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...Leon Kirchner, professor of Music, has been elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the highest honor society of the arts in the country...
While virtually all departments persist in their scholastic graduate school oriented philosophy, a careful perusal of the catalogue reveals a considerble number of creative courses, some of which lack any scholarly content whatsoever. Professor Leon Kirchner's Seminar in Composition (Music 268), for example, avoids any attempt to teach musical composition to the scholar for use in analyzing other composers' works. Its purpose is quite frankly to teach a creative art. The same probably holds true for English composition courses although the instructors of these courses are singularly unsure of just what their real purpose...
...point of fact, only three or four of Mr. Feininger's approximately 35 students concentrate in Fine Arts, the rest dabble; probably none of Mr. Kirchner's present students will become professional composers; and English composition courses (particularly English C) are thoroughly infused with dilettantes...
...Earthly Daemon." Paint them he did, with a vehemence and crash of color that soon won him the esteem of fellow painters. He was invited to join Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others in a group of younger revolutionary artists called die Brücke (the Bridge), who had set up shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although...
...Kirchner's Sinfonia and Piano Concerto were first performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...