George Antheil

In a program that uncomfortably juxtaposed old standards (Bach, Beethoven, Kreisler) with second-tier Americans (Charles Ives, George Antheil), Hahn and her virtuoso pianist Valentina Lisitsa held the capacity crowd at Strathmore on Sunday afternoon mostly rapt.

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The Morgan exhibition includes a page from Calder's handwritten address book from 1930, with contact information for Brancusi, German photographer Ilse Bing, and American composer George Antheil, among others.

Margie Goldsmith: Make a List. Why Not? Picasso and Other Artists Did Margie Goldsmith 2011

Enter George Antheil, an American avant-garde composer whose works were known for using unorthodox instruments such as player-pianos, airplane propellers and sirens.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

The Morgan exhibition includes a page from Calder's handwritten address book from 1930, with contact information for Brancusi, German photographer Ilse Bing, and American composer George Antheil, among others.

Margie Goldsmith: Make a List. Why Not? Picasso and Other Artists Did Margie Goldsmith 2011

The Morgan exhibition includes a page from Calder's handwritten address book from 1930, with contact information for Brancusi, German photographer Ilse Bing, and American composer George Antheil, among others.

Margie Goldsmith: Make a List. Why Not? Picasso and Other Artists Did Margie Goldsmith 2011

The Morgan exhibition includes a page from Calder's handwritten address book from 1930, with contact information for Brancusi, German photographer Ilse Bing, and American composer George Antheil, among others.

Margie Goldsmith: Make a List. Why Not? Picasso and Other Artists Did Margie Goldsmith 2011

The new interest appears to be motivated by the recent discovery that, in 1942, Lamarr and avant-garde musician George Antheil patented a frequency-hopping radio-communications technique, which they hoped could control torpedoes.

Her Face Was Her Misfortune Jeanine Basinger 2010

After serving in the Army during World War II, he studied music at the University of Southern California until maverick American composer George Antheil took him under his wing.

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Best known as an actress, well, perhaps best known as a running gag in Mel Brooks's comedy Blazing Saddles, Hedy Lamarr holds a patent for a "Secret Communications System" under the name Hedy Kiesler Markey with George Antheil.

- 2009

It concerns the life of Lamarr, who was a 1940s film actress, and her collaboration with an avant-garde composer named George Antheil.

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