Tuesday, August 27, 2024

August 27 - Leon Theremin (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for August 27th are here: Lester Young (2019), Rebecca Clarke; Eric Coates (2020), Leon Theremin (2021), Eric Coates (2022), and Leon Theremin (2023)

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Leon Theremin (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993) was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eternal Questions


With less than perfect rhyme the cherubim

Proclaim the life and times of Theremin.

 

But what explains this assonancial blunder?

Were they confused by God’s Essential Thunder?

Or is the whirring Music of the Spheres

Disrupted when a theremin appears,

And this disturbs rhyming birthday hymn

Intoned by the eternal cherubim?

 

 

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