And in the polar opposite department, I am listening to the music of George Antheil, the "bad boy of music" so dubbed for what was at the time his completely outrageous Ballet Mechanique. We issued that and his fourth symphony back in the Bay Cities days and I have no memory at all of that CD. But in the closet I had several discs which I'm sure contain better performances. Listening to his piano concerto now - first movement ranges from interesting tonalities to banging, but there's something fun about it. He was also a very good if not prolific film composer - we issued his The Pride and the Passion on CD, which is wonderful, and I love his ballet that I wrote about the other day, Capital of the World.
