In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...

Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom ...

Thereminist Carolina Eyck, to the conductor's left, plays "Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra" with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, as composer Dalit Warshaw watches, following the ...

The popularity of the theremin comes in waves. Now, as its appreciation is once again on the rise, a group of theremin enthusiasts from around the city have teamed up to extoll the virtues of the ...

Leon Theremin’s strange electronic musical instrument that leant its otherworldly sound to cheesy horror movie soundtracks and was emulated on The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” is about to mark its ...

In its century on earth, the theremin has acquired a reputation as a sonic novelty. Even if you’ve never seen one, you’ve probably heard one; for many, the eerie wail of this early electronic ...

The San Diego Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Jung-Ho Pak, will perform an original composition for the theremin by former UCSD graduate Linda Kernohan during its “Surprise! Surprise ...

When the Houston Ballet opens its season on Sept. 6, with "The Little Mermaid", there will be an unusual instrument in the orchestra pit. The theremin, which famed music critic Harold C. Schonberg ...

To mark the 100th birthday of the theremin, the NY THEREMIN SOCIETY is pleased to announce the release of THEREMIN 100 - a compilation featuring 50 international theremin artists from 18 countries ...

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