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Clara Rockmore
Clara Rockmore (born Clara Reisenberg, 1911 - 1998), along with Lydia Kavina, is considered to be one of the two greatest players of the Theremin electronic musical instrument since its invention and was without peer in the early decades of its use. While most listeners familiar with the Theremin have heard it used mostly as a weird special-effects device, Rockmore, as a classically-trained musician, used it to perform beautiful renditions of conventional classical works. Under her control, the Theremin sounded like a blend of the violin and the human voice.
Rockmore had a number of gifts that enabled her to play the Theremin so expertly. She had active perfect pitch, critical to playing an instrument that can generate tones of any frequency. She was a child prodigy as a violinist, but was unable to play it past her teen years, because of bone problems due to childhood malnutrition in her native Russia. She had extremely precise and rapid control of her movements, an absolute requirement for playing an instrument that depends on motion and proximity, rather than touch. One final advantage is that she worked with Léon Theremin directly from the early days of the instrument's development. Indeed, a number of refinements of the early instruments were due to her input or were on her behalf.
Rockmore knew how to evoke the music she wanted from the Theremin, and could do so in a way that was beautiful to watch as well as to hear. It was Theremin's instrument as the inventor, but it was hers as a performer.
CDs
Videos
- "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey", MGM/UA Home Entertainment, 1994
External links
- http://www.thereminvox.com/article/articleview/21/1/22/ Theremin Vox - In Clara's Words (interview of Clara by Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer)
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