Hal Newman
Assistant Professor
Survey of the Recording Industry
Artist Management
Commercial Songwriting
Music Publishing
Office: Ezell 107A
Phone: 615.898.2949
Email: hmnewman@mtsu.edu
Web: www.mtsu.edu/~hmnewman
Hal Newman, assistant professor, received his
B.S. degree in music education from Livingston State College,
M.E. from Livingston University and as Ph.D. candidate at Florida
State University studied choral directing with Clayton Krehbiel
and voice with Elena Nikolaidi. He joined the faculty of the young
Recording Industry program at M.T.S.U. in 1981 where he taught
courses in Survey of the Recording Industry, Music Publishing
and Songwriting and was co-founder and faculty advisor of RIM
Writers student organization. He has pursued a full-time music
business career in Nashville since 1985 as leader, primary writer
and front-man for the 11-piece horn band, "Hal Newman and
The Mystics of Time", returning to M.T.S.U. in Spring, 2001.
His songs have been recorded by such diverse
artists as Shirley Caesar ("He's Only a Prayer Away"),
George Strait ("Baby Your Baby" from the movie "Pure
Country"), Lonnie Brooks ("Wound Up Tight") and
the Archers' 1981 Grammy-nominated "Spreadin' Like Wildfire"
as well as published in individual print and printed collections.
In 20 years of writing and recording in Nashville, he has produced
and/or co-produced four projects on the Mystics of Time, numerous
independent projects for others and hundreds of songs for Windy
Holler Music, ASCAP, Prime Time Music, ASCAP and Magnolia Lane
Music, ASCAP.
Before coming to M.T.S.U. in 1981, he taught/directed
high school choruses in Crestveiw, FL, Austell, GA and Mobile,
AL as well as worked as a free-lance writer, contracted recording
artist and background singer in Memphis, TN.
