Refresh Current Page to have new set of Products Songs 2 Price: $13.99 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Lowest Used Price: $13.99 - Total Used: 8 Ballet Mecanique and other Works for Player Pianos, Percussion, and Electronics Price: $16.00 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (3 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique, a wild, highly rhythmic composition combining industrial age sounds and jazz, is one of the most notorious musical moments of the 20th century. Antheil, an American composer living in Paris in the 1920s, composed the first version of Ballet Mecanique in 1924 for 4 player pianos, then almost immediately expanded the instrumentation to 3 xylophones, 4 bass drums, tamtam, 2 pianos, siren, 3 airplane propellors, 7 bells, and 16 synchronized player pianos. He revised it again for performances in Paris in 1926 and New York in 1927. Following the New York performance, so badly received that it almost ruined his career, he visited Berlin, then went to Hollywood where he pursued a career as film composer. He revised the work again in 1953, and that version, more practical than earlier versions, has been performed several times. The expanded 1924 version, however, was never performed until its premiere, produced by Paul Lehrman, at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in November 1999. And this CD, a recording of that performance, is a major event! Lowest New Price: $16.00 - Total New: 2 Lowest Used Price: $10.98 - Total Used: 5 The Big Broadcast, Volume 1: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $12.46 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (4 Customer Reviews) Lowest New Price: $12.46 - Total New: 12 Lowest Used Price: $17.66 - Total Used: 3 The Big Broadcast, Volume 2: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $15.99 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (4 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: For over thirty years, radio host Rich Conaty has brought the jazz and popular music of the 1920s and 1930s to listeners in New York City through his program The Big Broadcast, heard Sunday evenings on WFUV-FM. This second compilation selected by Rich features Eva Taylor, Arthur Hall, Charles Kaley, Rube Bloom, Walter Davidson's Louisville Loons, Paul Whiteman, Kenneth Casey, Bob Nolan with Blue Steele, Annette Hanshaw, Al Bowlly, Smith Ballew, Rudy Vallee, Sid Peltyn, Ramona with Paul Whiteman, Three Keys, Claude Hopkins, Connie Boswell with Jimmie Grier, Eddie Stone with Isham Jones, Cliff Edwards, Joe Venuti, Eddie Paul, Mezz Mezzrow, Don Redman and Red Nichols & His Pennies. Also contains a 16-page illustrated booklet. Lowest New Price: $15.99 - Total New: 10 Lowest Used Price: $18.97 - Total Used: 3 The Big Broadcast, Volume 3: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $12.32 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (3 Customer Reviews) Lowest New Price: $12.32 - Total New: 11 Lowest Used Price: $17.66 - Total Used: 3 Black & White Hillbilly Music: Early Harmonica Recordings from the 1920s & 1930's Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $15.95 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (1 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: The "Old Southern Sound" was a mixture of several traditions and there were no strictly borders between the different styles. Black blues and white hillbilly musicians influenced each other and often shared a common repertoire. DeFord Bailey learned these tunes from his grandfather who called them "black hillbilly music". The harmonica became a link between the races as the first mass produced musical instrument which was cheap enough for everyone to own. It was easy to play and you could carry it around in your pocket. The harmonica was not only popular with soloists who liked to imitate the sounds of trains and foxchases with it, but was also widely used in many hillbilly stringbands to add a different flavor. Trikont. 2005. Lowest New Price: $15.95 - Total New: 8 Lowest Used Price: $13.46 - Total Used: 4 L'Eventail de Jeanne & Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel: French Ballet Music of the 1920s Price: $6.95 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (1 Customer Reviews) Lowest Used Price: $6.95 - Total Used: 12