, Bernstein, Stravinsky, and Steinberg—as a former concert clarinetist, directing the classical music division at Columbia Records, and working as a film and television producer, director, and writer. Oppenheim also served as the executive producer of cultural programming at the Public Broadcast Laboratory.
During his more
than two decades as Tisch dean, Oppenheim transformed the School of the Arts
from a little known collection of classrooms and offices scattered throughout
Greenwich Village into an internationally celebrated training ground for
artists and scholars.
