Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs: Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood, How I Grew, And Intellectual Memoirs - Plot & Excerpts
His Zingareska for orchestra, one of the first symphonic works to incorporate jazz, was performed in Berlin in 1921. When he moved to Paris in 1923, he was taken up by Joyce, Yeats, Satie, Picasso, and Pound (who wrote a book about him). In November 1923, two violin sonatas commissioned by Pound—who performed the part for tenor and bass drums at the end of the second—had their premiere. In 1924 Antheil began working with Léger and the film maker Dudley Murphy on Ballet Méchanique, which was scored for sixteen player pianos controlled from a switchboard, but the synchronization with the abstract film proved impossible, and they became autonomous works. Ballet Méchanique was performed in Paris in 1925 with eight pianos, one player piano, four bass drums, and a siren; in 1927 it was done at Carnegie Hall.He became musical director for the Berlin Stadttheater in 1928. In May 1930 his first opera, Transatlantic, was performed at Frankfurt am Main. The libretto centered on an American presidential campaign and presented a wild caricature of life in the United States.
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