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...Department also wants to build a special studio for the composition of electronic music in the library's basement. Leon Kirchner, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for a composition involving electronic instruments, proposed the studio and will probably supervise...
...room will start with about $20,000 worth of equipment, including a Buchla electronic console -- capable of producing a variety of tones and pitches -- which Kirchner used in his prize-winning Quartet No. 3. The fund drive will also create a endowment for adding new equipment to the studio...
Faculty members and students in Kirchner's composition seminar will have access to the studio, which Kirchner also intends to use for his own work...
More exciting, however, was Leon Kirchner's Sonata Concentrate. This sonata, composed in 1952, is long, elaborate, and tightly packed; its textures are brilliant and its technical demands high. After a slow and baffling opening it is consistently fast-moving. Street handled all the technical problems of the work with complete ease, and attained a more brilliant tone than before. What had been a solemn and quiet recital became at the end a passionate one as well...
...most satisfying performance of the evening was that of Leon Kirchner's Sinfonia, a dark and powerful work bearing traces of Schoenberg's influence. Kirchner likes to have a lot going on at once. It's difficult to grasp the entire piece on first hearing, but the HRO's performance helped. Conductor James Yannatos directed with clarity and sensitivity, and the orchestra responded nobly, playing difficult passages as cleanly and delicately as one could wish...