Leon Kirchner News
American composer (1919-2009)
- piano
- classical music, opera
- United States of America
- composer, music teacher
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2022-05-19 05:07:00
Opalescent (CD review)
[…] – I couldn’t count on either, yet, but they were there somewhere. I had this idea to ‘do’ Glenn Gould, but with no perversity; which is like saying you want a roast beef sandwich without the roast beef.”“Then he [Sebõk] said, ‘To show love for someone, but not to feel that love’ – long pause – ‘that is the work of Mephistopheles.’”“Most of my attention was consumed with a new piece by the eighty-something composer Leon Kirchner, a sort-of-sonata for violin and piano. It was clear that this piece was a struggle, representing so much love, so much of Leon’s life’s work… Leon worked with us for hours and hours in humid Marlboro rooms. He described his wife, who had just died of cancer, as a ‘rare butterfly,’ and there were moments in the middle of the piece certain fermatas, moments where the harmonies did in fact hover, and alight, as […]
2021-09-30 06:33:35
From letters by Edna St Vincent Millay and Emily Dickinson to pictures by women artists, composer Juliana Hall's inspirations are highly diverse in this disc of four of her song cycles
[…] Theme in Yellow uses a more varied selection of texts, all poems on the theme of Autumn but with a concentration of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) whilst the final cycle on the disc, Cameos sets lovely aphoristic texts by the singer on this disc, Molly Fillmore. Hall seems to have been destined for song from the outset, she studied at Yale as a piano major, having composition lessons 'for fun', where her composition teachers included Martin Bresnick, Leon Kirchner, and Frederic Rzewski and it was partly at their urging that she moved to composition full time. Then she studied with Dominick Argento, himself a very fine song composer, at the University of Minnesota, where she received a commission for a cycle for Dawn Upshaw in 1989 What is remarkable is that Hall's voice throughout all the songs seems to remain remarkably consistent. She writes in an intelligently complex tonal style, her vocal lines […]
2021-09-18 05:19:00
Classical Music News of the Week, September 18, 2021
[…] Paul Wiancko, Kenji Bunch, and Judd Greenstein; Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht opens the program.https://www.salastina.org/save-these-datesAmerican Youth Symphony’s Opening Night Concert, Saturday, September 25, at 7 p.m., UCLA's Royce Hall, featuring Carlos Izcaray’s Geometric Unity, Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4.Pay what you can. Tickets available now.https://www.aysymphony.org/2021-22-season/Invitation: Los Angeles Master Chorale’s Welcome Back Concert for L.A.Saturday, September 25, at 2 p.m. and Sunday, September 26, at 7 p.m; featuring works by L.A.-based composers Nilo Alcala and Shawn Kirchner, “Together at Last” from Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Reena Esmail, Morten Lauridsen’s rendition of Sure on This Shining Night, and many more.https://lamasterchorale.org/invitation--Lisa Bellamore, Crescent CommunicationsOrion Continues in Nov. with Beethoven, Hindemith, Price, SchubertThe Orion Ensemble, with guest violist Stephen Boe, continues its 29th season with performances featuring works by Beethoven, Hindemith, Price and Schubert at three venues: New England Congregational Church in Aurora, IL (Nov. 7, followed by a wine and cheese benefit), PianoForte Studios […]
2021-09-18 05:19:00
Classical Music News of the Week, September 18, 2021
[…] Paul Wiancko, Kenji Bunch, and Judd Greenstein; Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht opens the program.https://www.salastina.org/save-these-datesAmerican Youth Symphony’s Opening Night Concert, Saturday, September 25, at 7 p.m., UCLA's Royce Hall, featuring Carlos Izcaray’s Geometric Unity, Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4.Pay what you can. Tickets available now.https://www.aysymphony.org/2021-22-season/Invitation: Los Angeles Master Chorale’s Welcome Back Concert for L.A.Saturday, September 25, at 2 p.m. and Sunday, September 26, at 7 p.m; featuring works by L.A.-based composers Nilo Alcala and Shawn Kirchner, “Together at Last” from Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Reena Esmail, Morten Lauridsen’s rendition of Sure on This Shining Night, and many more.https://lamasterchorale.org/invitation--Lisa Bellamore, Crescent CommunicationsOrion Continues in Nov. with Beethoven, Hindemith, Price, SchubertThe Orion Ensemble, with guest violist Stephen Boe, continues its 29th season with performances featuring works by Beethoven, Hindemith, Price and Schubert at three venues: New England Congregational Church in Aurora, IL (Nov. 7, followed by a wine and cheese benefit), PianoForte Studios […]
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