Clara Rockmore ( born Clara Rockmore ), nee Clara Aronovna Reisenberg ( March 9, 1911 , Vilna - May 10, 1998 , New York ) - American musician, performer on theremin . Sister Nadia Reisenberg .
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Date of Birth | March 9, 1911 |
Place of Birth | Vilna Russian empire |
Date of death | May 10, 1998 (87 years) |
Place of death | New York , USA |
A country | USA |
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Biography
Born in Vilna, March 9, 1911. Parents - Aron Ioselevich Reisenberg and Rohka (Rokhl) Haimovna Grad, natives of Kovno . The elder sisters are Nadia (1904) and Anna (1905). The girl-child prodigy, Clara Reisenberg began to learn the violin in Petrograd , at the age of five, from Leopold Auer himself . However, later (as alleged, due to problems with the formation of bones that arose in childhood in a hungry revolutionary Russia), Klara, for health reasons, abandoned the career of a violinist. Since 1922, the Reisenberg family has lived in the United States.
In 1927, Clara Reisenberg met Lev Theremin , the inventor of the Theremin , who at that time worked in the United States, and learned directly from him to play the new instrument.
A violin virtuoso, she quickly mastered the art of performance on the Theremin, and Lev Sergeyevich did not like the soul in her new student. On her 18th birthday, she gave her a cake that worked on the principle of theremin, it began to rotate and the electric candle in it began to burn when Klara was approaching it. <...> Clara became an outstanding “Termenukoksistka”. Thanks to her, Termena's invention became widely known in the USA. She was fascinated by the great conductor Leopold Stokowski , he wrote a concert for theremin with an orchestra, which Clara performed accompanied by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra [1] .
Having a professional music education, she largely contributed to the improvement of the instrument itself (in particular, she suggested making more “sharp” the characteristic of the control channel for the volume of sound that changes with the help of the antenna for the left hand) and the playing technique on it, striving for the performance of the classical repertoire ( “Vocalise” by Rachmaninov , “The Swan ” by Saint-Saens , etc.).
Clara Reisenberg-Rockmore gave concerts in the USA and other countries for many years (sometimes with her sister Nadia as accompanist), left a number of recordings. Especially for her, Anis Fuleikhan wrote a concert for the theremin and orchestra, the concert was performed jointly with the New York Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. In 1977, producer Robert Moog published Clara 's album “ The Art of the Theremin ” ( Russian Art of the Theremin ), on which she performs famous works of the late XIX - early XX centuries.
Memory
- Google Doodle in honor of the 105th anniversary of March 9, 2016 [2] .
Discography
- The Art of the Theremin (1977)
- Clara Rockmore's Lost Theremin Album (2006)
- individual tracks in the collection Ionisation (1927-1945) (2011)
- selected tracks in the collection Music in & On the Air (2011)
Films and videos
- Martin, Steven M. (Director). Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey [Film and DVD]. MGM. (1995). Checked September 11, 2009.
- Moog, Robert (Producer). Clara Rockmore: The Greatest Theremin Virtuosa [Videotape (VHS)]. Moog Music and Little Big Films. (1998).
- Moog, Robert (Producer). Two Theremin Classics [DVD]. Moog Music and Little Big Films. (2005).
Pop Culture
- One of the songs in the 2007 album Protect Yourself from Hollywood of the Irish electropop group The Garland Cult is called “Clare Rockmore”.
- The novel by Sean Michaels Us Conductors , the winner of the 2014 Hiller Prize , describes the relationship between Rockmore and Leo Theremin.
Notes
- ↑ Alexander Kharkov. Theremin - The voice of Theremin
- ↑ Clara Rockmore's 105th Birthday . www.google.com. The appeal date is March 9, 2016.