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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVeteran music publishing executive Martin Bandier has made a substantial gift to establish a scholarship program at the music-industry program that bears his name at Syracuse University. The scholarship will provide financial support for students from underrepresented populations who are enrolled in the Bandier Program in Recording and Entertainment Industries in the S.I.

Charles Koppelman, whose publishing and talent development vision made him one of the recording industry’s top executives, has died at 82.

After 15 years at Sony/ATV, co-president Danny Strick has left the company. Strick’s departure is part of a number of restructuring moves CEO/president Jon Platt has made since taking over the mantel last April when he replaced longtime chief Martin Bandier.A Sony/ATV representative declined to comment on plans to replace Strick.

Danny Strick, Sony/ATV Music Publishing co-president and a longtime lieutenant of former chairman Martin Bandier, has left the company, Variety has confirmed. Former co-president Rick Krim left the company last year.