AETHERPHON, global theremin family

Olivia,

Heh, nobody is gonna get kicked out for not playing! :-)

I can't say enough nice things about how cooperative Brian Brandt at 
Mode Records was in granting airplay permission for Lydia's first CD. 
In stark contrast to the folks in Germany who released Barbara 
Buchholz's album, which took six months of ignored e-mails and finally 
getting Barbara to thunk the label president upside the head after Ether 
Fest '05 to get permission for. :-)

Your contributions to the theremin community have been dramatic and 
historically valuable.  It's too bad those interviews were published 
while I was out of music...I'll have to go see if I can score back 
issues from somewhere.  I subscribe off and on to both Keyboard and 
Electronic Musician.

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Olivia Mattis wrote:
> Well, it's my turn in the "who are we" parade.
> 
> I'm Olivia Mattis, and I was fortunate to have the first interview  
> with Leon Theremin when he first emerged from Russia in 1989 at age  
> 93. My interview was subsequently published in Keyboard magazine, and  
> is available in several places on the internet. See, for example:
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> http://www.oddmusic.com/theremin/theremin_interview_1.html
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> I also published a "Theremin Master Class" interview with Lydia  
> Kavina in Electronic Musician.
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> And I also Executive Produced, financed and wrote the program notes  
> for Lydia's debut CD, Music From the Ether.
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> Plus I volunteered a year of my time to organize the First  
> International Theremin Festival in Portland, Maine in 1997, which was  
> the birthplace of the Levnet group as well as the launching site for  
> Bob Moog's Ethervox and incidentally the starting point for many  
> theremin friendships that have grown and developed since that time.
> 
> And I also brought about the reconstruction of Var\ufffdse's work  
> Ecuatorial in its original instrumentation with the theremin cello.   
> See the following link for the full story:
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> http://www.thereminvox.com/story/496/
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> Plus I own an RCA theremin as well as one of Floyd Engels' replica  
> diamond shaped speakers.
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> And I've found happy homes for several other RCAs (I've had as many  
> as four).
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> But... I'm not a performer. Even so, please don't kick me out of this  
> group, because I'm happy to be here.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Olivia
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