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Monday night's concert was one of those rare events in which first class artists, with apparently sufficient rehearsal time, conspire to perform a program of substantial modern music that deserves their skills. Directed by Leon Kirchner, musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and from Harvard gave the first Boston performance of Kirchner's Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 Winds, and Percussion, and a concert reading of Stravinsky's ballet, Les Noces...
...Kirchner's Concerto, commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and completed in 1960, is a vast rhapsody. Like a long cadenza, it exploits constant shifts of timbre, pace, and loudness. A recognizable motif stated at the beginning of the first of the two movements is repeated later by the French horn; aside from that recurrence, little apparent form but great passion animates the work...
...times, striking combinations of timbres stand out: for example, the violin, the large gong, and an open, bottom C on the cello; or again the celeste, Violin, and the clarinet. At other times, the solo violin and cello luxuriate in close and shifting harmonies. Elsewhere, Kirchner indulges in bombastic percussion: a fast run in the clarinet or strings leads to a bang...
...Leon Kirchner will conduct a performance by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a group of Harvard musicians in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The concert will include works by Kirchner, Schubert, and Stravinsky. A few tickets will be available at the door...
ANDRE DERAIN-Hutton, 41 East 57th St. Forty-four bronzes by a painter who sculpted for fun. Also at Hutton: a groupt of German expressionist painters, including Gabriele Münter, Ernst Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky. Through...