Check it out. Clara Rockmore with a theremin.
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Today is Clara Rockmore's birthday. Via wikipedia:
"Born as Clara Reisenberg in Vilnius, Vilna Governorate (now Lithuania), Rockmore was a child prodigy on the violin and entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory at the age of five. She remains to this day the youngest student ever to be admitted to the institution. She studied violin under the virtuoso Leopold Auer. Unfortunately, bone problems due to childhood malnutrition forced her to abandon violin performance past her teen years. That, however, led her to discover the newborn electronic instrument the theremin, and become perhaps its most renowned player."
This one in via Alex Timchak.
Not only did Clara Rockmore become the instrument’s most well-known performer, she also influenced its development by convincing Theremin that the instrument could offer greater range of notes.
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