A RAPSODY IN WHITE AND BLACK WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN BY GINA SEBASTIAN ALCALAY: AN OPEN CONFESSIVE NOVEL
A RAPSODY IN WHITE AND BLACK WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN BY GINA SEBASTIAN ALCALAY: AN OPEN CONFESSIVE NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important Romanian memorial novels about the last years of the communist regime in Romania and the immigration of the Romanian musicians in western countries, the book of Gina Sebastian Alcalay, ”Rapsody in black and white with Leonard Bernstein” published in 2010 is a gift for Romanian culture. Eugen Alcalay, her sun, began playing piano at the age of two and composing at the age of eight. At fourteen he was winning a Romanian National Music Competition. In 1980 Eugen Alcalay’s compositions were brought to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who requested a personal meeting and audition in Israel, and after that decided to supervise and sponsor his musical education. Under his sponsorship, Eugen Alcalay began studying piano and composition in Tel Aviv. After that he continued his musical studies in America. Eugen Alcalay was a professor of piano at Azusa Pacific University School of Music. He has graduated The Juilliard School, D.M.A., Piano Performance in 1998 with a Doctoral Document: Thematic Transformation/Continuous Variation in Brahms’ Late Piano Cycles, with Implications for Performance; The Juilliard School, M.M., Piano Performance in 1993; The Juilliard School, M.M., Composition in 1993; The Curtis Institute of Music, Diploma, Composition in 1990; Indiana University School of Music, B.M., Piano Performance in 1988; Indiana University School of Music, B.M., Composition in 1988. Eugen Alcalay had an important teaching experience at: Azusa Pacific University School of Music, Professor between 2015-2019 teaching Applied Studio Piano. Chamber Music. Instrumental Collaboration and Applied Composition. Keyboard Ensemble. Keyboard Literature; at Crescendo Summer Institute, Tokaj, Hungary, Piano Faculty between 2015, 2016 teaching Applied Studio Piano. Chamber Music Coaching; at University of Wisconsin Platteville, Professor between 2005-2015 teaching Applied Studio Piano. Chamber Music. Piano Literature. Piano Pedagogy and Piano Ensemble. Accompanying Class. Piano Techniques. Applied Composition; at Masterworks Festival, USA (Indiana, Ohio) Piano Faculty between 2002-2016 teaching Applied Studio Piano. Chamber Music Coaching; at China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China in 2013 as a Visiting Professor of Piano Master Classes, Applied Studio Piano; at South Central University for Nationalities Wuhan, China between 2013, 2014 in a Short-term residency working with undergraduate piano students; at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Conservatorio de Musica, Bogota, in 2009; at Colombia Artist-in-Residence. Short-term residency working with graduate piano performance students; at Fundacion Universitaria Juan N. Corpas, Bogota, Colombia in 2004 as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Short-term residency sponsored by the Fulbright Commission. Applied Studio Piano. Chamber Music and Composition. Master Classes; at Masterworks Festival Europe, London, UK Piano Faculty in 2004 teaching Piano Master Classes. Applied Studio Piano; at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Conservatorio de Musica, Bogota, in 2003; Colombia, Fulbright Scholar. 5-month position as Visiting Professor of Piano sponsored by the Fulbright Commission. Applied Studio Piano forgraduates and undergraduates. Chamber Music Coaching. Master Classes, Coordinated M.M. Piano Degree Program; at Sixth International Music Festival and School, Bogota, Colombia, in 2000, Piano Faculty, teaching Applied Studio Piano. Chamber Music Coaching; at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA, Assistant Professor of Piano between1999-2005, teaching Applied Studio Piano. Keyboard harmony, form and analysis and Composition. Accompanying. Theory. Chamber Music Coaching and Piano Literature. Piano Pedagogy; at The Juilliard School, Piano Teaching Fellow between 1997-1999.

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