Antheil

American  

[an-tahyl] / ˈæn taɪl /

noun

1. George, 1900–59, U.S. composer.

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Antheil British  

/ ˈæntaɪl /

noun

1. George. 1900–59, US composer. His best known work is the controversial Le Ballet Méchanique (1924) for motor horns, bells, and aeroplane propellers

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Antheil

If the composer George Antheil had not already laid claim to the phrase “Bad Boy of Music,” Mr. Del Tredici could easily have adopted it himself.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2023

To counter these methods, actress Hedy Lamarr teamed up with composer George Antheil to develop the technique of “frequency hopping,” which prevented enemy submarines and ships from detecting American torpedoes.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2019

And at the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil received a patent for a "frequency hopping" device that manipulated radio frequencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

In collaboration with George Antheil, an avant-garde composer she had met at a party, she sought a solution to “radio jamming”—the deliberate disruption of radio signals—that was causing torpedoes to go off-course.

From Economist ● Nov. 23, 2017

In an afterword, Antheil scholar Mauro Piccinini usefully identifies the various roman a clef elements in the story, but you don’t need to be aware of any of them.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2017

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