Faculty Biography
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Name: Harvey Rachlin
Title: Coordinator, Music Internships/Music Management
Department: Music
Building: Music
Room: 30
Phone: 914-323-7204
Email: rachlinh@mville.edu
Degrees:
Harvey Rachlin is the coordinator of the music management program at Manhattanville College. Students in Professor Rachlin’s classes have interned at Broadway companies, MTV, SNL, and almost every other major entertainment company. Popular courses are copyright law and recording and broadcasting.
[Newsday Photo/Ken Spencer]
Professor Rachlin is also a prolific author, and has published 11 books on various subjects such as the entertainment industry, guides for aspiring songwriters, history, and art history. A description of all his books can be found here. In 1998, one of his books, Lucy’s Bones, Sacred Stones, and Einstein’s Brain, inspired a miniseries on the History Channel called History’s Lost and Found. The show received the highest ratings ever for a miniseries on the History Channel and was turned into a regular primetime television series. It is now in syndication in the United States and in many countries around the world.
Professor Rachlin’s most recent book, published April 2007, is titled, Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis: A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales. His website describes this book as “a recounting of riveting and often little-known episodes that (are associated with) famous paintings. In devising a way to come up with original true stories about these masterpieces, he may have pioneered a new literary genre, the "art tale." The U.K. edition of the book will be published the week of 7/30/07.
“I could not have written this book without the resources of the Manhattanville Library,” said Professor Rachlin. “The librarians were very helpful and aided me in tracking down all sorts of hard to find eighteenth and nineteenth century research materials.” Soon after Scandals was published in the U.S., he was contacted by the Wall Street Journal who commissioned an essay from him for the Arts & Leisure section in June 2007. Professor Rachlin chose to write an art tale for the newspaper about Botticelli's famous painting "Venus and Mars." This article as well as more information about Professor Rachlin's projects, can be found on his website http://www.harveyrachlin.com/index.htm. Soon to be posted will be his latest newspaper article on art tales, coming out in the entertainment magazine of the London Times on 8/5/07.