Spotlight on George Antheil, June 22, 2003, 5-7pm

All Compositions by George Antheil
Format: Piece (year composed) - album - performer - label

Fireworks (1919)- Bad Boy’s Piano Music - Benedikt Koehlen, piano - Col Legno

Profane Waltzes II (1919) - Bad Boy’s Piano Music - Benedikt Koehlen, piano - Col Legno
Lithuanian Nights (1919) - Fighting the Waves - Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber - RCA Victor

Second Sonata, “The Airplane” (1922) - Piano Music - Herbert Henck, piano - ECM New Series
Symphony for 5 Instruments, Second Version, Mvts I, III (1924) - Ballet Mécanique - Phildelphia Virtuousi Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Spalding - Naxos
Jazz Sonata (1922/23) - Piano Music - Herbert Henck, piano - ECM
A Jazz Symphony (1923-25) - Fighting the Waves - Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber - RCA Victor

Violin Sonata no. 1, mvt 4 (1923) - Fighting the Waves - Jagdish Mistry, violin, Hermann Kretzchmar, piano - RCA Victor
Violin Sonata no. 2 (1923) - Music for Violin and Piano - Ronald Erickson, violin, Nathan Schwartz, piano - Orion

Ballet Mécanique (1924) - Ballet Mécanique - University of Massachusetts Lowell Percussion Ensemble - EMF

Fighting the Waves (1929) - Fighting the Waves - Martyn Hill, tenor, Ensemble Modern - RCA Victor
Nightpiece (?) - Pomes Penyeach: Settings of Poetry by James Joyce - Myron Myers, bass, Erik Levi, piano - MHS

Valentine Waltzes III and IX (1949) - Valentines - Marthanne Verbit, piano - Albany
Trumpet Sonata (1951) - Music for Trumpet and Piano - Ned Gardner, trumpet, Richard Reid, piano - Laurel

Symphony no. 4 mvt 1 (1942-43) - Symphonies 4 & 5 - Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Hugh Wolff - CPO

notes:
-I wish I could've had another hour or 2. there's so much great music that I just couldn't get to.
-antheil was from trenton and was the first american composer to really be noticed in the music world in europe. he was inspired by stravinsky, and his best works take the rhythmic force of stravinsky and take it to the next level. I could write a whole lot more here, but unless you all want to hear it, I will refrain
-thanks to thomas of the worried waltz for lending me a bunch of these recordings 
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