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The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music in collaboration with The Kanbar Event Series presents A SCREENING OF “CHICO & RITA” by Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba & Tono Errando Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 6:00pm (seating begins at 5:45pm) 721 Broadway, Lower Concourse, Theater 006 Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita [...]

The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University is proud to announce a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary The Greatest Ears in Town to take place on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 @ 6pm-9pm Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, Theater 200 This critically acclaimed documentary chronicles the life, career, and final recording [...]

Curating a Scene- Questlove from Lyonshare on Vimeo. By ReMu’s Curating Live Music Events Professor, Kobi Wu-Pasmore: To support the curriculum of Curating Live Music Events, I interviewed Questlove of The Roots to talk about his role in creating an iconic (and arguably defining) moment in Hip Hop culture, “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.” About the [...]

“Minting Moguls at N.Y.U” by Max Abelson The New York Observer, September 29, 2010 Jeffrey Rabhan, Chair of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, was recently interviewed by Max Abelson of The New York Observer for an article which is featured in today’s online edition. In the candid conversation about the department, fundraising & [...]

Join the World to Film One Day on Earth! We are thrilled to present you with this amazing opportunity to participate in an upcoming event – One Day on Earth – to help film in every country of the world on 10/10/10. For more information, there is an info session for NYU students on Wednesday, [...]

The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music Tisch School of the Arts, New York University presents an INTIMATE CONVERSATION with TOM STURGES, legendary music industry professional and the Department of Recorded Music’s Executive-in-Residence Tom Sturges, Executive Vice President and Head of Creative for Universal Music Publishing Group, will join the NYU community for an intimate [...]

Henry M. Gaffney, a prolific songwriter and music professor, died on Sunday, May 23, 2010, at his home in Sharon, Connecticut after a struggle with lung cancer. He was 61.  He was the beloved and proud father of 23-year-old twins, Julian and Devin Gaffney, and husband to his best friend and wife of 39 years, [...]

We’re deeply saddened by the news that our beloved Adjunct Associate Professor Henry Gaffney passed away yesterday (May 23rd). Henry began his career in music as a solo recording artist, releasing albums on both RCA  (“Waiting For A Wind”), and United Artists Records (“On Again Off Again”).  He was a staff writer for Koppleman / [...]

This summer 2010, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU will inaugurate an innovative MASTERCLASS SERIES in music production, business and image-making, as part of our regular series of summer course offerings. Students from all walks of life will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come to NYU and [...]

Last month, NARM President Jim Donio and Bill Wilson, NARM’s Director of Digital Strategy & Business Development, came to lecture to the students in Professor Lauren Davis’s Introduction to the Music Business class. NARM stands for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. The non-for-profit trade association’s role is to “advance the promotion, marketing, distribution, and [...]


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The Clive Davis Institute is an innovative undergraduate leadership training program for aspiring creative music entrepreneurs, housed at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Students who dream of becoming leading executives, recording artists, record producers and music journalists come to us to learn the art and business of creating and selling hit music.

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  • Bobby Davis: TO WHITNEY This sadness I have inside Brings me down, makes me cry We’ll miss that infecti [...]
  • Deborah Evans: Today, Saturday, we lost one of the all time greatest singers of my generation. It was announced tha [...]
  • CHRIS WILKINSON: GOD BLESS YOU CLIVE AND THE WHOLE HOUSTON FAMILY... WHITNEY.. WHAT YOU GAVE US WAS IMMEASURABLE TALE [...]
  • veronica: Is there a workshop for adults? Or is this strictly for high schoolers? There really needs to be an [...]
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What I'm Doing...

  • Menya's about to open for RCA band 2am Club at Blender Theater 2 nite...exciting 2010-04-21
  • Kevin Liles, Mick Rock, DJ Rekha, Kevin Killen, Mocean Worker...check out all our summer masterclasses: http://tinyurl.com/y69ysms 2010-04-21
  • Steve Lillywhite did an amazing job lecturing for us last week. Thanks Steve! http://tinyurl.com/y2opjox 2010-04-21
  • our new Future Music Moguls workshop is underway...priority deadline to apply is October 16...see http://www.futuremusicmoguls.com 2009-09-24
  • thanks to all for a great Michael Jackson panel discussion last night....video will be coming soon for those who couldn't make it 2009-09-18
  • thursdays discussion panel on michael jackson panel is sold out....looks like michael fever hasnt died down yet 2009-09-16
  • exciting weekend....NYU Open House is Saturday...The VMAs on Sunday....and then Oprah with Whitney Houston on Monday...yes! 2009-09-11
  • theme of the day, should you walk into our lobby, is 80s pop classics....go Belinda Carlisle! 2009-09-08
  • we're up and blogging...and twittering now! 2009-09-08
  • More updates...

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