Word: kirchners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Works of New England Composers--Berger, De Tredici and Kirchner. At First And Second Church, Boston at 8. Tickets at $6, 5 and 4. Call 785-0133 for details...
...contemporary works, performs new compositions by Harvard composers Cacioppo, Cardora and Wissmuller, in a free concert on Saturday at Holmes Hall, North House. Masterworks Chorale presents a festival of "Music of Our Time" on Sunday, including works of New England composers Arthur Berger, David Del Tredici and Leon Kirchner. This should be a very interesting recital, especially since Berger and Del Tredici will participate in the performance of their own works. The concert takes place at First and Second Church, Boston, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6.5 and 4 and information is available...
...Leon Kirchner, Rosen Professor of Music and one of the judgest in the contest, said yesterday the text and the music will receive equal weight in the judges' decision. "Musicians never separate the music from the Iyric. Good music is good music," Kirchner said...
...capture the stripped essence of reality, the elemental alone, is the goal of these works. Kirchner's Reclining Nude by the Rocks (1912) shapes in six sweeping strokes a woman lying before stones. The style reduces the forms to their common denominators and merges them into one totality. This unity of the human body with nature was one of the major themes that Kirchner sought a style to express. "Developing a calligraphic style is just as difficult as learning to walk," Kirchner wrote. A drawing such as his large Nude on a Bed (1908), one of the highlights...
Meidner's work may well have seemed prophetic in hindsight. After the war, his images captured the German experience all too effectively. His work seemed to presage the new preoccupation with social criticism. Grosz, for example, never could have believed, as Kirchner did, that "an artist's drawings will never be superfluous since they have that which is the essence of art--beauty beyond purpose or morality." Drawings such as Grosz's Christ with a Gas Mask (1928), or The Gratitude of the Fatherland (1920) are both purposeful and moralistic. Grosz even used the codified morality of Christian iconography...