Crank Up the Machine!
When Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay leads the UT New Music Ensemble in a performance of George Antheil's Ballet mécanique, he'll not only be giving the 1920s work its Austin premiere, he'll be reviving the notorious masterpiece of one of the true bad boys of music.
"...at his successfully scandalous 1923 piano recital of his Sonata Sauvage, Airplane Sonata, and Mechanisms. He succeeded retiring bad..."