The American composer and pianist George Antheil (1900-1959) called himself a "pianist-futurist". A child of the 20th century, he loved speed, cars and airplanes. For the purpose of furthering his education and sponsored by a wealthy American woman, he settled in the Paris of the Années Folles, where he met Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky and composed works such as the Sonate Sauvage and the Jazz Sonata, which were not the only of his pieces to cause tangible, or rather. scandals. In other ways, too, he cultivated with relish the image of the "bad boy of music" - which, by the way, is also the title of his extremely entertaining autobiography! At a concert in Budapest he even brandished a pistol in the style of a Chicago gangster in order to keep the peace in the hall..... But he wasn't all that evil: he revered Ludwig van Beethoven, for example, whose works he used to play in the first part of his concerts before performing his own music. in 1933 he returned to the United States, where he met the future icons of the American avant-garde, John Cage and Morton Feldman. This, of course, did not prevent him from significantly toning down his tonal language and turning to completely different things for once. He wrote a crime novel and, together with the Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, developed an innovative radio control system for torpedoes, the principle of which is still used today in Bluetooth. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the young Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen - whom the London Times introduced after a concert (for the reviewer "one of those concerts you remember forever") as a "double" of the violinist! - pay tribute here to the equally famous and infamous "Bad Boy of Music".