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"Song of India" on the Theremin (Glenn Sparks)

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Uploaded by on Jul 20, 2006

I play songs on the theremin with musical accompaniment. This is a rendition of Song of India. The excellent videography is by my daughter, Jordan Sparks. The theremin is an Etherwave made from a kit obtained from Big Briar. My brother-in-law, Dan Wilcox, did the soldering of the solid-state electronics and essentially assembled the entire instrument. I was once within days of performing on the theremin on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion when he visited Purdue University on April 7, 2001. I was scheduled to play "Star Dust Melody," but my act was replaced (with apologies and regrets) with the "Shaker Bell Emsemble" (whatever THAT is). Garrison, you owe me one.

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  • holy crap! this is in the description, "The excellent videography is by my daughter, Jordan Sparks." as in American Idol's Jordan Sparks?!

  • No...this is a different Jordan Sparks...as indicated by the spelling of "Jordan." The winner of American Idol spells her name "Jordin" Sparks.

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  • You must be an appealing professor to your students if you introduce such interesting instruments in your classes. Very nice!

  • beautiful, im glad i stumbled across this video ^-^

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  • is he a behavioral scientist? If he is, then I was reading about his objective perspective about the DIET COKE ELEPHANT COMMERCIAL in the book of Em Griffin. He was really great in explaining! ^^/

  • ^_^ mmmm

  • That is such a beautiful song - I'd forgotten about it until you played it again. I keep coming back to have a listen to this.

  • nice

  • Well, Garrison Keillor has all the musical taste of a Quaker Rice Cake anyway. Thank God for YouTube (-:

  • lol,it's not easy.... being green.

    great job though.

  • Heh, I thought he was humming at first. Amazing instrument.

  • Gorgeous! You and your family are quite talented.

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