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 ...

[Extreme Kits] asks the question: “What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?” We have to admit, we know what a thermin is, but that’s as far as we got. You’ve surely seen and heard a theremin, the ...

Russian Soviet inventor Leon Theremin didn’t just invent the touchless, singing electronic wave machine that bears his last name and which briefly made Clara Rockmore a household name in the mid-20th ...

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 ...

The stage of Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall might have been set for Funnyman Joe Cook one evening last week, or it might have been a physicist’s laboratory. It was crowded with odd-shaped pieces of ...

During Armen Ra’s last concert at the Gershwin Hotel, a concert audience sat transfixed at the sight onstage. Wearing heavy makeup and a simple black evening dress, the Armenian Mr. Ra stood in front ...