George Antheil - Ballet Mécanique Roll 1

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Uploaded by on Sep 14, 2010

Original Compositions for Player Piano between 1915 and 1930. In this period composers discovered the superhuman possibilities of the Player Piano. Strawinsky, Hindemith, Toch, Antheil, Münch, Haass and Casella used this new medium, decades before Conlon Nancarrow discovered it again for his ingenious Studies for Player Piano. This clip was recorded by a finely restored Bösendorfer Ampico Grand. See www.playerpianokonzerte.de and www.nancarrow.de

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  • L. Douglas Henderson (ARTCRAFT) asked me to comment on his music roll arrangement of this piece, performed in this video. He calls this work a reconstruction. He created and produced this original arrangement of the piece based on the original sheet music, and on a much earlier music roll set produced by Pleyel and rejected by Antheil, due to technical errors and difficulties.

  • Neat to see this all on one instrument, as it was originally performed. It at least makes some sense watching this way.

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