Join Chief Guest Conductor, John Storg氓rds, for a live 麻豆社 Radio 3 broadcast featuring the self-styled 鈥渂ad boy of music鈥�, George Antheil. Antheil's 'mechanistic' works made him the rage of the 1920s Parisian artistic community and 'bad boy' of the music scene.
This afternoon we hear Antheil's First Symphony, 鈥淶ingaresca鈥�, dating from his early twenties. In 1922 Antheil announced that jazz was 鈥渙ne of the greatest artistic landmarks of modern art鈥� and this symphony is a prime example of the way in which he incorporated the sounds and styles of jazz into classical music.
Commissioned in 1952 to write music for a ballet based on a Hemingway short story, Antheil flavours his Capital of the World with American, Russian and Spanish influences.
