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host is Paul D. Lehrman
Last update:
December 10, 2011
OUR 13th YEAR
ON THE WEB!
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Don't
know what the Ballet mécanique
is? Click here…
or follow
the hand for a tour of the history of this
INCREDIBLE piece of musical multimedia… |
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Hedy's
Folly
by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard
Rhodes, tells the story of the amazing invention, by composer
George Antheil and Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr, of
"spread-spectrum" technology—the basis of all wireless
technology today!
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Warning !!!
This book contains one major factual
error (Antheil was
not able to synchronize four pianolas at his 1927 Carnegie
Hall concert!), but the author has promised to fix it
for the paperback edition…
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Telly
Bronze award
First prize
Int'l
Festival
of Films on Science,
Budapest
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the
award-winning documentary film by Paul Lehrman & Ron
Frank
Featured
on  now
on DVD!
•••Read
the 3-1/2-star review from the Boston  •••
"A
TERRIFIC FILM, perhaps the
most original and interesting
independent documentary I have screened
this year."—WETA-TV |
"A
compelling look at a fascinating
man—ESSENTIAL VIEWING
for lovers of 20th-century
music and a great introduction
for those of us whose tastes
are less noisily inclined." —NEFilm.com |
"OUTSTANDING.
Absolutely fascinating."—The
Boston Phoenix |
"Stimulating,
informative, TOTALLY ENTERTAINING.
A well-made documentary which
everyone interested in music must see."—The
Audio Engineering Society |
"DON'T
MISS IT!—The
Independent Film Monthly |
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COMING
SOON!
"Face Value"
a Hollywood feature film about the amazing relationship
between George Antheil and Hedy Lamarr and their invention
of spread-spectrum
watch this space… |
RECENTLY:
September 8, 2010, Hesburgh Center Auditorium
"Ballet
Mécanique: A Spread-Spectrum Ecstacy":
performance of the multimedia poem/play
"Automystifstical
Plaice" by
John Matthias
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in
England… |
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November 22, 2009
Antheil's
rarely-heard 1925 Ballet mécanique—the single-pianola
version—was performed by
Anglia Sinfonia at Anglia Ruskin University's West
Road Concert Hall, in Cambridge. The pianola
soloist was the estimable Rex Lawson, and the conductor
was Paul Jackson.  |
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in
Chicago…
March 3, 2009
first performance of
Ballet mécanique:
Dada
Machinations • , at the Harris Theater for Music and
Dance
"Termites
running the asylum!…a spectacle hard
to forget…giving the performance a primal
intensity…Clutched the audience and
didn't let go!"— Chicago
Sun-Times |
"A
HAPPY RIOT" in WASHINGTON,
DC!
In conjunction with a huge exhibit on Dadaist art,
the National Gallery of Art hosted the all-mechanical
Ballet mécanique orchestra, performing
what the critics called "The best 10
minutes of free fun in Washington!"
 WATCH
THE VIDEO!
plus PICTURES from the National Gallery |
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UNSEEN
CINEMA,
featuring
the Ballet mécanique, on
DVD
"One of the major monuments of the DVD medium!"-
"The must-have release of the year!"- FILM
COMMENT
Winner, LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS Special Citation |
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Frequency
Hopping—a
new play by Elyse Singer about Hedy Lamarr and George
Antheil
Museum of Florida International University
We
have received an Award from the Encyclopedia Britannica
