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Hi David,

Great idea.  Will be interested in helping with this.

Note that I co-sponser the Kansas City Regional Electro-music  
festival, which is scheduled for July 22, 23, and 24 2010.  As long as  
a theremin festival does not conflict with those dates, I would be  
able to help with this.

All the best!

-- Kevin


Quoting David V <porphyrous@...>:

>   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
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