Blueblut, Bohemia After Dark, Carol Alston Gospel of the Blues (Passau Jazz Festival, 8-9 August 2023. Reviews by Oliver Weindling) This is the second of Oliver Weindling's reports from Jazzfest Passau. He covered the opening concert by Leo Genovese (link below), and was back for a couple of evenings in early August. He writes: Blueblut…
Also, the 89th annual Autumn Hawk Watch will get underway at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, and the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival will showcase the daily life of the Pennsylvania Germans in the
Emulating a disembodied voice, the theremin s potential was soon realized in America s burgeoning film industry, where it was regularly employed to accompany the supernatural and extraterrestrial a flying saucer, a ray gun, an alien creature, and all sorts of other phenomena in black-and-white B movies of the 1950s. Beyond that niche, the theremin also found a place albeit marginally in classical and popular music.
Robert Moog was the first to mass-produce the theremin, which then inspired him to create his now iconic line of synthesizers. Moog died in 2005, but his company, Moog Music, continues producing synthesizers and theremins to this day.