VLVL2(3): The Corvairs--Theremin???

[pynchonoid]

--- Richard Romeo <romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> speaking of gorgeous sounds, how 'bout the theremin?

It was in the news recently, on the death of Rosalyn
Tureck, whose career contains echoes of several of
Pynchon's passages regarding the Western musical
tradition:


Rosalyn Tureck, the "High Priestess of Bach," Is Dead
at 88

Rosalyn Tureck, a leading performer of Bach on the
piano, harpsichord and clavichord, has died, WQXR
radio in New York City reports. She was 88.

According to writer Teri Noel Towe, a friend, Tureck
died on Thursday evening in the Riverdale section of
the Bronx, New York.

Tureck was born in Chicago, where she made her solo
recital debut at age 9. One of her piano teachers was
Sophia Brilliant-Liven, a student of Anton Rubinstein,
to whom Tureck traced her technique. She attended the
Juilliard School, where she studied with Olga
Samaroff; during her tenure there she made her
Carnegie Hall debut performing on the theremin, the
electronic instrument invented by Leon Theremin, with
whom she had studied. 

In 1936, at age 22, she made her New York orchestral
debut, performing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A year
later, she began an annual series of all-Bach recitals
at New York's Town Hall; she would eventually add
similar series in London, Copenhagen, Montreal and
other cities. She made the first of her many European
tours in 1947 and would later travel to South America,
South Africa, Israel and Asia. She began to conduct in
1956, appearing with the Philharmonia Orchestra of
London, the New York Philharmonic and the National
Symphony Orchestra, as well as her own Tureck Bach
Players and other groups.

Tureck was the author of many articles and several
books, including the three-volume An Introduction to
the Performance of Bach. She founded the International
Bach Institute in 1966 and went on to create the
Tureck Bach Institute and its successor, the Tureck
Bach Research Foundation.

Although she was best known as a Bach specialist,
Tureck was also a passionate advocate of contemporary
music, founding Composers of Today and the Society of
Contemporary Music. She gave the world premieres of
William Schumann's Piano Concerto and David Diamond's
Piano Sonata No. 1, which had been written with her in
mind. In 1952, she presented the first American
performance for tape and electronic music; later, she
would perform Bach on the Moog synthesizer.

Tureck taught at the Philadelphia Conservatory of
Music, Juilliard and the University of California at
San Diego.


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