For you theremin fans out there, this may well be the finest display of virtuosity on the instrument you'll ever encounter.
And here's the inventor, Leon Theremin, with a brief explanation and demonstration (you do speak Russian, don't you?).
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First time I saw a theremin was the late Sixties, when we lived in Northern VA. There was one in, I think, the Museum of History and Technology, my second favorite of the Smithsonians.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was a hands on display, meaning you could play around with it. Later, when we moved to San Diego, there was one in the Reuben Fleet Aerospace Museum for some reason.
The lady has an impressive performance there, light AND sound! She probably had to practice as hard as any dancer to get that downpat.
ReplyDeleteAnd, aside from "da", "nyet", and "tovarich", the only Rooski I speak is "nye kulturalny", which an insult to Russians, meaning "uncultured" or "not cultured".
I learned that one whilst stationed in what used to be West Germany, not too far from the international German border....
I've always found it amusing that the Russians consider "uncultured" a vile insult, considering that they themselves are barely civilized.
DeleteBut maybe that's why it stings.