Theremin: ETHER MUSIC AND ESPIONAGE (Music in American Life)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252072758 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Written by an award-winning composer whose music has been performed in the US, Europe, and the Far East, this title combines the whimsical and the treacherous into a chronicle that takes in various things from the KGB to Macy's store windows, Alcatraz to the Beach Boys, Hollywood thrillers to the United Nations, Joseph Stalin to Shirley Temple.
"Heavy handing anticommunism mars otherwise good story" according to Erik Strommen. Glinsky has done a great job of compiling the factual story of Leon Theremin and electronic music, particularly the Theremin instrument through the years.I have several reservations. First, the writing style is pedestrian and not terribly stylish or interesting. Second, it would have been nice to have a bit more detail on how the instrument actually works. Definitive biography of the "Soviet Edison" Leon Theremin Scott Marshall Author Albert Glinsky has molded his meticulous research into a spectacularly detailed, involving, and readable biography of one of the most mysterious figures of the jazz age. But, the book is also a glimpse in rare detail of the dark nightmare of Communist Russia. The supernatural inventor of Steven Martin's entertaining but inaccurate movie biography (. "Electronic Music Through the Century" according to Rob Hardy. You have heard the music of the theremin, but you may not have known it at the time. It is an exceedingly pure tone, electronically generated, which has been used in various ways since the instrument was invented. It was used with distinction in the Hitchcock psychoanalysis thriller _Spellbound_ and in Billy Wilder's _Lost Weekend_, but it is best known f
From Publishers Weekly For this biography, Glinsky admirably resurrects the name of Leon Theremin, the Soviet inventor of an electronic musical instrument played by moving one's hands in the space between two antennae, but his use of Theremin's life as a metaphor for the Cold War leads him astray. After he returned to the Soviet Union in 1938, he was arrested and spent time in a labor camp before he was freedAonly to be forced to remain in service to the state. Glinsky, a composer and professor at Merc