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Jun 19, 2024 · On today’s date in 1926, avant-garde musical piece Ballet Mechanique, scored for multiple pianos and percussion, had its public premiere at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris. Its composer was a 25-year old American named George Antheil.
19 hours ago · The two Piano Concertos are important first recordings. The first one (1922) pilfers from Petrushka, The Rite and Les noces, veering in and out of Stravinsky at dramatic moments. In the second one (1926) Antheil derives an entire idiom from the great man’s latest works, the Concerto for Piano and Wind and the Sonata and Serenade for piano solo.
Jun 15, 2024 · George Antheil (1900 – 1959): A Jazz Symphony for Piano and Orchestra (1925 – 1927) [revised by Antheil in 1955] Morton Gould (1913 – 1995): Interplay aka American Concertette No. 1
Jun 29, 2024 · Playwright Finds Antheil’s Music Based on America, Africa, and Steel. On Sunday evening, April 11, an audience of more than 3000 people crowded into Carnegie Hall to take part in the birth or death of a new creative force in American music–George Antheil.
5 days ago · George Antheil - George Antheil (; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – music.
Jun 15, 2024 · The 27-year-old Antheil, the younger brother of the acclaimed composer and pianist George Antheil, was on a rushed government mission evacuating sensitive diplomatic pouches from U.S. missions in Tallinn and Riga, Latvia, as it had become clear that Moscow was preparing to swallow up the small Baltic nations.
5 days ago · The eccentric composer Antheil, the "enfant terrible" of the American music scene, had become one of the most famous composers of his time overnight with the celebrated and controversial premiere of his "Ballet Mécanique" in Paris in 1926.
