MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — For the third straight year, MTSU's Department of Recording Industry is part of an international list
of acclaimed music schools praised by The Hollywood Reporter that includes
Juilliard, Berklee and London's Royal College of Music.
The department is No.
18 on the magazine's "Top 25 Music Schools 2016," which is online at http://ow.ly/sEO0306Bz40 and in the Dec.
2 edition of the publication.
The Reporter’s
editors, who compiled the list, urge music hopefuls to consider an education
with one of the included institutions, noting that “for many, music schools
can, at the very least, provide the necessary experience and training to help
navigate a particularly cutthroat industry.”
The MTSU listing
mentions the plethora of live musical performances presented each year by the
university’s School of Music, which
collaborates with the Department of Recording Industry on a "music
industry" minor concentration that allows students to minor in
music-industry entrepreneurship or recording industry.
The Department of
Recording Industry, which is part of the College of Media and Entertainment at
MTSU, focuses less on live public performances and more on bringing songwriters,
producers, engineers and other music-industry experts to campus for public and
student discussions and hands-on demonstrations of their craft.
“It was so
exciting to learn that MTSU's recording industry program has made The Hollywood
Reporter's list for the third consecutive year,” said department chair Beverly Keel.
“We’ve worked hard
to offer our students a world-class education, and this is validation that we
are on the right track. It is such an honor to be included on this prestigious
list with schools such as Juilliard, Yale and Columbia."
The Hollywood
Reporter, which regularly ranks entertainment-industry programs at universities
around the world for their educational quality and students' preparedness for
jobs, lauded MTSU’s recording industry program in its "Top 25 Music
Schools” lists for 2014 and 2015.
This year’s accolade
also mentions multi-award-winning alumnus George
S. Clinton, who praises the university’s “incredible communication
department” for its music as well as news media training for students.
Clinton, a 1969
alumnus, is the man behind the music of the “Austin Powers” film series, “Mortal
Kombat” and the second and third “Santa Clause” films, among many. He currently
chairs the Film Scoring Department at Boston’s Berklee College of Music,
for which he also offers accolades in the list’s No. 8 spot.
"They have an
incredible communication department, a mass communication division that
encompasses not only music in terms of writing music for media, but also
journalism, television production and production for media," Clinton said
of MTSU.
Recording industry
undergrad majors in the College of Media and Entertainment at MTSU can focus on
audio production, commercial songwriting or music business. A Master of Fine
Arts degree in recording arts and technologies prepares MTSU graduate students
for advanced work in audio production, recording and integrated electronic
media.
Almost 20 MTSU
alumni or former students and faculty from around the university have been
nominated for Grammy Awards in the last five years, and seven have won Grammys
so far. The annual Country Music Association Awards regularly include
nominations for MTSU-trained professionals, including several repeat contenders.
Nominations for
the 59th annual Grammy Awards will be announced Tuesday, Dec. 6. The Grammy
ceremony will be held Sunday, Feb. 12, at Los Angeles’ Staples Center.
You can learn more
about MTSU’s recording industry program, part of the College of Media and
Entertainment, at http://www.mtsu.edu/recording-industry.
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