Clara Rockmore's 105th Birthday GOOGLE DOODLE

[steve j sherman]

Dear Levren -- I hope this finds you well -- does anyone still use this site?? Anyhow, very exciting news:  Wednesday March 9 would have been Clara Rockmore's 105th birthday, and to celebrate and honor her life and legacy, Google is producing an international Google Doodle.   Many of you know that when you open Google (www.google.com), the homepage logo GOOGLE is often creatively transformed into some sort of tribute or even interactive design to honor someone or something special in history...    Google states that the goal of the Doodle is "to delight users, teach them something new, and honor a truly inspirational person who changed history."     For the entire day of Wednesday March 9, starting in ten minutes EST, the Google Doodle will feature an interactive tribute to Clara.     I haven't yet been allowed to see it so I have no idea what to expect, other than what they told me some weeks ago -- which is that an animated Clara-doodle will help you to actually play a theremin, starting with simple songs (Mary Had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkle, etc.), and if you get through those songs, you are invited to try playing Saint Säens' The Swan.    If you do well, you'll be rewarded with a performance of The Swan, played by Clara and her sister Nadia Reisenberg from the Delos CD "The Art of the Theremin".     Whatever it will be, it will be very cool, and we are delighted and humbled to have Clara thus honored around the world.      Enjoy.   I hope you'll all check it out, and tell as many people as you can... In peace, Steve

[Rob Schwimmer]

Hi, Steve!

I caught wind of it this morning and posted it on Levnet Facebook, Theremania Facebook, and Theremin World so hopefully a lot of us but more importantly a lot of "them" will see it!

About to check it out now!

Hope all is good with you
Rob

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[David Curtis]

Well designed and executed as far as these things go. The ability to change waveform was a nice touch. I did miss the iconic diamond speaker. As Rob implies, it will raise awareness. 

[steve j sherman]

It's a lot of fun, even if they decided to dispense with all the other songs and stick with The Swan -- but how cool to be able to free-form on it...   We're getting emails and calls from everywhere -- the global exposure is beyond anything we've ever experienced or could imagine.   More people around the world are discovering Clara and the theremin today than on any other day or at any other time in history, to date...  

Google gets the credit for the design, graphics and execution.  Of course, it's funny that they turned Clara into a lefty -- I imagine Lev is smiling in his grave, feeling mildly vindicated in a way...

Enjoy.   Steve

[Pierce Krouse]

Lev?

Don't you mean Louis?

;-)

[steve j sherman]

HA HA -- I saw that, and yet in the same article, further down, they had him as Leon...    Hard to find good editors these days that can both read and write...

SJS

[mpic...@earthlink.net]

Dear Steve,

Saw Clara on Google doodle.

How fabulous!

XOXO,

Sarah