9 March 1911 Vilnius, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
Died
10 May 1998(1998-05-10) (aged 87) New York City, U.S.
Genres
Classical music
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Violin, theremin
Musical artist
Clara Reisenberg Rockmore (9 March 1911 – 10 May 1998[2]) was a Litvak classical violin prodigy[3] and a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.[4][5][6][7][8] She was the sister of pianist Nadia Reisenberg.
^"The Clara Rockmore Collection at the Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of Maryland, College Park". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^Glinsky 2000, p. 340.
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^Ostertag, Bob (December 2002). "Human bodies, computer music" (PDF). Leonardo Music Journal. 12ÌÇ. MIT Press: 13. doi:10.1162/096112102762295070. S2CID 57571649. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2009. Clara Rockmore, in particular, became a bona fide theremin virtuoso by any definition of the word
^Paradiso, Joseph; Gershenfeld, Neil (Summer 1997). "Musical Applications of Electric Field Sensing". Computer Music Journal. series. 21 (2). MIT Press: 69–89. doi:10.2307/3681109. JSTOR 3681109. S2CID 15635946. few things since have matched Clara Rockmore's lyrical dynamics
^Pringle, Peter. "Clara Rockmore". Retrieved 10 September 2009. great virtuoso thereminist of the 20th century ... astounded critics with her theremin artistry
^Bailey, Bill (15 October 2004). "Weird science". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2009. Clara Rockmore was rightly hailed in her time as a true star. … Rockmore gained more recognition for her playing of the instrument than Theremin himself ever did for inventing it. … warm praise from music critics
^Ramone, Phil; Evin, Danielle (11 July 2008). "Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-Eight". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 September 2009. Genius thereminist Clara Rockmore
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