Concert poster of Leon Kirchner and the Orion Quartet for the Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Visiting Composer Series

The Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Visiting Composer Series was founded in 1993 at the University of Utah as a tribute to the influential conductor and an alternative to the university's recently expired composer-in-residence program. Conceived and coordinated by Morris Rosenzweig, Professor Emeritus in music composition, and partly underwritten by the Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Trust, the series has brought many notable composers to the University of Utah and the greater Salt Lake City community to oversee performances of their works and give lectures and lessons to students. This poster advertises Leon Kirchner's visit and the concert of his works played by the Orion Quartet on January 26, 1995 at the First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City. The poster notes that the composer's residency was underwritten by the R. Harold Burton Foundation.