When George Antheil Met Hedy Lamarr (A True Story)

NYTimes.com: "The American composer George Antheil, the Bad Boy of Music, as he titled his 1945 autobiography, is best known for a jackhammer of a piece he wrote in Paris in his mid-20s, “Ballet Mécanique.” It was originally conceived as a 25-minute score to accompany a Dadaist silent film by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy. The music was supposed to be performed by 16 synchronized player pianos, but Antheil could never figure out how to get the pianos to play in sync. A concert version for a roster of percussion instruments including an airplane propeller was introduced in Paris in 1926."