Duo with Sophie Dunèr
Sophie Dunèr and I met many years ago in Paris, through our mutual interest in George Antheil’s wacky music. Here’s a video we recorded this winter in Berlin, at SOWIESO.
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Antheil the Futurist
Liner Notes for Antheil the Futurist In 1920, a brash young composer from New Jersey named George Antheil decided to be the “most ultra” of the avant-garde, quarreled with his teachers, and transformed himself into a concert pianist. His cousin Robert Antheil remembered many years later: “At that time George was getting ready for his trip to Europe and was practicing all day long. The keys on the piano were worn through the ivory and down into the wood. He attacked the piano fiercely. When his fingers got very sore
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