London Month of the Dead - Ghost in the Machine

GHOST IN THE MACHINE A Candlelit Theremin Concert with Lydia Kavina and pianist Elena Kiseleva Saturday 13th October 2018 from 7:30 pm ARRIVAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR GHOST IN THE MACHINE - As the Cemetery will be closed to the general public from 5 pm, the only entrance that will be open for the performance is the one on Old Brompton Road. We chose this entrance as it is located directly next to the West Brompton underground station. The entrance will be open from 7:10 pm and the performance will start at 7:35 pm. Please note latecomers will not be admitted. No other instrument has as much right to be called ethereal as the theremin. Not only is its tone eerie and otherworldly but its notes are literally plucked out of the ether by the player’s hands in a series of passes and gestures more reminiscent of a shaman than a musician. The instrument was first demonstrated to the public in 1920 by its Russian inventor Léon Theremin. By 1928 he was playing it on stage with the New York Philharmonic. He went on to use his knowledge of electronics and acoustics to devise a number of listening devices successfully used by the KGB. The theremin enjoyed its heyday in the 1930s and 40s where virtuosos such as Clara Rockmore, and Lucie Bigelow Rosen toured the concert halls and a whole theremin orchestra once graced the stage of Carnegie Hall. Its sound quickly became shorthand for the supernatural and sinister and was much in demand in the movie industry, being used in the soundtracks for films such as Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Robert Moog started his career building theremins in the 1950s and it inspired him to create the first synthesiser. This event has now sold out... Lydia Kavina Lydia Kavina was born in Moscow and began studying the theremin at the age of 9 under the direction of Léon Theremin himself, who was first cousin of her grandfather. She is one of the world’s leading theremin virtuosos and has helped engender the instrument’s renaissance over recent years. She has worked with composers such as Danny Elfman and Howard Shore. As well as championing new and traditional repertoire she also composes for her instrument, most notably in her Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra, first performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra, under Gil Rose, in 1997 Elena Kiseleva Elena Kiseleva was born in Moscow in 1984, and is the daughter of composer Anatoly Kisselev. She began her musical studies at the Central Music School affiliated with the Moscow Conservatory. Her public performance career began in earnest at age 11, when Elena took taken part in the Bourges Contemporary Music Festival - as the festival's youngest participant. From there numerous concerts opportunities arose, including solo concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, participation in such prestigious festivals as Moscow Autumn and the Glinka Music Festival, and concert tours in Italy, Finland, and England.mas Ang is currently on a Masters of Music year at the Royal Academy of

GHOST IN THE MACHINE
A Candlelit Theremin Concert with Lydia Kavina and pianist Elena Kiseleva
Saturday 13th October 2018 from 7:30 pm

ARRIVAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR GHOST IN THE MACHINE - As the Cemetery will be closed to the general public from 5 pm, the only entrance that will be open for the performance is the one on Old Brompton Road. We chose this entrance as it is located directly next to the West Brompton underground station. The entrance will be open from 7:10 pm and the performance will start at 7:35 pm. Please note latecomers will not be admitted.

No other instrument has as much right to be called ethereal as the theremin. Not only is its tone eerie and otherworldly but its notes are literally plucked out of the ether by the player’s hands in a series of passes and gestures more reminiscent of a shaman than a musician.

The instrument was first demonstrated to the public in 1920 by its Russian inventor Léon Theremin. By 1928 he was playing it on stage with the New York Philharmonic. He went on to use his knowledge of electronics and acoustics to devise a number of listening devices successfully used by the KGB.

The theremin enjoyed its heyday in the 1930s and 40s where virtuosos such as Clara Rockmore, and Lucie Bigelow Rosen toured the concert halls and a whole theremin orchestra once graced the stage of Carnegie Hall.

Its sound quickly became shorthand for the supernatural and sinister and was much in demand in the movie industry, being used in the soundtracks for films such as Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Robert Moog started his career building theremins in the 1950s and it inspired him to create the first synthesiser.

This event has now sold out...

Lydia Kavina
Lydia Kavina was born in Moscow and began studying the theremin at the age of 9 under the direction of Léon Theremin himself, who was first cousin of her grandfather. She is one of the world’s leading theremin virtuosos and has helped engender the instrument’s renaissance over recent years. She has worked with composers such as Danny Elfman and Howard Shore. As well as championing new and traditional repertoire she also composes for her instrument, most notably in her Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra, first performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra, under Gil Rose, in 1997

Elena Kiseleva
Elena Kiseleva was born in Moscow in 1984, and is the daughter of composer Anatoly Kisselev. She began her musical studies at the Central Music School affiliated with the Moscow Conservatory. Her public performance career began in earnest at age 11, when Elena took taken part in the Bourges Contemporary Music Festival - as the festival's youngest participant. From there numerous concerts opportunities arose, including solo concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, participation in such prestigious festivals as Moscow Autumn and the Glinka Music Festival, and concert tours in Italy, Finland, and England.mas Ang is currently on a Masters of Music year at the Royal Academy of

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