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Feb
Feb
An interview with theremin player and teacher Kip Rosser about the discovery of Juliet Shaw’s archive and custom theremin (probably built by Léon Theremin himself).
Valerio Saggini
Juliet Shaw
Summertime
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A performance of George Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’ by Juliet Shaw. Thanks to Kip Rosser for this file.
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Jan
Jan
With great pleasure, we received the following message from the American thereminist Kip Rosser: To all of you thereminists, theremin enthusiasts, electro-musicians and electronic music lovers the world over…Juliet Shaw was a concert pianist and thereminist whose performing career spanned from the early 1930s through the late 1980s. Yet, she’s barely mentioned anywhere online or […]
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Jun
Jun
Eric Ross is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, and theremin player. He has written countless scores in his long career, including many pages of original music for the theremin. He has presented rich multimedia performances worldwide, mixing music, video, and computer art and dance. And he has released several recordings. In this interview, Eric tells us about his long musical journey.
Eric Ross, Youseff Yancy
Eric Ross Live in N.Y. (Op. 28)
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Eric Ross / Youseff Yancy Live in NYC
Opus 28: Variations. For ensemble. (created: 3/83-11/83, Binghamton, NY, New York City). Duration c.30 min. Videotape and stills-Mary Ross-commissioned by USA National Endowment for the Arts in Dance, Film, Video. Premiere, Whitney Center NY, 11/8/83, (1) Intrada 2) Live at Lincoln 3) Synthetic Horn 4) Suspension/Mandala 5) Lerida 6) Trills 7) De La Aare 8) Percussion 9) Steel Drums 10) Postlude and Codetta. Eric Ross- Theremin, electronics, guitar, piano, percussion. Youseff Yancy-trumpet, flugelhorn, Theremin. Atsuko Yuma, Mary Ross-voices.
Eric Ross, Youseff Yancy
Eric Ross Live in N.Y. (Op. 30)
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Eric Ross / Youseff Yancy Live in NYC
Opus 30: No. 2, Electronic Suite. For ensemble. (created: 1/84, Binghamton, NY, New York City). Duration c. 30 min. Premiere, Roulette Performance Space, NYC, 1/31/84 (1) Prelude 2) Colonne 3) Vif. 4) La Reve 5) Nydia 6) The Labyrinth of Sound. Video and stills-Mary Ross, Eric Ross-Theremin, electronics, guitar, piano, Youseff Yancy-Theremin, trumpet. Atsuko Yuma, Mary Ross-voices.
Harry F. Olson
Bach Fugue No, 2 in C minor
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Johann Sebastian’s Bach “Fugue No, 2 in C minor” from “The Well Tempered Clavier” performed by the RCA Mark I synthesizer. Taken from the 1955 “The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer” L.P. (RCA Victor Red Seal – LM-1922).
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Dec
Dec
Lydia Kavina is one of the greatest thereminists of all time. The last protégé of Léon Theremin, she started studying the theremin at the age of nine. She played a fundamental role in the so-called “renaissance of the theremin,” performing all over the world, making recordings, participating in film soundtracks, writing original music for theremin, and teaching the instrument to new generations of thereminists. I had the pleasure of exchanging a few words with her.
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Oct
Oct
The latest release of Timeless Sonic Factory, the creature of long-time thereminist Maurizio “ErMan” Mansueti, is a beautiful, intense, and captivating theremin concept album. In addition to putting the theremin at center stage, it shows it in a new light.
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Sep
Sep
Zenaide Hanenfeldt was one of Leon Theremin’s first associates in the United States. She played a leading role, from 1929 to 1934, in the American adventure of Leon Theremin, appearing in some of the most important theremin events of the period and experiencing a brief period of intense and ephemeral celebrity as a theremin diva. Later, she almost disappeared into oblivion, confined to stingy annotations in the history of the theremin. Let’s find out a little more about her.
