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Mark my words: Columbia will become a hub for arts entrepreneurship.” - USC professor from Pittsburgh
"USC was the first university in the country to have a full-time music entrepreneurship professor. Cutler, who lived in Pittsburgh before coming to USC, emphasized Sunday that not only has the university made entrepreneurship a priority, but also that Columbia has a fertile landscape for arts collaboration — noting that he’s found it much easier to form community partnerships here than he has seen in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. That bodes well long-term, he said." -
Free Times
"The performances — enthusiastically received by a multi-generational, multi-racial and not particularly classically oriented crowd — helped strengthen and solidify Columbia’s status as a hub for new music, a status initiated by USC’s long-running Southern Exposure series and continued by Conundrum Music Hall. Free Times documented Columbia’s proclivity toward such music in a 2011 cover story by Patrick Wall, “The Austin of Indie Classical.” -
Free Times
Conference Puts Musical Entrepreneurship Front and Center - Free-Times.com