Cambridge Companions to Music: The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin by Celenza Anna Harwell

Author:Celenza, Anna Harwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

Schirmer claimed that “a pleasant evening was had by all,” but one wonders. Antheil had a habit of name dropping, and he took great pride in his position as an up-and-coming American composer. For example, in an earlier letter to Mary Curtis Bok (founder of the Curtis Institute in 1924), Antheil described a concert in the “beautiful Champ Elysees [sic.] Theatre,” where he “played to a brilliant audience,” which included:

Man Ray, Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Picabia and Heaven knows who else. In one box alone sat James Joyce, the author of Ulysses … In another box sat Léger, the second greatest painter after Picasso. With him sat Ezra Pound, the world’s greatest modern critic … he has just yesterday sent in a thirty-page article to the “Criterian” [sic.] … upon ME – in which he thoroughly analyzes my music, and says that I am the only artist who has revolutionized any one of the arts during the last three years – and “the only thing that America has ever given us.”9

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