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Lyle John Greenfield (born July 30, 1947) is an American music production executive and past president of the national board of the [1] Association of Music Producers.
Greenfield was born in Rochester, New York. He attended St. Margaret Mary grammar school, graduated from Irondequoit High School in 1965; graduated Bowling Green University (Ohio) in 1969 after which he moved to New York City, NY.
Greenfield is the founder of Bang, a New York-based music production company.
In 1969, Greenfield began his career as a copywriter at JWT in New York. He remained at the agency until 1979, creating advertisements for Ford and other accounts. In that same year, he purchased seventy-four acres of land in Bridgehampton, NY, planting a small vineyard of primarily Chardonnay vines. (On that site, Greenfield built The Bridgehampton Winery [2] in 1982 and produced the first varietal wines from the South Fork of Long Island until selling the enterprise to Peter Carroll of Lenz Winery [3] in 1995. In 1980 he joined Compton Advertising (which was subsequently acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi) as a senior vice president and creative director on the Jeep account.
After four years he left the ad agency business and joined a New York music production company, Tom Anthony Music. Four years later, in 1989, Greenfield started Bang Music, sharing studio and office space with Caliope Productions in Midtown Manhattan. He moved the company to 16 West 18th Street in New York's Flatiron District in 1993.
In June 2004 Greenfield formed a “527” political organization, This Vote Counts, [4] for the purpose of producing and airing television advertisements for the Democratic Presidential Campaign.
In 2013 Greenfield helped organize the AMP Awards for Music and Sound. The inaugural ceremony, held in New York City, attracted over 400 professionals from the music, advertising and entertainment industries.
In 2014 he began writing a monthly column called "Earwitness" for the online production magazine SHOOT.
In 2010 Greenfield married Mary Jane Hantz, a teacher and administrator in the dual-language program at Southampton Elementary in Southampton, NY. The couple resides in Amagansett on eastern Long Island and in Manhattan. He is a frequent contributor to the Commentary section of The East Hampton Star [5] newspaper.
Suffolk County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York. It comprises the eastern two-thirds of Long Island, bordered to its west by Nassau County, to its east by Gardiners Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, to its north by Long Island Sound, and to its south by Great South Bay.
Bridgehampton is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on the South Fork of Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 1,756 at the 2010 census.
Hampton Bays is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Southampton in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York. It is considered as part of the region of Long Island known as The Hamptons. The population was 13,603 at the 2010 census.
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Southampton, officially the Town of Southampton, is a town in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, partly on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the town had a population of 69,036. Southampton is included in the stretch of shoreline prominently known as The Hamptons.
Remsenburg is a hamlet located in the Town of Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.
Lyle Neff is a Canadian poet and journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Ross School is a private K-12 school located on 63 acres in the Town of East Hampton, on Long Island, New York, United States. Named after her late husband Steven J. Ross, the school was founded in 1991 by Courtney Sale Ross as a girls-only day school for their daughter Nicole and several of her friends. The original pre-nursery, nursery, and pre-kindergarten programs were discontinued in September 2020. Ross School transitioned to a co-ed boarding school in 2002 after its founder discontinued private funding. Students in grades 6-12 may board five days per week or full-time. The school has supplemented its budget by catering breakfast and lunch from its café to the Bridgehampton School and offering culinary arts and landscaping classes to East Hampton High School students.
BANG is a music and audio post production company based in New York City, with office and studios in Prague, which creates original music and provides music supervision, sound design and audio production services for advertising, entertainment and interactive media.
Graham Fink is a Multimedia artist and one of the world's most awarded creatives.
Darragh Park was an American Artist, and the literary executor of the estate of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet James Schuyler. Perhaps best known for his book cover illustrations, Park painted landscapes as well as cityscapes in the style of Fairfield Porter. He was based in Bridgehampton, NY and his works were on exhibit at the Parrish Art Museum. and at the Guild Hall in East Hampton.
Southampton Union Free School District is a public school district located in the Town of Southampton on Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York, United States.
Bridgehampton Union Free School District is a public school district located in the Town of Southampton on Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is roughly co-extensive with the hamlet of Bridgehampton, but also serves parts of Noyack, unincorporated Sag Harbor, and unincorporated Sagaponack.
Norman Jaffe was an American architect widely noted for his contemporary residential architecture, and his "strikingly sculptural beach houses" on Eastern Long Island, in southeastern New York. He is credited with pioneering the "design of rustic Modernist houses in the Hamptons", and with being an innovator in using natural materials and passive solar forms of design, and urban design.
Jack Albert Youngerman was an American artist known for his constructions and paintings.
Robert K. Futterman was the founder, chairman & chief executive officer of Robert K. Futterman & Associates, a retail leasing, investment sales and consulting services real estate firm. Futterman has been noted as one of the most prominent and powerful names in Manhattan retail and has personally completed real estate transactions in excess of $10 billion. He has helped revitalize Manhattan neighborhoods including Union Square, the Meatpacking District, Times Square, 34th Street, Fifth Avenue, the Plaza District, and Soho.
Citarella Gourmet Market commonly referred to as Citarella is a chain of upscale grocery stores operating in New York and Connecticut. Founded in 1912, the company initially specialized in seafoods in New York City, and has ever since expanded into the field of gourmet food operating in affluent locations. Citarella currently operates 8 markets and 2 wine stores. The locations currently include Upper West Side, Upper East Side, West Village in Manhattan; East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Southampton on Long Island; as well as one food and wine market in Greenwich, Connecticut. In January 2023, they announced a new location to open in Westhampton Beach, New York. Since 1983, Citarella is owned by Joseph 'Joe' Guerra.