George Antheil: La Femme 100 Têtes, by David Albee

George Antheil: La Femme 100 Têtes

by David Albee

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1.	I. Thoughtfully, Not Too Slow 01:14	buy track
2.	II. Thoughtfully, Not Too Slow 00:53	buy track
3.	III. Faintly Energetic 00:53	buy track
4.	IV. Floating 00:39	buy track
5.	V. Furioso 00:20	buy track
6.	VI. Floating 00:54	buy track
7.	VII. Sad 01:12	buy track
8.	VIII. Electrical, Spiccato 00:28	buy track
9.	IX. Sad 02:08	buy track
10.	X. Slightly Brutal tempo 00:28	buy track
11.	XI. Bawdy; Ferocious tempo 00:20	buy track
12.	XII. Brilliant; Clean, Fast 00:48	buy track
13.	XIII. Nostalgic, Twisted, Slowly 01:37	buy track
14.	XIV. Brilliant, Fast, Tricky 00:22	buy track
15.	XV. Slowly 01:24	buy track
16.	XVI. Lights Flashing 00:19	buy track
17.	XVII. Brilliant 00:36	buy track
18.	XVIII. Banged, an Even Forte Throughout 00:49	buy track
19.	XIX. Fast, an Even Piano Throughout 00:23	buy track
20.	XX. Faster 00:12	buy track
21.	XXI. Slower 00:37	buy track
22.	XXII. Faster, an Even Fortissimo Throughout 00:32	buy track
23.	XXIII. Well Articulated 00:27	buy track
24.	XXIV. Slowly 01:42	buy track
25.	XXV. Minuet ? 00:35	buy track
26.	XXVI. Onward Christian Soldiers 00:55	buy track
27.	XXVII. Dreaming Thoughtfully 01:36	buy track
28.	XXVIII. Knocked and Brilliant 00:37	buy track
29.	XXIX. Nostalgic, Slowly 02:16	buy track
30.	XXX. Brilliant 00:35	buy track
31.	XXXI. Not Too Slow: Fairly Good Tempo 00:39	buy track
32.	XXXII. Sad 01:30	buy track
33.	XXXIII. Mystic Tempo 01:22	buy track
34.	XXXIV. Brilliant 00:20	buy track
35.	XXXV. Furioso 00:16	buy track
36.	XXXVI. Glittering, Fast 00:56	buy track
37.	XXXVII. Subtle, Tender 01:04	buy track
38.	XXVIII. Broad 01:45	buy track
39.	XXXIX: Brilliant and Naked 00:33	buy track
40.	XL: Nostalgic 01:40	buy track
41.	XLI: Brilliant 00:29	buy track
42.	XLIII: Brilliant, Not Too Fast 01:02	buy track
43.	XLIV: A Machine 00:31	buy track
44.	XLV: Cruel, Quick 00:30	buy track
45.	XLVI: Percussion Dance 01:12	buy track

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Notes by Charles Amirkhanian

On September 20, 1933, at the Second Yaddo Festival of Contemporary Music in Saratoga Springs, New York, composer George Antheil gave the world premiere of his La Femme 100 Têtes preludes. He had composed the music in the southern French coastal town of Cagnes-sur-Mer near Nice on the Riviera, in the Winter of 1932–33. He had lived there with his Hungarian wife, Böske, since June of 1932 on a Guggenheim Fellowship which thankfully had rescued him from the brink of financial collapse and had returned the couple to their commonly-adopted country after a brief interlude in the U.S.

This unusual set of visionary etudes, inspired by La Femme 100 Têtes, a book of collaged etchings assembled by the surrealist painter Max Ernst from their original sources in volumes of nineteenth-century picture storybooks, and each given subtitles with hauntingly suggestive overtones, typifies Antheil’s music during what the composer himself referred to as his earlier “mechanistic” period (1922–25).

In a letter written September 7, 1933, from the composer’s hometown in New Jersey to Mr. Henry Allen Moe, the longtime custodian of the Guggenheim program, Antheil refers to these preludes as “short, terse and steely”—representing “the subconscious and strange feelings of my childhood in Trenton.” (Shades of Jack Duluoz, the young protagonist in Dr. Sax, Jack Kerouac’s novel of intense autobiographical reminiscence, centered on his adolescence in industrial Lowell, Massachusetts.)...

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released January 1, 1984

David Albee, piano

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