Theremin - Clara Rockmore play "Hebrew Melody" (Achron)

[JESUS1John]

magnificent !

[solnegrolunaroja]

I insist, she's a vision from the future! To me, she is a suspect of beeing a time traveler making fun of us! :D

[opheliasong]

Breathtaking...she was the master.

[moloch49]

That rendition of "Hebrew Melody" has the same heartbreaking emotionality of

the late Josef Hassid's transcendent performance; I wept through it, also.

Clara Rockmore was a true virtuosa of the theremin!

[cadenzastringsnc]

wow this is way better than the violin version!

[KevyKooKoo]

This has completely creeped me out...

[technocrash09]

@KevyKooKoo Yup-----Totally awesome----and Totally creeeeeeeeeeeeeee-pyyyyyyyyyyy­yy OOOOOoooooo!

[Rayo000008]

She looks in total concentration, like in trance... as all musicians who becomes one with his or her instrument, which makes them really good players, and not like those who care about how they'll look in the pictures or film...

[madamerotten]

My sister got a toy theremin for her birthday, and she plays this as well or better than Carla Rockmore.

[ananixon]

@madamerotten It's Clara.

[BandofPants]

@madamerotten I doubt it, suga :)

[Yavor54]

The reason there aren't more theremin players is that it is possibly the most difficult instrument to play well. As a performing musician, I thought I could easily pick this up. Nope. Violin was easier. You have to almost stop breathing while playing. The exact hand formations are only one thing to learn.

Without perfect pitch, you will have great difficulty playing it.

Clara was the top player ever... better than Theremin himself.

[Atephobic]

Incredible.

Makes me feel like I'm gonna cry everytime I hear it.

[razorman916]

I need to learn to play this.

[moloch49]

Eerie, but compelling. I don't know why more people don't learn to play the theremin; it has great possibilities as a conventional musical instrument...

[madamerotten]

@moloch49 But not more possibilites than, say, the jug, or the Jew's harp.

[chuck4419]

this made me hurt in such a strange way. powerful, powerful stuff.

[metteholm75]

I think, the tone sounds like an insect.

[damienxxxpele]

i'd like to see michael J. Fox play the theremin LOL

[chilena13120]

enorme!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[TheRazorshadow]

these videos need more views, seriously, this is hauntingly beautifull, so hypnotizing, shes so focused on what shes doing!

[Rudreax]

It's amazing how she could continue to keep so perfect, precise control over her hands and arms for so long. She was an amazing musician.

[myco578]

would parkinsons come in handy when playing the therimen?

but in all seriousnes this is beautiful

[prohibitionrewster]

it may seem that way but no. with parkinsons, you'd have no control vibrato

[redenamel]

Wait, how can you hate the way she looks when shes playing? Thats absolutely ridiculous. She's totally amazing and being able to see her play with such focus and passion is brilliant. Plus she looks beautiful,even in her old age, shes gorgeous!

[lsdvine]

@redenamel fuckin right

[stradneri]

She's incredible...

[kingofphinland]

i hate the way she looks while playing the theremin, its like she is reliving a bad memory each time she plays

[iridescentgreen]

maybe she has emotions that come out both through her playing and through her facial expressions...it's kind of a melancholy song.

[onlyincrediblepuit]

This is so creepy...

[damienxxxpele]

this is beautiful!

[dubbedcrazy]

she's not playing a thing.....she's a ventiloquist *_*

[iridescentgreen]

are you not at all familiar with the workings of the theremin? or was that a joke? :)

[dubbedcrazy]

a very lame joke at best *_*

[iridescentgreen]

good. just had to check.

[scottydoo32]

thats great my friend :P

[MarylandJuly89]

i never heard the theremin played like this, its BEAUTIFUL.

[Mktryk]

This was definitely Clara Rockmore playing the theremin accompanied by her sister Nadia Reisenberg on the piano! Those ladies' talents were nothing short of phenonemal and seeing them perform in that trance is incredible!

[leroyosmon]

Beautiful. What is the use of the left hand?

[TeaserandtheFirecat]

The left hand is used for volume control. The farther she moves her left hand away from the antenna, the louder it gets. Similarly, the right hand controls the pitch.

[RadioN2GOD]

It varies the amplitude of the waveform. You must remember that the Theremin is one of the earliest analog electronic sythesizers, in fact Moog's famous synth was entierly based upon the Theremin. Moog was an accomplished Theremin artist before he made his own famous device.

[nanapopolvuh]

absolutly amazing woman and instrument...

[youchristotube]

clara rockmore ROCK MORE

[martian067]

Is she using her voice as an instrument

sounds like a violin when heard from afar?

Pretty weird sound.....,

[zipape]

No, she isn't using her voice,that weird sound comes from the theremin,which is the instrument she is playing in this video.The theremin has the peculiarity to be the only musical instrument on earth to be played without any phisical contact between the player and the instrument.Freaky,huh?Anyway you can find more informations about the theremin on the web (ex.Wikipedia).bye!

[gwincinski]

Thank you Clara!

[lredmon]

The Theremin from the forties used mostly in movies...more than one Hitchcock I believe. One was .."Spellbound".. She is Russian, that is why she is so expressive in her face. Well done !

[Makana]

Right, because only Russians are capable of making facial expressions.

[lredmon]

No, Dope, I did not say Russians can only make facial expressions in music. Reading comprehension a hard subject in 7th grade for ya?

[Makana]

You said that the reason why she's so expressive in her face is because she's Russian.

[damenschwalbe]

that is what he said,lol.

[dgjiephfurreighR]

notice she hasn't played anything really fast in any of the videos?

[subz6]

what's your point? you can't feel the music if it's too fast

[akinderreality]

does it need to be fast to be good?

[alexanderdeepacifici]

its just way too good. she's incredible. i love you clara

[FighterMoody]

My Godness!! I didnt know this instrument and I didnt know her...until today... so amazing!

[HartfordTommy]

She was bred to be a great violinist, by the famed pedagogue, Leopold Auer. He lobbied for her early admittance to Russia's greatest music conservatory,

in the year 1915. She was four years old. Her promise

was such, that the professors unanimously voted to allow

"me, an infant! imagine!" into the fold.

[HartfordTommy]

Auer continued as her mentor into Clara's adulthood.

He even emigrated to the USA in 1922, same year as did

Clara's family. Clara and pianist sister, Nadia, were

already a sensation in European tours.

When, around 1928, Clara permanently injured her shoulder by over-practising (Auer wrote a book about violin teaching, warning sternly against stress injury),

he was crushed, but angry: "How could you do this to -me-!".

Auer died in 1930

[HartfordTommy]

Fortune or fate, Clara met Lev Termin in NYC in (I believe) late 1927. It was an instant love, but with restrictions. See the documentary film,

"Theremin, an Electronic Odyssey" for much more.

[HartfordTommy]

Some of what I've just related was told to me by Clara Rockmore. I knew her well in her last few years.

I'm Reid Welch. And Clara was one of the very finest, if not the finest musician I've ever known. And I've known quite a few in my career.

[LokiFreign]

There is no other musician that can affect me the way she has. It goes without saying that no one will ever master this instrument the way she did. She's a true inspiration, and an angelic artist.

[kacourse]

Beautiful! I have it w. Aaron Rosand vln, John Covelli pno. Album is 'Hebraic Legacies'. Thank you for this earthseeker!

[earthseeker]

beyond words...

Thank you for putting this on youtube.

[3Mike64]

I dont get this...

[hypnoshado]

AHHAHAHAHA!

[Fedmund]

T_T so beautiful

[hardwaremister101]

The way she expresses this masterpiece on theremin is just... WOW...