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Michael Lvovich Glinsky (Lithuanian: Mykolas Glinskis; Russian: Михаил Львович Глинский; Polish: Michał Gliński; 1460s – 24 September 1534) was a noble from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of distant Tatar extraction, who was also a tutor of his grand-nephew, Ivan the Terrible.
Oct 31, 2019 3:00 PMNov 19, 2019 8:24 AM. Leon Theremin, also known as Lev Termen, demonstrates his musical instrument. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Newsletter. Imagine a UFO descending from the heavens, its round disk pale against the night sky. What sound does it make?
Jan 1, 2000 · A phenomenal book. Fifteen years of incredible archival research has created - I believe - the definitive biography of Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeyevich Termen). Glinsky has enacted a profound work of scholarship here, working the archive but also opening and understanding the (large) gaps and silences in the Theremin narrative.
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"Glinsky has traced the fascinating story of Lev Termen, Russian scientist, radio engineer and inventor of the first electronic musical instrument. The haunting wail of the 'theremin' is perhaps best known from the Beach Boys' 1966 hit 'Good Vibrations', but Glinsky demonstrates that its inventor deserves to be more than a footnote in the ...
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Oct 27, 2017 · “It’s simply the electromagnetic fields in your own body, what we refer to as capacitance, affecting the circuitry through the electromagnetic field surrounding some device,” says Albert Glinsky, an American composer and the author of Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage.
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Nov 11, 2018 · According to the book Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Dr. Albert Glinsky, Lev Termen had been relocated to Petrograd in 1919 to work in the Electrotechnical Institute. He was working on an "international-reception radio station" when he received a phone call from a former colleague, Abram Fedorovich.
Albert Glinsky's biography places the inventor at world events stretching from the Russian Revolution through the Cold War to perestroika. Throughout, he spins whimsy and treachery into an astonishing drama of one man's hidden loyalties, mixed motivations, and irrepressibly creative spirit.
