Ballet Mécanique - George Antheil

 

Ballet Mécanique

Ballet Mechanique - George Antheil

Toccata For Percussion - Carlos Chavez

October Mountain - Alan Hovhanness

Sketch For Percussion - Robert LoPresti

Los Angeles Contemporary Music Ensemble - Robert Craft, Conductor

Manhattan Percussion Ensemble - Paul Price, Conductor

Cover Design by Ronald Clyne

Urania US 5134

From the back cover: The Conductors

Both Robert Craft, who leads the Antheil work and Paul Price, who conducts the other three, are young Americans who champion the latest in modern music and modern trends. Robert Craft, author of a book on Stravinsky, is a New Yorker living in Hollywood where he founded his ensemble to promote understanding of such innovators as Schoenberg, Webern, Stockhausen and Boulez. Paul Price has chosen percussion as his vocation. He teaches and conducts them at the Manhattan School of Music and heads a publishing firm specializing in percussion compositions. Mr. Price is credited with being largely responsible for the world-wide acceptance of the stimulating new trend. – Ann M. Lingg

Ballet Mécanique (1924, rev. 1954) – George Antheil (1900 - 1959)

Four pianos, two Xylophones, Glockenspiel, Timpani, Tenor and Bass Drums, Military Drum, Gong, Triangle, Cymbal, Woodblock, Large and Small Airplane Propeller, Large and Small Electric Bell.

Sketch For Percussion (1956) – Ronald LoPresti (b. 1953)

Xylophone, Marimba, Celeste, Timpani, Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Gong, Piano, Triangle, Suspended Cyhmbal

Toccata for Percussion Instruments (1942) – Carlos Chavez (b. 1899)

Xylophone, Side Drums, Indian Drums, Tenor and Bass Drums, Bells, Suspended Cymbals, Timpani, Large and Small Gongs, Chimes, Claves, Maraca

October Mountain (1942) – Alan Hovhanness (b. 1911)

Marimba, Glockenspiel, Timpani, Tenor and Bass Drums, Gong, Tam-Tam