Finding Aid for the George Antheil Motion Picture and Television Music Collection 1936-1957

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Descriptive Summary

Title: George Antheil Motion Picture and Television Music Collection,

Date (inclusive): 1936-1957

Collection number: 43-M

Creator: Antheil, George

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. University of California, Library Special Collections

Los Angeles, California 90095-1490

Abstract: The collection consists of holographs, ozalid and other copies of scores, short scores and parts of George Antheil's music for motion picture and television productions. Included is the music for The Plainsman, The Buccaneer, Knock on Any Door, Not as a Stranger, In a Lonely Place, and The Pride and the Passion.

Access

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], George Antheil Motion Picture and Television Music Collection, 43-M, University of California, Library Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.

Biographical Note

Antheil was born on June 8, 1900, in Trenton, NJ; he began piano lessons at age six and later studied composition under Ernest Bloch from 1919-21; after a successful tour of Europe as a concert pianist in the early 1920s he took up residence in Paris, and began composing, using jazz rhythms and mechanical devices in symphonic music; his most famous work, Ballet mTcanique (1924), intended as an accompaniment to the experimental Fernand Leger film of that name, is a score that calls for such unorthodox instruments as mechanical pianos, airplane propellers, and electric bells; his opera Transatlantic (1927-28) was staged in Frankfurt in 1930; from 1929-33 he divided his time between Europe and the US, solidifying a fundamentally American style, using a synthesis of American folk-like material that appears in almost all of his later compositions; returning permanently to the US in 1933, he continued to write for musical theater and wrote ballet scores for George Balanchine and Martha Graham; he began composing for Hollywood films in 1935 while continuing his work for the concert hall and settled in Hollywood in 1936; in the 1940s, he embraced a new romantic spirit in his music, especially in his successful symphonies no. 4 & 5; wrote a set 4 operas in the early 1950s; died in New York on Feb. 12, 1959.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of holographs, ozalid and other copies of scores, short scores and parts of George Antheil's music for motion picture and television productions. Includes music for The plainsman, The buccaneer, Knock on any door, Not as a stranger, In a lonely place, and The pride and the passion.

The collection is organized into the following series:

Series 1. Motion Pictue Projects
Series 2. Television Projects
Series 3. Stage Projects
Series 4. Musical Compositions
Series 5. Unidentified Materials

Container List

Series 1. Motion Pictue Projects

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by project title.

Box 16

Angels Over Broadway

Arranger: Antheil, George

Arranger: Cutner, S.

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions; autograph score

Note

Production no. 82

Box 20, Folder 18

Angels Over Broadway

Arranger: Antheil, George

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions

Scope and Content Note

Cue: Backstage Romance

Note

Production no. 82

Box 20, Folder 32

Angels Over Broadway

Creator/Collector: Antheil, George

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions

Scope and Content Note

Cue: Engel With Death.

Note

Production no. 82

Box 10

Brennan Girl, The

Arranger: Gold, Ernest

Arranger: Scott, Nathan

Physical Description: short scores; ozalid reproductions

Note

Production no. 1554.

Box 16

Buccaneer, The

Arranger: Antheil, George

Arranger: Roder, Milan

Arranger: Garbonara

Lyricist: Coslow, Sam

Composer: Stone, Gregory

Physical Description: short scores; ozalid reproductions; piano vocal scores

Box 18

D Day no. 2

Physical Description: short scores; autograph

Box 11

Dementia

Physical Description: short score; autograph

Box 12

Fighting Kentuckian, The

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions

Note

Production no. 1740

Box 20, Folder 27

Fighting Kentuckian, The

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions

Scope and Content Note

Includes various manuscript sketches and drafts including: Let Me Down Hangman and I Gave My Love to a Rose.

Note

Production no. 1740

Box 9

House by the River

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproduction

Note

Original title: Floodtide. Production no. 1031.

Box 2

Hunters of the Deep

Arranger: Cutner, Sidney

Physical Description: scores; copyist's manuscripts

Box 6a

Hunters of the Deep

Physical Description: sets of parts by cue number

Note

Cues 1-32.

Box 7

Hunters of the Deep

Physical Description: short scores

Box 16

Juggler, The 1953 January

Physical Description: short scores; autograph

Note

Materials not used.

Box 11

Jugler, The

Arranger: Morton, Athur

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproduction

Note

Production no. 8091

Box 9

Knock on Any Door

Creator/Collector: Gold, Ernest

Physical Description: short score; autograph

Box 15

Knock on Any Door

Arranger: Gold, Ernest

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions

Note

Production no. 931

Box 20

Knock on Any Door

Parts: flute,clarinet, harp, violins, violas, celli

Physical Description: short score; autograph

Scope and Content Note

Cue titles: Chamber Music -- Nicke Discovers Suicide.

Note

Production no. 931

Box 18

Liberation of Paris

Physical Description: short scores; autograph

Box 20

Liberation of Paris

Physical Description: scores; ozalid reproductions

Box 17

Mission: Outer Space

Physical Description: short scores; autograph

Box 1

Not As A Stranger

Physical Description: scores; copyist's manuscripts

Box 6c

Not as a Stranger

Physical Description: part books

Box 19

Once in a Blue Moon

Arranger: Antheil, George

Physical Description: piano score; autograph; orchestral scores

Box 4

Orchids for Charlie

Physical Description: scores

Box 6a

Orchids for Charlie

Physical Description: part books

Box 6b

Orchids for Charlie

Physical Description: part books

Box 6c

Orchids for Charlie

Physical Description: part books

Box 15

Plainsman and the Lady, The

Arranger: Scott, Nathan

Arranger: Butts, Dale

Arranger: Antheil, George

Arranger: Gold, Ernest

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions; piano vocal scores

Note

Production no. 1470

Box 13

Plainsman, The

Arranger: Antheil, George

Arranger: Roder, Milan

Physical Description: short score; ozalid reproductions

Box 3