![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | George Antheil: Bad Boy of Music-An Intermission Feature in Two Parts - George Antheil
Charles Amirkhanian introduces the amazing music of Trenton-born George Antheil (1900-1959). Antheil (pronounced "ANT-hile") was the first avant-garde American composer to be recognized in Europe and composed the Ballet Mécanique in the mid-Twenties for multiple player pianos and percussion. His life was documented in his 1945 autobiography Bad Boy of Music, still in print in English and German (see http://www.otherminds.org/cgi-bin/shop.cgi/page=index7.html) to locate copies...
Keywords: New Music; Documentary; 20th Century Classical; George Antheil
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