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...your home or office or coffee shop--is nothing more than a short-range transmitter-receiver. (Here's a piece of trivia for your next cocktail party: the patent on which Wi-Fi technology is based was filed back in 1942 by actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil.) Wi-Fi uses a frequency long set aside by the FCC for quirky radio devices--the downside being that microwave ovens and some brands of cordless phone can play havoc with the signal...
...consciousness (they dress wildly) and to programming that carefully dilutes the heavy cerebral stuff with forays into alternative worlds informed by rock, jazz, performacne art, and the folk music of various regions. Their concert Saturday, characteristically diverse in its content, comprised nine pieces, by Michael Daugherty. Osvaldo Golijov, George Antheil, Henry Cowell, Raymond Scott, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Part, John Zorn and Scott Johnson...
Following the Golijov was a pair of short pieces from the time of World War I by Antheil and Cowell. Each written when its composer was 19, Antheil's "Lithuanian Night" reflected the influence of Debussy, while Cowell's quite brief "Quartet Euphometric" gave one an impression of little more than its complexly generated rhythms, based on the then-embryonic theories that would mature into his famous treatise New Musical Resources. Kronos is to be commended for resurrecting the works of these, our little-heard but worthy musical forebears...
...GEORGE ANTHEIL. LA FEMME 100 TETES (CRI). Pianist David Albee plays 45 wildly inventive preludes (1933) by the bad boy of American music...
Cabeza de Vaca (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). World premiere of the last work of the late U.S. composer, George Antheil. Based on the travels of the 16th century Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the performance is by the CBS Symphony Orchestra and the Amor Artis chorus...