 He collaborated with famed entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee late in her career to produce a musical review in which she intended to star in New York at the El Morocco nightclub, which in the end did not materialize, reportedly due to her health issues.Upon formal retirement in the early 1970s he became a musical consultant to Madison Square Garden.He is the father of Daniel Shaindlin, former operatic tenor and founder of Concert Opera of Manhattan, noted vocal teacher and music director, and artistic director of The Refuge, a theatre company in San Francisco, California.