Word: leone
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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...
Guest violinist Donald Weilerstein of the Cleveland String Quartet is back making a guest appearance with the group again this summer, and will perform in Schumann's rarely heard piano quartet. Also light works of Weber Leon Kirsohner, music professor at Harvard and director of the Chamber players...
Stalin murdered millions, but seldom assassinated to enforce foreign policy. It might be argued that the elimination of Leon Trotsky in his Mexican exile in 1940 was an act of policy, but he was a Russian. A better example was the death of Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948, a defenestration that the official report described as suicide but was almost surely an act of the Kremlin...
During the time chronicled in these notebooks (expertly edited by Leon Edel), Wilson was merely Bunny Wilson, a bright, pompous young writer among other writers in Greenwich Village. He supported himself with work at Vanity Fair, where the staff sometimes played a game with the secretaries called "The Rape of the Sabine Women," and later became an associate editor of the more staid New Republic. By day, he reviewed the best of his contemporaries. After hours, he saw them not quite at their best: E.E. Cummings lying in a bathtub maliciously imitating John Dos Passes' speech impediment; Dorothy Parker...
...student said that, in a special meeting with Cheever and Dr. Leon Eisenberg, current chairman of the admissions committee, preceding the faculty meeting, and in the faculty meeting itself, a group of first year students tried to get the entire report tabled...