AETHERPHON, global theremin family

We would go! No telling when Moog will put on another theremin festival and we're getting antsy.

Sheri and I had a wonderful time at the 2008 festival in Asheville, NC, ranking only behind our wedding/honeymoon.

Philip Neidlinger

--- In aetherphon@yahoogroups.com, David V <porphyrous@...> wrote:
>
>   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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