George Antheil - american bad-ass

[stevie]

this dude wrote some kick-ass music!

percussive, wickedly rhythmic, aggressive, really kick ass, from what ive heard, so yeah.

[joell12068]

I've only heard the Sonata "Airplane".  What other Antheil pieces do you recommend.

[stevie]

on a radio broadcast i heard hamelin play the antheil 'jazz sonata' as an encore.

its totally insane, and totally awesome, and shockingly brief...hahaha true

i have a cd with his ballet mechanique, for orchestra and other random instruments, its really cool too.

but, just looking at the scores of some of the music, it looks really cool and percussive, if its anything like that jazz sonata it rawks.

[burstroman]

He wrote a couple toccatas which are fun!