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	George Antheil (1900 - 1959) - famous George Antheil Classics hit collection and George Antheil Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Carl Johann Antheil was born on 8 July 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of William and Wihelmine Antheil, owners of a small shoe store.
		Antheil began his composition studies at the age of sixteen with Constain von Sternberg, a pupil of Liszt, and later with Ernest Bloch.
		Antheil resonated with the new movement and became involved in the musical-theatre and film music communities in New York.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/29.htm (721 words)

	George Antheil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American composer and pianist of German and Lutheran descent, born in Trenton, New Jersey.
		In the 1930s Antheil's music grew more traditional, but at the same time he found difficulty making a living, and at various times he wrote film scores, conducted a lonely-hearts column, and wrote for Esquire Magazine.
		Antheil was a good friend of writer Jack Woodford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Antheil (507 words)

	George Antheil's Torpedo Patent (Frequency Hopping Invention)
		Antheil supplied the technical expertise for the concept and on Aug. 11, 1942, the two received a United States patent for the use of radio-controlled missiles that could be used against the Germans.
		Antheil’s original idea was admittedly too cumbersome: the punched tapes he suggested (modeled on those of player pianos) could not be synchronized in real life with the degree of precision necessary.
		In one way or another, George was extremely aware of Germany’s military strengths and weaknesses, and so his invention of a military device is thus credible, and highlights his wide-ranging creativity and interests.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /antheil/mainpage/patent.html (591 words)

	Classical Net - Composers - Antheil
		However Antheil's principal calling card from this period is his Ballet Mécanique, composed between 1923 and 1925 to accompany the film of the same name about Fernand Léger, though the two versions were never synchronized together as sound projection was not available for a further three years.
		Antheil inspiration returned towards the end of the war ands he recounts composing much of his Tragic Symphony at his newsdesk.
		Antheil also wrote half a dozen post war operas, which are altogether in a different league.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/acc/antheil.html (1690 words)

	BMOP :: George Antheil
		George Antheil (1900-1959) was an American composerâ”born in Trenton, New Jerseyâ”who began his professional career in Europe, where he was friends with, among many others, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Eric Satie, and Igor Stravinsky.
		Besides composing, Antheil was an excellent writer, an inventor, and a student of many disciplines, including endocrinology, criminal justice, and military history.
		Antheil left Paris in the late 20s and went to Berlin, and then as German society began to fall under the influence of the Nazis, returned permanently to America.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=154 (308 words)

	George Antheil - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	"Not Just Another Pretty Face" Starring: Hedy Lamarr (Bibliography) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Antheil was excited by the fact that player pianos could play faster than any human possibly could and having several synchronized player pianos playing together at the same time seemed to be pushing the limits of music.
		It may not be what Lamarr and Antheil had in mind, but Hedy is glad that she "did something that could be good and useful for people, and for the country, and for the world." Spread spectrum communications is still at the forefront of telecommunications technology.
		She met George Antheil, as musician, at a dinner party and together they patented the "secret communications system." Hedy never received much for her part of the invention because of the unfortunate timing of the government using it after the patent ran out.
	www.hoxie.org /news99/senior99/hedy9.html (4974 words)

	San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Antheil's Ballet mécanique was a work that could only have been conceived in one place and time: the hotbed of revolutionary art and letters that was Paris in the 1920s.
		George Antheil was born July 8, 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of a shoe salesman and a German-born mother.
		Antheil's first year in Europe was spent mostly in Berlin, but at the end of 1923, wanting to be near the man he considered his greatest hero, Stravinsky, he moved to Paris.
	www.americanmavericks.com /prog_notes/june_11.html (3987 words)

	OperaWorld.com's North American Opera Zone: GEORGE ANTHEIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As a composer, George Antheil was as controversial as he was famous.
		Antheil was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Polish and Prussian immigrants.
		Antheil was later quoted as saying that he turned away from the "fluid, diaphanous lechery of the recent French Impressionists" to what he called the "hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous" music of Stravinsky.
	www.operaworld.com /north/transatlantic/antheil.shtml (1939 words)

	George Antheil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Antheil (1900-1959) was an American composer—born in Trenton, New Jersey—who began his professional career in Europe, where he was friends with, among many others, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Eric Satie, and Igor Stravinsky.
		Antheil left Paris in the late '20s and went to Berlin, and then as German society began to fall under the influence of the Nazis, returned permanently to America.
		Read an essay by George Antheil about his future as a composer, which chillingly predicts the response to the Ballet mécanique —; written when he was 16 years old!!
	www.antheil.org /george.html (362 words)

	George Antheil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Antheil, a composer, was born in 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey.
		George was a child prodigy, composing music at a young age.
		George was very angry about Hitler’s influence on European arts and he decided to return to the United States.
	www.gvsu.edu /math/enigma/Lamarr/two.html (148 words)

	Music
		Take, for instance, Antheil's introduction to music as a very young child, living with his parents across the street from the New Jersey State Penitentiary in Trenton, where he was born in 1900.
		As a result, Antheil was a made man, an enfant terrible, or, as he called himself in the title of his highly amusing autobiography, the Bad Boy of Music.
		Antheil became an expert in the field of endocrinology as it relates to criminal behavior.
	www.crisismagazine.com /february2002/music.htm (1348 words)

	Wired 7.11: Blast From the Past
		It was Antheil who sat with Lamarr at her Hollywood Hills estate and sketched out on a napkin the invention - a method of controlling US Navy torpedoes by employing multiple radio frequencies - that would later be called spread spectrum.
		Antheil was not the only composer of his time to be fascinated by the player piano.
		George Gershwin and Sergei Rachmaninoff were among some of the great pianists of the era who left a recorded legacy in the form of reproducing-piano rolls.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/7.11/ballet_pr.html (6569 words)

	ASA/NOISE-CON 2000 Lay Language Papers-Performances of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet mécanique
		Antheil was a young American composer and pianist who arrived in Paris in 1923, and immediately found himself part of a circle inhabited by the greats of European and expatriate avant-garde arts and letters: James Joyce, Stravinsky, Ezra Pound, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Gertrude Stein, and many others.
		Antheil returned to America for good in the early 1930s, and after a while managed to regain some of his reputation as a composer, and was able to make a decent living composing film and television scores.
		Antheil died in 1959, at the age of 58.
	www.acoustics.org /press/140th/Lehrman2.htm (1591 words)

	George ANTHEIL Concert Music: : Film Music on the Web CD Reviews March 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Antheil is remembered by film music enthusiasts for his scores for such films as The Plainsman (1938); Spectre of the Rose (1946); Knock on any Door (1949); In a Lonely Place (1950); and The Pride and the Passion (1957).
		George Antheil was born in Trenton, New Jersey.
		Antheil's Concert Overture, McKonkey's Ferry (1948) was inspired by the image of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware on Christmas Night 1776.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2000/mar00/antheil.htm (665 words)

	American Mavericks: An interview with Paul Lehrman
		George announced the music and he was looking for collaborators to do a film with, and Léger announced the film and was looking for someone to do the music with.
		Antheil was writing the music, and was working with a player piano manufacturer called Pleyel, and the filmmakers were working on their own, and they were working with various models and were getting footage of ordinary people and were putting together their thing in the studio.
		According to Antheil's wife who spoke about it many years later, they put the music and the film together and they discovered the music was twice as long as the film.
	musicmavericks.publicradio.org /features/interview_lehrman.html (5154 words)

	Ron Bierman met and talked to Benjamin Lees
		Antheil didn't think of himself as a teacher, and assisted only the most promising composers.
		When Antheil earlier in his career was studying with Bloch, Bloch stopped accepting a fee when he learned, 'George was depriving himself of food in order to pay for his lessons.'
		Lees said of Antheil, 'We had a relationship which was very much like the old master/apprentice relationship.' Lessons were one to four times a week and lasted one to three hours.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/06/antheil2.htm (398 words)

	The Lost Sonatas of George Antheil - Guy Livingston
		Antheil died suddenly in his fifties, and his music, tarnished by his association with Hollywood and by his tell-all autobiography, was largely forgotten after his death.
		Over the years, historians and catalogers of George Antheil’s music have had to leap a frustrating set of hurdles, the result of Antheil’s memory, which was selective, his business sense, which was bad, and his handwriting, which was worse.
		Antheil cut a unique figure even in that colorful era: A sort of " gangsta" pianist, he is said to have brought a gun with him to each performance, and even claimed to have fired it once or twice when the crowd got out of hand -- which it often did over his controversial music.
	www.guylivingston.com /lostsonatas (2721 words)

	Amazon.com: George Antheil: Bad Boy's Piano Music: Music: George Antheil,Benedikt Koehlen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Antheil has been having a healthy resurgence of interests with performances of his magnum opus Ballet mechanique with Dennis Russell Davies in New York recently and one expected San Francisco with Michael Tilson Thomas.
		Antheil's musical gifts here was he caught the negativity of the age, the transitional period between the Wars,when national hatreds and opposing ideologies began festering in the hearts of men,he was labeled by the French, the Futurist pianist when he gave his solo concerts there in the Twenties.
		Antheil's musical language is fairly one-dimensional except for him rather than representing himself with one seminal work I think you need to here a few to get the full scale of his creativity.
	www.amazon.com /George-Antheil-Boys-Piano-Music/dp/B000007NO6 (1837 words)

	SoundStage! George Antheil - Symphony No. 3; Capital of the World, Tom Sawyer; Hot-Time Dance; McKonkey’s Ferry
		George Antheil is usually considered one of the bad boys among American composers.
		Antheil's Symphony No. 3 was written when he was in his late 30s, and it offers a look at those composers whose influence would remain in his music throughout his career.
		CPO fills out this nice-sounding CD with Antheil’s Tom Sawyer, Hot-Time Dance, McKonkey's Ferry, and Capital of the World, which, while not as interesting as Symphony No. 3, are wonderful in their own right as a pastiche of Americana.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev660.htm (270 words)

	george antheil-del sol featured composer
		It also put Antheil on the American musical map at its 1927 New York premiere, and continues to be the work that defines the public image of George Antheil.
		Antheil is fascinated by the effects of polytonality; one is often reminded of Ives as he simultaneously intones two totally unrelated melodies, or Stravinsky who created a whole personal language by having melody and accompaniment in different keys.
		Although they do not demonstrate Antheil’s capacity to create form or breadth in his work, the Six Little Pieces serve as a wonderful introduction to the harmonic and textural world of George Antheil.
	www.delsolquartet.com /composer/antheil.html (1376 words)

	The Bad Boy of Music: George Antheil \| Music of the World \| Deutsche Welle \| 31.01.2006
		He was feted in Europe in the Roaring Twenties as an exponent of the vibrant music culture from New World: George Antheil (1900-1959), who called himself the "Bad Boy of Music" in his autobiography, embodied an age of cultural self-confidence and a new American self-assertiveness in the arts.
		Antheil was also an inventor (he actually joined forces with actress Hedy Lamarr to invent and patent a radio-directed torpedo), a writer (about matters as diverse as endocrinology and love stories) and something of a perennial student long after his so promising youth.
		Contributing his views and insights into George Antheil in this half hour is the American conductor Hugh Wolff, who leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra on a CD of Antheil’s music.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1879846,00.html (256 words)

	George ANTHEIL Naxos [GH]: Classical Reviews- October 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Antheil is describe in various books as 'The Bad Boy of Music' and that is how the CD booklet describes him and also how he describes himself in his amazingly entertaining autobiography written in 1945.
		Antheil described this as " the fourth dimension in music" but it was also an artistic dead end.
		If Parisian audiences fell out with Antheil in the late '20s easily tiring of the style as it was, in the '40s Americans 'fell in' with him, so to speak.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Oct01/Antheil.htm (1212 words)

	ArkivMusic \| American Classics - Antheil: Ballet Mécanique, Etc /Spalding
		George Antheil's infamous Ballet Mécanique exists in (basically) three versions, the first of which (for lots of synchronized mechanical pianos and percussion) has only recently been premiered and recorded for the first time by the UMass Lowell Percussion Ensemble.
		Antheil clearly recognized that, like Stravinsky's "Rite", the Ballet Mécanique was an artistic dead end, but as this disc proves, he wrote plenty of fine music both before and after it.
		In short, Antheil's neglect is completely unjustified, as this and other fine recordings now appearing on Naxos and CPO clearly demonstrate.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=2377 (452 words)

	George Antheil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The work of George Antheil, the self-proclaimed "bad boy of music," is marked by sustained rhythmic vitality, harmonic pungency, and melodic vigor.
		Born on 8 July 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey, Antheil studied with Constantin von Sternberg, Ernest Bloch, and with Clark Smith at the Philadelphia Conservatory.
		Later, Antheil would adopt neo-romantic and neo-classic elements such as in the Symphonie en fa and Piano Concerto.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/antheil_bio.html (377 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Crank Up the Machine!
		Born in Trenton, N.J., in 1900, Antheil was the post-World War I modernist's modernist.
		Antheil wrote two violin sonatas for Pound's mistress, Olga Rudge, and threw in a drum part for Ezra.
		Antheil later tried to repeat the success in New York, upping the ante with additional pianos, but the machinery went out of control: The siren wouldn't stop wailing and the "propellers" -- actually electric fans -- which were pointed right at the audience, sent hats and hairpieces flying.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-04-25/arts_feature2.html (602 words)

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