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...Harvard Summer School Chamber Players will present Des Paradise and die Perie, an oratorio by Robert Schumenn. Leon Kirchner will conduct. This is the Chamber Players' last concert of the season, and chances are they will finish up at the same high level of quality they've sustained all summer. Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theater...
...write as a result of a particular paragraph in the article by Joseph Straus in the August 12, 1975, issue of The Harvard Crimson. In this paragraph, Mr. Straus states that I "deeply resent Leon Kirchner," and goes on to misquote me as stating. "You give me not the same players, but one class lower (than the Chamber Players) and I'll make concerts musically better than that...
...Chen has a strong belief in the vastness of his own powers. Underlying many of his remarks is a sense that he has not gotten all the recognition that is his due. He deeply resents Leon Kirchner, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, whose Summer School Chamber Players have received substantial support and fanfare from the University. He maintains, "You give me not the same players, but one class lower [than the Chamber Players] and I'll make concerts musically better than that, I assure you." And while he expresses no desire to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic or an orchestra...
Last Monday, this group of talented students and internationally known professionals performed four infrequently heard works with their usual conviction and energy. Leon Kirchner, whose talents as a coach were in evidence throughout the concert, showed himself to be a formidable triple threat by appearing as the pianist in his own Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1954). This piece uses a dissonant, non-tonal vocabulary, articulated in driving rhythms and evocative melodic fragments. The result is an almost Romantic sense of clearly defined broad gestures. Kirchner, along with violinist Donald Weilerstein and cellist Laurence Lesser, responded to these qualities...
...common attitude toward German expressionist artists like Emil Nolde, Ernst Kirchner, Franz Marc, Karl Schmidt-Rottluffor Max Pechstein used to be that their work was a talented but provincial response to French Fauvism...