David Oppenheim, a clarinetist at Tanglewood and a producer of classical music records and television documentaries who became the main architect of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, died in New York on Nov. 14. He was 85 and lived in Manhattan.

Mr. Oppenheim was dean of the N.Y.U. School of the Arts from 1969 to 1991, and in 1985 he secured a donation of $7.5 million from Laurence A. Tisch and his brother, Preston Robert Tisch, billionaire businessmen who were then members of the N.Y.U. board of trustees. With that donation, most of the school’s programs were centralized in a 12-story building at 721 Broadway as the Tisch School of the Arts. (via New York Times).......