The Tennessean notes that Belmont University’s Ocean Way Studios “has been recognized for work on the Sheryl Crow album C’mon C’mon.” Here’s the link – scroll down. The recording studio received the TEC Award at the 19th Annual Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards last month in New York.
Frodo vs. Harry Potter
The Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator, a website about all things Harry Potter, notes an upcoming lecture at Belmont University by Dr. Amy Sturgis comapring the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling. Dr. Sturgis will discuss how Tolkien and Rowling brought what was originally a children’s genre into the realm of adult themes, including death and bereavement, prejudice, change, and choice.
Belmont’s Ocean Way Studio Makes News With Award
Nashville Business Journal mentions a prestigious award given to Belmont University’s Ocean Way Nashville recording story.
Belmont Debate Team Finishes Second in Recent Tournament
Belmont University’s speech and debate team finished 2nd overall to current national champion Western Kentucky University at a speech and debate tournament in Owensboro, Kentucky, last weekend. Twenty Belmont students competed in Parliamentary Debate and Individual Speech events.
Accounting prof quoted in business paper on mergers
Dr. Jane Finley, associate dean at Belmont University’s Massey Graduate School of Business and assistant professor of accounting, is quoted in a Nashville Business Journal story about the merger of some local accounting firms:
Belmont’s Ocean Way Studio Receives Major Technical Award
October 29, 2003 – Belmont University’s Ocean Way Nashville recording studio has received a TEC Award, presented by Mix magazine and the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio. The awards were presented at the 19th Annual Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards, sponsored by Mix magazine, October 11 at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel’s Broadway Ballroom. The TEC creative award for record production was for work on Sheryl Crow’s album C’mon C’mon.
Ocean Way Nashville, also was recently named the Top Country Recording Studio, as announced in the September 27, 2003 edition of Billboard magazine, the fourth straight year Ocean Way Nashville has won that designation.
Belmont University acquired Ocean Way Nashville, an 1850’s-era church-turned-recording studio, in 2001, making it part of the school’s fast-growing recording and music business program. Ocean Way also continues to operate as a commercial studio. Among the big hits recorded there recently: Darryl Worley’s “Have You Forgotten?,” Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” Joe Nichol’s “Brokenheartsville” George Strait’s “She’ll Leave You With A Smile,” and Tim McGraw’s “Unbroken.”
Also this year, Ocean Way Nashville was named Nashville’s Best Studio by Music Row Magazine, based on votes by subscribers.
The photo shows Belmont University music business professor Wes Bulla (center, rear) and the staff of Belmont’s Ocean Way Nashville recording studio showing off their 2003 TEC Award. From Left to right: Engineers: Leslie Richter, Bryan Graban, Julie Brakey; Director: Wesley Bulla; Exec. Asst: Heather Kerr; Tech. Engineer: Sal Greco; Manager: Sharon Corbitt; Accountant: April Presley
Paper profiles Belmont grad’s innovative music/PE program for kindergarteners
The Tennessean reports on a Belmont University alumnus who is integrating PE and music in an innovative way for kindergarteners.
Born out of necessity, Battle Ground Academy’s kindergarten music movement class has found a meaningful way to blend music and physical education each day for its youngest students.
Raines Discusses Declining MBA Enrollments
Dr. Patrick Raines, dean of Belmont University’s College of Business Administration, discusses why enrollment in MBA programs is down at many schools, in this article in the Oct. 26 Tennessean.
A sluggish hiring environment made some potential students reluctant to leave their jobs, said Pat Raines, dean of Belmont University’s College of Business Administration, which includes the Massey Graduate School of Business.
”On top of everything else, we know the 25- to 34-year-old demographic is declining so there are going to be fewer applicants,” he said, adding that incomes in that age bracket fell by 14% between 2000 and 2002.
Curb Center Fills Void in Nashville Venues Menu
The Tennessean profiles the new Curb Event Center at Belmont University, noting that it fills a void in Nashville’s array of concert venues:
It’s not an arena, and it’s not a theater. Instead, the Curb Event Center at Belmont University is intended to sit in a sweet spot between the gargantuan buildings that house Rolling Stones concerts and professional hockey games and the intimate venues that draw well-known but not stadium-filling music shows.
“It has the potential to fill a void,” said Greg Oswald of the William Morris Agency, a company that books talent into venues. “In Nashville, we don’t have anything close to that size.”
The Curb Center – which opens Nov. 7 with the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats and which also will be home to the Belmont basketball team and to other university activities – can be configured to seat between 2,400 and 6,000 people for concerts. That’s bigger than the historic Ryman Auditorium and smaller than Gaylord Entertainment Center.
“We’re very much interested in being competitive,” said Jeff Hunter, the Curb Center’s general manager. “If we had four buildings like the Gaylord center here, it would be good for no one. But we have a great diversity in Nashville venues.”
The first music concert at the $52 million facility will be a Christmas show starring Amy Grant and Vince Gill, on Nov. 28-29. In previous years the concert was at the Gaylord Entertainment Center.
Pam Matthews, general manager of the Ryman, said the Curb Event Center could help increase the number of shows coming to Nashville.
“It could fill a gap that we have here,” Matthews said. “The Opry House capacity is about the same as Curb, but the Opry House availability is limited because the Opry is there on weekends. So, this could be a good thing. I don’t look at the Curb Center as competition, because concert promoters in Nashville are close: We don’t cannibalize each others’ acts. We all get along, and I’m sure the Curb Center will fit in with that.”
Dr. Cornwall Quoted in Minneapolis Paper on Entrepreneurship
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University, is quoted in a recent story on entrepreneurship in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, focusing on how young entrepreneurs are seeking to create their own job security, and how colleges are helping them do it.
“Keeley is an example of a multigenerational shift in how young people regard entrepreneurship, said Jeff Cornwall, former chairman of St. Thomas’ entrepreneurship department who now holds the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville.
Cornwall met tremendous resistance when he started an entrepreneurial program in the University of Wisconsin system in the 1980s, he said. “Students were afraid to tell classmates they were thinking about doing this,” he said. “Parents would call me, furious about putting these notions into their children’s minds.”
Stung by a generation of layoffs, however, parents began viewing the field as legitimate. Meanwhile, there was an explosion of college entrepreneurship courses.
In 1970, 16 entrepreneurial courses were offered at various business schools nationwide. By April 2003, when Entrepreneur magazine ranked college entrepreneurship courses, it had 700 to choose from – from single classes to full degree programs.
Students now can join entrepreneurial clubs and live in dorms dedicated to like-minded peers. Graduates are supported by mentors, networking groups and online peer chat rooms.
Dr. Cornwall publishes a weblog on entrpreneurialism, called The Entrepreneurial Mind, at http://forum.belmont.edu/cornwall
