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2 Oct 2009The Gallatin School of Individualized Study in association with The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Record Label Series | Motown U present
MAXINE POWELL:
A SPECIAL CONVERSATION WITH MOTOWN’S FIRST LADY OF ARTIST DEVELOPMENT and a RARE MASTERCLASS EVENT In the 1960s, Detroit image builder and personal motivator Maxine [...]
In: announcements| events| motown u| news
28 Sep 2009This Fall, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University is proud to commemorate Motown’s 50th anniversary year with a FREE eclectic conversation series on the famous record label, open to students and the general public.
NYU students also get to attend private, closed [...]
It’s not often we’re discussed in the context of fashion and glamor, but this summer The Clive Davis Department was glad to get a shout out in August’s fifth anniversary issue of T, the New York Times’ style magazine, distributed on Sundays.
The subject was legendary fashion stylist/costume designer Arianne Phillips (pictured above), who gave a [...]
In: music Industry| news
22 Sep 2009Never one to remain behind-the-curve on musical technologies, Brian Eno – a musical visionary whose work is regularly studied as part of the curriculum here at The Clive Davis Department – has just released his second iPhone app, the pragmatically-titled Trope.
As the follow-up to his first app Bloom, Trope was co-created with Burning Shed’s Peter [...]
In: alumni| announcements| news
21 Sep 2009In May 2008, Dan Chertoff was getting ready to graduate from The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. He’d also just started a new A&R gig at Canvasback, a record label headed by industry vet Steve Ralbovsky as a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment.
Now Canvasback has jumped the Sony ship and moved over to [...]
Last night’s Michael Jackson panel event was a resounding success.
The final round-up of speakers included: Daphne Brooks, Margo Jefferson, Spike Lee, Alan Light, Jody Rosen, Toure, Harry Weinger, and Armond White. Artistic Director Jason King moderated.
Pictures and video are coming. While you wait, click HERE for today’s Washington Square News article on the event.
Princeton @ Union Hall from Patrick Duffy on Vimeo.
Rock band Princeton, managed by Clive Davis Department alumnus Seth Kallen, received a positive review for their Sept. 9th Union Hall gig in the New York Times: reviewer Jon Carmanica called their upcoming album Cocoon of Love “harming and frisky, with touches of the Cure and Leonard [...]
We’ve always been proud as an NYU department to bear the name of our principal patron and Sony Music Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis.
This week we’re exponentially proud as Whitney Houston’s brand new I Look to You album – which Mr. Davis co-executive produced – hit the top spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 [...]
In: announcements| news| students
11 Sep 2009Clive Davis Department student/dexterous pianist David McTiernan (pictured above, in the red striped flannel shirt on the far right) will take the helm as band director and arranger for a darkly comic Off-Broadway indie-rock musical called Open the Dark Door, playing at the upcoming New York Musical Theater Festival’s Next Link Series.
The plot sounds positively [...]
In: music Industry| news
10 Sep 2009As an undergraduate program teaching students about the art and business of creating and selling music, we’re admittedly intrigued by the possibilities for Timbaland’s application Beaterator, created for the Sony PSP in tandem with Rockstar Games, and due out in late September.
According to news reports, the purpose of Beaterator is “music creation.” In that [...]
The Clive Davis Department 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.