Lara Wickes is driving through the rolling Hollywood hills after another long day at the office. The accomplished oboe and theremin player makes a living regularly recording for television shows and ...
Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom ...
SHERIDAN — Musical instruments come in all shapes, sizes and colors. The variations are nearly endless, but most people know a musical instrument when they see one. That may not be the case for the ...
Front Range Chamber Players will present “Theremin: Hollywood to Wyoming” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in the University of Wyoming’s Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The free ...
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 ...
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 ...
You play the instrument with your hands, but instead of hitting keys or strumming strings, you just wave your arms around the theremin’s two antennas and manipulate electric currents that then pour ...
Pamelia Kurstin loves roller-skating to disco. She'll cut your hair for a six-pack of beer. And she's one of the world's top virtuosos on the space age-sounding musical instrument called the theremin.