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Member Profile George Antheil 
George Antheil
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| George Antheil (pronounced "ANN-tile") is an intriguing and magnetic character. He went straight from Trenton at age 22 to overnight success in Europe as a concert pianist and a revolutionary composer. Quite simply, for a brilliant moment he was the avant-garde in music, with such aggressive and mechanically inspired pieces as the Ballet Mecanique and the Airplane Sonata. He knew everyone who was anyone in the European avant-garde, and they all couldn't help but know him. Antheil's subsequent career was perhaps less obviously spectacular but surely every bit as unusual. He settled in Hollywood as a writer of scores for film and television, and he also found time to write prolifically on a variety of topics from endocrinology to military doctrine. His autobiography, Bad Boy of Music, remains one of the most entertaining first-hand accounts of the early Twentieth-Century musical avant-garde. Among his less-predictable accomplishments was the development of a patented torpedo-control device in collaboration with the actress Hedy Lamarr. Both popular and scholarly interest in Antheil's work and life have been growing rapidly over the last decade. In part this is because the quality of his work has been somewhat obscured by its notoriety, and it is now being rediscovered for its own sake. But the renewed interest is also due to Antheil's unique position as a lens for viewing the artistic, cultural, and even political unfolding of the first half of the Twentieth Century. It is difficult to look at Antheil's life today and not wonder, what is our avant-garde now? Who might our Antheils be? And so it is only appropriate that, in celebrating Antheil, we bring together in one place some of the most innovative and imaginative people working in our midst today. |
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| Event : My 108th Birthday Description : Date : 2008-06-08 08:00:00 | Event : Cygnus Ensemble in Concert Description : Cygnus Ensemble, March 8th at Weill<br /><br />Pre-Raphaelite II Featuring The Creation, A Townley Mystery Play a chamber opera by Frank Brickle; Electric Counterpoint, with 15 live guitars by Steve Reich; with works by Biscardi, Lang, Wilson, Coughlin, Anderson Date : 2008-03-08 20:30:00 |
