The Rolling Stones’ dip into psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request, is a wild ride from start to finish. There’s an element of futurism found on this hard rock record, too, which called for the ...

Strange it is. Stranger the workstyle. Strangest the name. The person you see in the picture above is not a magician. He is a thereminist, who assumes a magician-like veil, all thanks to the musical ...

Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom. Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is ...

Pamelia Kurstin loves roller-skating to disco. She'll cut your hair for a six-pack of beer. And she's one of the world's top virtuosos on the space age-sounding musical instrument called the theremin.

Eyck, a German-Sorbian, now 37, had been on autopilot since the beginnings of her career as a professional musician, composer and ­vocalist. In the years before the pandemic, she had been touring ...

None of this applied, mind you, to seven-year-old Carolina Eyck, studying classical violin and piano in East Germany in the ’90s. The theremin in the loungeroom was just another gizmo Dad acquired for ...

In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...

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When the Houston Ballet opens its season on Sept. 6, with "The Little Mermaid", there will be an unusual instrument in the orchestra pit. The theremin, which famed music critic Harold C. Schonberg ...