Contemporary American composers have few able defenders, and once out of sight, composers are often forgotten, so it is good to have a biographical tribute, out in November, from University of ...

Midgette writes for the Washington Post. Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in ...

Leon Kirchner, the Brooklyn-born, Pulitzer and Guggenheim Fellowship-winning composer, died on September 17 at the age of 90. Born in 1919, into an immigrant Jewish family in South Brooklyn, Kirchner ...

Leon Kirchner has had a startling career as a professional pianist, a most prominent composer, and now Professor of Music at Harvard. He put this versatility into practice last night in performing ...

Monday night's concert was one of those rare events in which first class artists, with apparently sufficient rehearsal time, conspire to perform a program of substantial modern music that deserves ...

Magnus Lindberg’s “Parada” begins with a slow parade of chords. They are somber but colorful. They move with solemn grace, like ghostly visions floating through a fog. And when you have resonant ...

The great thing about working in academia is that individuals can grow an idea from the ground up. University of Maryland cello professor Evelyn Elsing conceived the Kirchner Project when she heard a ...

Leon Kirchner, the eminent American composer who was also a pianist, a conductor and an influential teacher, died Thursday at his home on Central Park West in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was ...

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 ...