AETHERPHON, global theremin family

Hello all,

I'm sending this message to all of my subscribers on spellboundradio and 
aetherphon (I've you're on one but not the other, e-mail me and I'll set 
you up), plus Levnet and my Facebook and Twitter resources as well.  The 
idea is that I establish a critical mass of interest and support so that 
it doesn't just become yet another flight of fancy that I end up 
forgetting about. :-)

For a couple of years now, I've been inspired by the theremin festivals 
put on by Moog, as well as Gordon's annual event in the UK, and even 
Coralie's Swiss event.  Last year, Olivia observed that I was perhaps 
uniquely positioned to pursue a theremin festival, and I've been 
pondering the idea for awhile now.  Late last year, I arranged lunch 
with Dr. Fred Willman, coordinator of Music Education at the University 
of Missouri at St. Louis, who turns out to be the only member of UMSL's 
music faculty who owns and plays a theremin!  Total stupid luck, I only 
picked him to contact because of his position at the school.  So he had 
some interest, but without more momentum, things didn't go anywhere last 
year.  I'm hoping that we can get something rolling so that in two 
years, Labor Day weekend of 2012 (assuming the world hasn't ended by 
then ;-) maybe we can get something rolling.

I struck upon the idea of UMSL as a host organization because they would 
have the facilities to host such an event, would be positioned to 
scrounge for money to fund it, has a world class performing venue (the 
Touhill Arts Center, home of the Arianna String Quartet), has a radio 
station for the inevitable simulcasting, has a movie theatre for showing 
theremin movies, plus it's on the light rail line from the airport.

If you have experience organizing festivals, I would like to hear from 
you.  I would like to write up an organizational plan by the end of the 
year and at least sketch an outline of the event.  If you think you 
might be interested in attending a festival in St. Louis, please drop me 
a quick note about that too.  If you have ideas about what you think 
you'd like to see and hear at such a festival, I'm open to your ideas.

Thanks for your time, and I hope to get feedback from you!

David V
Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin

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