As the eclectic, inventive, and just plain fun side of 20th century music has reestablished its legitimacy, American composer George Antheil, the "bad boy of music," has merited new performances. Of what other composer could something like this be written (as it is here in the booklet notes)? "His compositional impasse during the second half of the Thirties was a serious one, and for a time he considered himself a failure and turned to other activities such as journalism, endocrinology, and advice to the lovelorn." These ...
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As the eclectic, inventive, and just plain fun side of 20th century music has reestablished its legitimacy, American composer George Antheil, the "bad boy of music," has merited new performances. Of what other composer could something like this be written (as it is here in the booklet notes)? "His compositional impasse during the second half of the Thirties was a serious one, and for a time he considered himself a failure and turned to other activities such as journalism, endocrinology, and advice to the lovelorn." These violin sonatas are not common items at all, and the unfinished (and somewhat Bartókian) Sonata for violin solo (1927), written like two of the three accompanied sonatas for Ezra Pound's music Olga Rudge, is a world premiere. It is amusing to contemplate the fact that the Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1923), with its almost Ivesian kaleidoscope of popular tunes, was dedicated to the erudite Pound himself, but that's all part of the charm of 1920s expatriate culture. Antheil called...
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