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Vote: | In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet. |
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Vote: | It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. |
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Vote: | Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed. |
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Vote: | The sweat - great slithering streams of it - pours down you. It runs down your legs, down the leg that is pedalling the sostenuto pedal, down the other leg. It oozes out all over your chest, flows down the binding around your middle where your full-dress pants soak it up. It flows everywhere, down your arms, down your hands. |
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Vote: | You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little. |
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Vote: | You crawl over the onrushing piano passages in slow motion. Your fingers are in ten little steel strait-jackets. |
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Vote: | Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it that no young predatory females get very far. |
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George Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American composer and pianist of Polish descent. He first established a career as a concert pianist, mostly in Europe, but shortly thereafter also attracted notice for his avant-garde compositions, which were strongly influenced by Stravinsky. His most famous work is Ballet mécanique (1926), intended as a concert piece and not as music for dancers, despite the title: it's the machines that are doing the dancing in this piece, which includes parts for electric buzzers and airplane propellers.
In the 1930s Antheil's music grew more traditional, but at the same time he found difficulty making a living, and at various times he wrote film scores, conducted a lonely-hearts column, and wrote for Esquire Magazine. His autobiography, Bad Boy of Music (1945), was a popular success, and it remains a vivid and entertaining account of his experiences. In the last two decades of his life he was in demand as a composer of operas and film scores. Long after his death, his work in yet another field was belatedly recognized: he and Hedy Lamarr are credited with inventing the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technique for signal transmission in 1942. He died in 1959, in New York City leaving his wife, Boski, and two surviving children, Peter, and Chris.
External links *Schirmer.com: George Antheil
*Wikiquote: George Antheil
*Antheil.org
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*NewMusicJukeBox.org: George Antheil
*Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium: George Antheil's La Femme 100 têtes (Nicolas Hodges, piano) RealPlayer required!
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