In: announcements| events
5 Oct 2009We’re super happy this October to be hosting Grammy-nominated musician, songwriter and creative entrepreneur Pete Wentz for our Music Entrepreneurship Series.
Illinois-born Pete Wentz serves as bassist, lyricist and co-founder of the phenomenally successive pop-punk band Fall out Boy. Fall Out Boy’s five studio albums, distributed on indie label Fueled by Ramen and major label Island [...]
In: announcements| events| motown u
3 Oct 2009The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU is proud to have the great performer-songwriter-producer Leon Ware residing with us in the department this week, in conjunction with our ongoing Motown U conversation series.
For the uninitiated, the Detroit born Mr. Ware is one of the great under-appreciated songwriters and [...]
In: announcements| events| motown u
3 Oct 2009An Audio Engineering Society New York Convention Special Event:
Leon Ware – The Songwriter and Producer Behind Marvin Gaye’s Classic Album I Want You
presented with The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music
Motown U | Record Label Series
Friday October 9, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
at The Jacobs K. Javits Center, 655 West 34th Street
Released in 1976, Marvin [...]
In: announcements| events| motown u| news
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 [...]
Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music instructor Vivien Goldman, who’s blessed us with innovative classes on Punk music, Reggae, and the history of Island Records, wrote a feature on multicultural British rock trio The Noisettes in today’s New York Times. You can read it here.
Vivien (pictured above on the left teaching a class, with famed [...]
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: 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 [...]
Starting February 2010, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music will be inaugurating a new intensive 12-week workshop for high school students, called Future Music Moguls.
This innovative new workshop program is designed to introduce talented high school juniors to all aspects of the contemporary music business – including songwriting, production, marketing, promotion, publicity, branding and [...]
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 [...]
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.