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Music on Film
Film
Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mecanique
5:20 — 6:35 pm
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Remis Auditorium
Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil’s 1924 Ballet Mécanique by Ron Frank (2003, 74 min.). George Antheil, the self-proclaimed "Bad Boy of Music," was a brash, colorful, and young "ultra-modern" American pianist and composer during the roaring '20s. His works caused fistfights in concert halls and riots in the streets from London to Budapest. His magnum opus, the "Ballet Mécanique," for percussion, sound effects, and multiple player pianos, turned Paris on its ear in 1924. But the piece called for technology that didn't exist at the time. It took a forward-thinking music publisher, a music technologist, a modern player-piano manufacturer, and the latest in computer technology before the piece was heard the way the composer wanted it-seventy-five years after it was written.
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