Remember The Day The Earth Stood Still?
That is, in truth, my first cousin (my father's mother's first cousin) who makes the news announcement
of what has fallen in Washington. Drew Pearson was a Quaker, a pacifist. I am a pacifist too.
It is not a fiction that Drew and I are bonded of blood for truth.
I was her last personal friend in life. You see Clara here, about 1974,
as video-graphed by our mutual friend, famed Robert Moog, whom I met in December, 1994.
I restored this piano, a 1930 wedding gift to Clara from her sister, to playing order during the summer of 1995, on site.
We were, and are...
In the background of Hebrew Melody you see an original oil painting of
Paul Robeson, her closest friend, through the thirties, until his death.
Paul gave her that portrait. We see Paul in the video below in that costume
1943
Chaunce and daunce...
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Analysts? I never saw a theremin before 1994, when Ernie obtained our RCA from Sonny Clutter, well-known collector.
The movie cited above, I never saw until the summer of 1997, at the Theremin festival in Portland, Maine.
I knew of my family connection to Pearson but had never seen or heard or read of him before that time.
Have never read of Pearson except what is published by others to Wikipedia and other online biographies.
I met Clara Rockmore by near-chance. A local friend told me, "she's still alive, Reid!"
That surprised me. So I made a point to get in contact with Clara Rockmore.
But how? By wire...
http://www.thereminvox.com/article/articleview/206/
Self introduction to Clara Rockmore, 1994=
I met Clara Rockmore by playing intuition
like she phrased the theremin,
by changing phases in the air...
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