Leon theremin biography book

  • In this first full biography of Leon Theremin, Albert Glinsky depicts the inventor's nearly one-hundred-year life span as a microcosm of the twentieth century.
  • Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and is regarded as the definitive work on the life of Leon Theremin.
  • Albert Glinsky's biography places the inventor at world events stretching from the Russian Revolution through the Cold War to perestroika.

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    "As hair-raising as any Holocaust narrative[Theremin's] toils in electronic espionage read like a mix of John LeCarre, Franz Kafka, and Popular Mechanics."                                                                                     
                                                                            —Baltimore City Paper

    "Albert Glinsky's Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage is the most exciting music biography I've ever read. Glinsky's page-turner reads like a detective story, and he fills in gaps in his subject's mysterious life with the som

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    By: Sean Michaels

    Fiction inspired by the lives of Leon Theremin and Clara Rockmore. Imagine what might have happened after Leon Theremin returned to Russia and longed for his true love (and knows Kung Fu).

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    The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

    By: Tracy Farr

    A fictional account of Lena Gaunt, the world's first theremin player.

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    Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage

    By: Albert Glinsky

    A must-read for any true theremin enthusiast! Dr. Albert Glinsky provides a deep look into the life of Leon Theremin and the marvelous invention that bears his name.

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    Soviet Faust: Leon Theremin - Pioneer of Electronic Art

    Leon Theremin, born at the end of the 19th Century, died at the end of the 20th, was a Russian and Soviet inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. He was also the inventor of interlace, a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal, widely used in video and television technology. His research helped protect the Kremlin and as an agent of the 'organs' (as the intelligence agency in the USSR was known) he created extraordinary security and listening devices. In the USA he became a musical celebrity, mixing with the cream of the musical elite and that of society.