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- George Antheil
A Jazz Symphony (1955 version) (1955)
- Weintraub Music (World)
- 1030/0330/perc/pf/str
- 6 min 30 s
Programme Note
Antheil’s Jazz Symphony was composed in 1925 on a commission from Paul Whiteman and premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1927.
Quoting Joplin and Stravinsky and calling upon the trumpeter to employ "all the tricks of the trade," Antheil creates a wholly original and inimitable musical score that once and for all marries jazz to the concert orchestra. Virtuosic piano solos look ahead to the post-bebop "free" jazz of the 60s.
Quoting Joplin and Stravinsky and calling upon the trumpeter to employ "all the tricks of the trade," Antheil creates a wholly original and inimitable musical score that once and for all marries jazz to the concert orchestra. Virtuosic piano solos look ahead to the post-bebop "free" jazz of the 60s.
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Reviews
“A Jazz Symphony” sounds like wrong-note Leroy Anderson, only better, and irresistible.
1st April 1997
Discography
George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique
- LabelNimbus
- Catalogue Number2567
- ConductorMaurice Peress
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