Word: antheils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Societe Musicale Independante de Paris presented a concert of chamber music by students of Boulanger. In retrospect, the collection of names on the program is a bit fantastic: Copland, Thomson, Elwell, Antheil, Chanler, Piston (whom Time incidentally, then labelled a "rip-roaring cacaphonist...
Died. George Antheil, 58, U.S. composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the '205, George Antheil of Trenton, N.J. became America's Bad Boy of Music (the title of his 1945 autobiography) when he wrote Ballet Mécanique "to warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce...
...Antheil: the Wish (Kentucky Opera Association, Louisville Orchestra conducted by Moritz Bomhard-Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series). A one-act opera, written and composed by a master orchestrator with a surrealist imagination. The plot is wispish and dreamlike, designed to prove that love is eternal. The music is tuneful, often witty and sometimes engrossing, although it shows signs of its creator's glib...
...with a crew cut and a muscular build, Lees was born (1924) of Russian parents in Harbin, China. The family moved to San Francisco the next year, bought the boy a piano when he was seven. Lees studied music for two years at U.S.C., then discovered Composer George Antheil, who led him toward advanced composition along a path strewn with pungent maxims. (Sample: "Do you know the sound of the flute? It's not the silvery thing people talk about. Just remember this: a flute is a virgin...
...Antheil: Ballet Mécanique (New York Percussion Group conducted by Carlos Surinach; Columbia). This notorious composition (written in 1924 for an abstract film) started wild fistfights at its Paris concert premiere and a quieter scandal in Manhattan. Thirty years after, its buzzing doorbells, roaring airplane propellers and four mechanical pianos seem just quaint and noisy. But the work has moments that are actually tender, and is surprisingly convincing...