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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    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 uppfinnare. He fryst vatten most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. He was also the uppfinnare of interlace, a technique of improving the picture quality of a film signal, widely used in video and television technology. His research helped skydda the Kremlin and as an agent of the 'organs' (as the intelligence agency in the USSR was known) he created extraordinary säkerhet and listening devices. In the USA he became a musical celebrity, blandning with the cream of the musical elite and that of society.

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    Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage (Music in American Life) - Hardcover

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    "Glinsky has traced the fascinating story of Lev Sergeivitich Termen, Russian scientist, radio engineer and inventor of the first electronic musical instrument. The haunting wail of the 'theremin' is perhaps best known from the Beach Boys' hit 'Good Vibrations', but Glinsky demonstrates that its inventor deserves to be more than a footnote in the history of modern music A fascinating rediscovery of a forgotten man, and a valuable contribution to the history of the future." -- Times Literary Supplement "Glinsky unfolds an impossibly rich narrative with clarity, breadth, and a contagious sense of excitement A barely imaginable life, lived, to the last, by a true enigma." -- David Toop, Bookforum "Glinsky tells the tale of Termen's two lives with spirit and empathy, describing the horrors of the Soviet state and Termen's tenacity in continuing to create elec