The self-styled Bad Boy of Music — his Ballet Mécanique scored player pianos, propellers, and sirens for Léger's film and outran it; he lived above Shakespeare and Company on the rue de l'Odéon.
Met
Joyce and Nora attended Antheil's riotous Paris concerts and remained friends with him for years; Joyce encouraged his Cyclops opera and gave him one of the coveted copies of the Ulysses schema. The opera was never completed.
The composer lived in the mezzanine above Sylvia Beach's shop on the rue de l'Odéon — the Morgan's Ulysses centenary exhibition places him 'living in Paris above Shakespeare and Company' while he wrote Ballet Mécanique.
Visit the place
Antheil gave the first performance of his First String Quartet at one of Barney's Fridays. The Fridays were not only readings: music and dance were programmed alongside them. The sources do not date the evening.
Visit the place
Lived at
The composer lived in the mezzanine above Sylvia Beach's shop on the rue de l'Odéon — the Morgan's Ulysses centenary exhibition places him 'living in Paris above Shakespeare and Company' while he wrote Ballet Mécanique.
Met
Joyce and Nora attended Antheil's riotous Paris concerts and remained friends with him for years; Joyce encouraged his Cyclops opera and gave him one of the coveted copies of the Ulysses schema. The opera was never completed.
Performed at
Antheil gave the first performance of his First String Quartet at one of Barney's Fridays. The Fridays were not only readings: music and dance were programmed alongside them. The sources do not date the evening.