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...Leon Kirchner is little known outside an energetic circle of highbrow musicians, but he is one of the most promising U.S. composers. At 35 he has won his share of prizes, among them a $5,000 award from the University of California, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award, a Walter W. Naumburg Foundation award, two Guggenheim fellowships, the imposing New York Music Critics Circle award...
Last week Composer Kirchner. an associate professor of music at U.S.C., added a new plum to his rich pudding: he was named a full professor at California's up-to-date Mills College, whose faculty already includes famed French Composer Darius Milhaud...
...York City embroidery manufacturer, Leon Kirchner astounded his piano teacher by the time he was nine, was appearing in recitals and concerts at 14. But his mother wanted him to be a doctor, and he dutifully set out on a scientific education in Los Angeles (where the family moved in 1928). But music had him beguiled, particularly after he first heard compositions by Arnold Schoenberg. "A lecturer had described Schoenberg's work, all about the twelve-tone scale. As I listened I became frightened-afraid that if I listened to this strange music I might never be the same...
String Quartet No. 1, by the University of Southern California's Leon Kirchner, 34, is both attractive to the ear in its warmth and strength and stimulating in its complexity. Its closest musical relative is Bartok, but its fading repetitions, its wistful interludes and its snarling climaxes are thoroughly individual in effect. Another, Quartet in B-flat, by Guggenheim Fellow Andrew Imbrie, is packed with up-to-date invention and energy, but it is an undergraduate work (1942), shies clear of the more ardent expression that the 32-year-old composer dares today...
...HENRY L. KIRCHNER Bellevue, Texas...