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...Gardner's next season opens on September 24, when the museum's own chamber orchestra will be joined by conductor and Harvard's Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner for Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491. Levinson is scheduled to return as soloist in the Mozart...
Department of Music. The Harvard Group for New Music performs works by Kirchner, Tuli, Taddie, Clingan, Koczela and Rindfleisch. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m. Free...
...Baby Richard'' Re-igniting a furor over the finality of adoptions and the rights of biological parents, the Illinois Supreme Court decided for the second time in a year that 3 12-year-old ``Baby Richard'' be taken from his adoptive parents and returned to his biological father Otakar Kirchner. Kirchner, who has never met his son, began fighting for custody shortly after the baby's birth. He has since married the baby's mother, who put the baby up for adoption and initially led him to believe the baby had died. U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens rejected...
...Kirchner and Rosalie set out to present a Ring that ignored the political -- mostly Marxist -- approach that has been popular in Europe over the past two decades. Reacting especially to Patrice Chereau's influential 1976 production, set in the Industrial Revolution, the team rejected polemics in favor of a more classical approach. But they failed to come up with an alternative vision. The modest strength of this Ring is that it leaves the audience with scope to listen and think; the weakness is that the stage is empty of ideas or inspiration...
...Instead, Kirchner and Rosalie offer what is basically a high-tech light show -- perhaps the trendiest and most threadbare gambit now popular in Europe. Some of the stage pictures are inspired, like the glassy, green, undulating * plates that suggest the forest in Siegfried, but too often the choices seem arbitrary. In addition, Kirchner's stage maneuvers are inept. Time and again the cast is left singing directly to the audience -- just like the bad old days when operas were turned into stiff pageants. Some awkward direction will be corrected next year. Bayreuth stages no new productions of Wagner's other...