George Antheil
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Born: 8 July 1900, Trenton (USA)
Died: 12 February 1959, New York (USA)
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[details ←] George Antheil - Ballet mecanique
[details ←] Piano Album Piano,
[details ←] Violin Sonata No. 2 Piano, Violin,
[details ←] Violin Sonata No. 1 Piano, Violin,
[details ←] Works for Violin and Piano Piano, Violin,
[details ←] Five Songs (1919-1920) Piano, Vocal,
[details ←] Sonatina Violin, Cello,
Music
Principal compositions: Ballet Mécanique (1925), A Jazz Symphony (1925), 2 Violin sonatas (1923), 4 Symphonies of which Symphony 4 has been recorded, Printemps, Fighting the Waves, Lithuanian Night, Jazz Sonata, concerto for chamber orchestra, Printemps II. An excellent overview of his work exists on CD made in 1996 on RCA called "Fighting the Waves".
The following works can be heard on the CD cpo 777 040-2 with Hugo Wolff and the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt:
- Third Symphony ("Americana"); 1936-1939 rev. 1946
- Tom Sawyer Overture; Hot-Time Dance 1948
- McKonkey’s Ferry Overture 1948
- Capital of the World 1953
(contributed by Ralph Barrocas <RBarrocas
aol.com>)
George Antheil actually wrote seven symphonies of which he claimed only six. He wrote one version of his Fifth Symphony and subtitled it "Tragic" in memory of his brother and the dead from World War II. He did not have this first version published (I wish someone would find it) and subsequently wrote a new Fifth Symphony which he allowed to be published with the subtitle "Joyous." The prominent music critic and composer Virgil Thomson wrote a glowing review of this work. Both the Fourth Symphony and this Fifth Symphony ("Joyous") have been recorded. The recording of the Fifth Symphony is recorded on the Centaur Records label and I recommend it highly!
(contributed by Joy Doug <dJoyBradydist.com>)
Biography
American composer and journalist part of the American ex-patriate cultural crowd in Paris in the twenties.
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404963818
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404963812
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages:English Subtitled French Subtitled Japanese Subtitled Spanish Subtitled English Original Language
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D07294D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 27, 1949
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Following the 1948 one-two punch of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Key Largo, and before hitting the halcyon streak of The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Red Badge of Courage (1951), and The African Queen (1951), John Huston directed a fascinating movie called We Were Strangers--which could have been the working title of almost any picture Huston made. The first endeavor of his and Sam Spiegel's independent Horizon company, it's a very offbeat film that deserves to be better known. In 1933, an American leftist (John Garfield) returns to his native Cuba to help topple a dictator. Thrown together with a diverse band of co-conspirators--including a recently radicalized young woman (Jennifer Jones) and an endearingly lusty proletarian (Gilbert Roland)--he hatches a macabre plot for planting a bomb under El Presidente and his cabinet. Have no doubt that, in finest Hustonian tradition, the quest will trace a twisted itinerary, with several grotesque detours, to the most bitterly ironical of endings. The casting of Garfield, soon to be a victim of the Hollywood blacklist, retrospectively darkens this HUAC-era production. Aesthetically, the Cuban setting, spare rhythms, and stylized, quasi-literary dialogue speak to the looming shadow of Ernest Hemingway, a big influence on Huston's early writing and a boon companion of the director and co-screenwriter Peter Viertel, while in theme and mood the picture honors the growing cult of French Existentialism-with-a-capital-E (hardly coincidentally, Huston had directed the first American stage production of No Exit not long before). --Richard T. Jameson
Rating:
- One of Oswald's 'Trigger' Films?
The most recent issue of FILMFAX Magazine (Autumn, 2007) includes an interesting article which claims that this movie was one of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's 'trigger' films.
Oswald's widow went on record (in the Warren Report) stating that Oswald watched this film twice in 24 hours when it was shown on a local Dallas TV station, just over a month before Kennedy was killed. Researchers have verified that "We Were Strangers" was, indeed, screened twice in Dallas over a weekend ... Read More
Rating:
- A drama and nothing more
I bought this movie for its historic value. Practically no film exists that covers Cuba during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although I knew this was a US interpretation of the period and that it was made in the 1950s, I had hoped for some nod to the Cuban revolution of 1933. In fact, it is an overly dramatic love story of revolutionaries fighting for some undefined revolution who dig a tunnel from the home of an innocent and beautiful orphaned young woman. The rest is entirely predictable. She ... Read More
Rating:
- "They'll all be blown to hell, which is where they belong."
This neglected, controversial, and highly underated John Huston classic has thankfully been released on dvd so that movie buffs can rediscover this "lost" gem. While the dvd has no bonus features (besides a few meaningless theatrical trailors) it at least has a great sound quality and very good picture quality.
John Garfield stars as Tony Fenner, a Cuban-born expatriate who returns to his now troubled country for one purpose: to wipe out the dictator Gerardo Machado and his sinister ... Read More
Rating: - Obscure Huston film surfaces
In between making the classics "Treasure of the Sierre Madre" (1948) and "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), John Huston made "We Were Strangers," which virtually vanished and was never released on VHS and seldom shown on television. At the time of the film's release, which was right at the beginning of the HUAC Committee and American political paranoia, it predictably received unfavorable and questionable attention. It was released in April of 1949 but audiences were perplexed by it and it quickly vanished ... Read More
Rating: - We Were Strangers (1949)
At long last a forgotten blockbuster film from Hollywood's Golden Era will soon be released on DVD! Passed up for re-issue on video this action packed, star studded epic will leave an unforgettable impression. Starring Jennifer Jones as the sultry cuban belle and revolutionary, "China" Valdes, John Garfield as Tony Fenner, a courageous Cuban-American revolutionary, Pedro Armendariz as Ariete, the ruthless chief of dictator Machado's police and co-starring Gilbert Roland, Morris Ankrum, Ramon Novarro and ... Read More
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404963818
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404963812
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages:
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D07294D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 27, 1949
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Following the 1948 one-two punch of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Key Largo, and before hitting the halcyon streak of The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Red Badge of Courage (1951), and The African Queen (1951), John Huston directed a fascinating movie called We Were Strangers--which could have been the working title of almost any picture Huston made. The first endeavor of his and Sam Spiegel's independent Horizon company, it's a very offbeat film that deserves to be better known. In 1933, an American leftist (John Garfield) returns to his native Cuba to help topple a dictator. Thrown together with a diverse band of co-conspirators--including a recently radicalized young woman (Jennifer Jones) and an endearingly lusty proletarian (Gilbert Roland)--he hatches a macabre plot for planting a bomb under El Presidente and his cabinet. Have no doubt that, in finest Hustonian tradition, the quest will trace a twisted itinerary, with several grotesque detours, to the most bitterly ironical of endings. The casting of Garfield, soon to be a victim of the Hollywood blacklist, retrospectively darkens this HUAC-era production. Aesthetically, the Cuban setting, spare rhythms, and stylized, quasi-literary dialogue speak to the looming shadow of Ernest Hemingway, a big influence on Huston's early writing and a boon companion of the director and co-screenwriter Peter Viertel, while in theme and mood the picture honors the growing cult of French Existentialism-with-a-capital-E (hardly coincidentally, Huston had directed the first American stage production of No Exit not long before). --Richard T. Jameson
Average Rating:
Rating:
- One of Oswald's 'Trigger' Films?The most recent issue of FILMFAX Magazine (Autumn, 2007) includes an interesting article which claims that this movie was one of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's 'trigger' films.
Oswald's widow went on record (in the Warren Report) stating that Oswald watched this film twice in 24 hours when it was shown on a local Dallas TV station, just over a month before Kennedy was killed. Researchers have verified that "We Were Strangers" was, indeed, screened twice in Dallas over a weekend ... Read More
Rating:
- A drama and nothing moreI bought this movie for its historic value. Practically no film exists that covers Cuba during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although I knew this was a US interpretation of the period and that it was made in the 1950s, I had hoped for some nod to the Cuban revolution of 1933. In fact, it is an overly dramatic love story of revolutionaries fighting for some undefined revolution who dig a tunnel from the home of an innocent and beautiful orphaned young woman. The rest is entirely predictable. She ... Read More
Rating:
- "They'll all be blown to hell, which is where they belong."This neglected, controversial, and highly underated John Huston classic has thankfully been released on dvd so that movie buffs can rediscover this "lost" gem. While the dvd has no bonus features (besides a few meaningless theatrical trailors) it at least has a great sound quality and very good picture quality.
John Garfield stars as Tony Fenner, a Cuban-born expatriate who returns to his now troubled country for one purpose: to wipe out the dictator Gerardo Machado and his sinister ... Read More
Rating:
- Obscure Huston film surfacesIn between making the classics "Treasure of the Sierre Madre" (1948) and "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), John Huston made "We Were Strangers," which virtually vanished and was never released on VHS and seldom shown on television. At the time of the film's release, which was right at the beginning of the HUAC Committee and American political paranoia, it predictably received unfavorable and questionable attention. It was released in April of 1949 but audiences were perplexed by it and it quickly vanished ... Read More
Rating:
- We Were Strangers (1949)At long last a forgotten blockbuster film from Hollywood's Golden Era will soon be released on DVD! Passed up for re-issue on video this action packed, star studded epic will leave an unforgettable impression. Starring Jennifer Jones as the sultry cuban belle and revolutionary, "China" Valdes, John Garfield as Tony Fenner, a courageous Cuban-American revolutionary, Pedro Armendariz as Ariete, the ruthless chief of dictator Machado's police and co-starring Gilbert Roland, Morris Ankrum, Ramon Novarro and ... Read More
Concerts
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Events
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19 June 1926: Premiere of Ballet Mécanique, in Paris, France.
10 April 1927: Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in F major, in New York, USA.
25 May 1930: Premiere of Transatlantic, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Links
- http://www.antheil.org/: a page discussing the history and revivial of the 1923-4 version (for 16 player pianos and percussion) of Ballet Mecanique.
- A page about George and Hedy Lamarr’s patent.
- http://www.otherminds.org/html/Antheilphotos.html
- On demand listening of Antheil’s: Ballet mechanique, The Jazz Symphony and Sonata #2 at MPR’s MusicMavericks
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