Re: theremin URL correction

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Give Clara Rockmore a listen, before dismissing or disparaging the
theremin.  While it lends itself easily to bizarre science-fiction effects
(it was used in that capacity in Hitchcock's "The Birds,"), and while it
may, in untrained hands, evoke an electric musical saw or a dybbuk, the
theremin under Rockmore's control is indisputably a vox humana.  I'd think
it would easily find a place in a music in which instruments habitually
mimic the tone and phrasing of vocal song.  All we lack are musicians who
can match Clara Rockmore's mastery of the instrument.

Owen

TomP317 (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> Clara Rockmore. Thankyou for this correction. I saw her on a film. The
> intrument looked so real - such a possibility.
>
> Yours,
>
> Tom Payne
>

--
Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
Repair, Construction and Design of Musical Instruments

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