The Center For Music and Arts Entrepuenership

Michael Rothchild, the president of Landslide Records, talks about his job and about the state of the music industry today. Click to watch clips from the forum with Michael Rothchild:

Robbie Buchanan, producer, arranger, pianist, talks with students about his career and the many difficulties of the music industry.

Don Marshall, the executive directer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation, talks about his job and about the jazz festival.

Eric Corte, a representative from Saatchi and Saatchi, a prominent advertising agency, talks to Loyola University New Orleans students about music in advertising. He covers the process of securing music for ads, discusses master usage as well as music publishing, licensing, and legal issues. Corte also gives his thoughts on the future of the music business. He comments on the innovative ways companies are marketing music for ads.

Tommy Etzel, an independent DJ, talks about entering the music industry right out of college and some of the problems one might have to face.

Greg Curtis, Executive Creative Director of Fox Music Publishing, Inc., introduces himself and his company to a group of students at Loyola University, New Orleans. He explains what a music publisher does, how Fox works with other companies to license and leverage content, and what Fox is doing to take advantage of new opportunities in streaming music, ringtones, and other emerging technologies.

Infectious Music Industries is a New Orleans based company that does marketing, management, booking, tour management, graphic design, publicity, and street teams for Independent bands. In this segment, they visit Loyola University to talk about the ins and outs of their business.

Dave Neupert is the founder of M80 Interactive Marketing, and acting CEO. M80 specializes in developing online publicity, promotions, and grassroots marketing campaigns for top entertainment properties and consumer brands.

Charles Anthony, a tenor in his fifty-third season with New Yorks Metropolitan Opera, tells an audience at Loyola University, New Orleans the story of how he became a singer, and responds to audience questions about the technique, practice, and history of singing opera.