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UPCOMING: Guest appearance with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis, Indiana, Jack Everly, Conductor. Four performances October 29 - November 1, 2009.
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Interview feature on Time-Warner SoCal News with Ben McCain. See abridged version at YouTube.
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Two lecture-demonstrations at the Mayfield Senior School, Pasadena, California.
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Three live performances (and theremin demonstrations) of Miklós Rózsa’s Spellbound Concerto with the New West Symphony, Boris Brott, Music Director. The performances, entitled Movie Medley, included works by Leonard Bernstein, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa and John Williams.
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Three live performances and a CD recording (on Telarc) of Miklós Rózsa’s Spellbound Concerto at the Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, conductor. The live performances were presented with the Cirque de la Symphonie. The CD is entitled Vintage Cinema and contains excerpts from a dozen great film scores from the early 1930s to the early 1960s. My photos and writeup.
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Recital at Buckingham's Choice, Adamstown, Maryland, with pianist Noel Lester.
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"Out of This World - Music for the Theremin" -- Recital at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, with pianist Noel Lester, Violinist RoseAnn Markow and Bass player David Lester.
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Lecture/demonstration and performance at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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| Two performances of the Symphonic Suite No. 1 (adapted from the film score for Komsomol: Patron of Electrification)
by Gavriil Popov -- with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, at Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
This was the U.S. premiere of this work which was composed in 1932.
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| Performed on the sound track for
Finn on the Fly,
a family comedy about a dog named Finn and his owner Peter. Both their
lives are changed when Finn is accidentally transformed into a human
when a science experiment goes wrong. Directed by Mark Jean and
starring Matthew Knight, Ryan Belleville, Ana Gasteyer. The score was
written by Jeff Danna.
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Played for an "Evening for World Harmony" at the Belair, California home of noted designer and co-founder of Global Vision for Peace Xorin Balbes.
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| Performed on the sound track for the upcoming Simpsons Video Game (based on the Fox TX animated series The Simpsons). Score by Timothy Wynn and Christopher Lennertz.
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| Performed live at “SAUMA: Design as Cultural Interface” at the A+D (Architecture Plus Design) Museum in Los Angeles. See Fox 11 News coverage here.
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| Performance live at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in conjunction with the upcoming film Monster House
(Spielberg / Zemeckis), the 3D animated Sony picture for which I played
the theremin on the soundtrack. The film received a special pre-release
screening as part of the 12th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival.
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| Performed on the sound track for Monster House,
an animated 3-D feature film scheduled for release in the summer of
2006. (“Three teenagers discover that their neighbor’s house is really
a living, breathing, scary monster.”) Produced by Steven Spielberg and
Robert Zemeckis, directed by Gil Kenan and starring Mitchel Musso,
Jason Lee, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Turner
and Fred Willard. The score was written by Douglas Pipes.
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| 50th Birthday Party for Kenneth Brecher, Executive Director, Sundance Institute (The Sundance Film Festival)
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| Appeared with the Bellflower Symphony,
Bellflower, California. Featured on the concert was the world premiere
of “Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra” composed by Benjamin Harris.
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| Appeared at GRAND PERFORMANCES,
Southern California's largest presenter of free performing arts
programs and a landmark nonprofit arts institution, in conjunction with
the screening of Steven M. Martin's award-winning documentary Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey.
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| Performed on the sound track for The Zula Patrol, an animated children's series.
A group of animated aliens travel the galaxies to learn new and exciting things about science and space exploration. The series, targeted to pre-kindergarteners through third-graders, delivers astronomy-based science education as well as character-building lessons.
The Zula Patrol is stationed in the far reaches of outer space on the bright orange planet Zula. The group is always on the lookout for the villain Dark Truder. Dark Truder is incessantly masterminding plots to foil the Zula Patrol and frustrate their efforts to make the galaxy a better place in which to live. Perched on top of Dark Truder's shiny, bald head is his talking toupee Traxie. As Truder's conscience, she is always a bit leery of his nefarious plots.
The recording session, done in Hollywood, was a lot of fun. The score was written by Jeff Danna. The theremin parts were definitely high-camp but gently so. Of course, I provided musical motifs for the villain, Dark Truder!
Currently, the show is running on The Qubo Channel, where it's running every day. It is also airing on Telemundo (Spanish speaking network) Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m., NBC Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m., Ion Media Networks Thursday afternoons at 3:30 p.m., and American Public Television ("check your local listings).
There are a bunch of Zula Patrol videos on YouTube. I've found the following where you can hear my playing (and there are probably more):
Zula Patrol YouTube #1
Zula Patrol YouTube #2
Zula Patrol YouTube #3
Zula Patrol YouTube #4
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| Appeared on the worldwide-airing Country Music Television Channel (cable and satellite) program Most Shocking Ways to Make a Buck.
The show profiles people with unusual, odd, strange, bizarre or
disgusting jobs ... ranging from armpit sniffers [testing the
effectiveness of deodorants], to midget wrestlers, to cattle artificial
inseminators, to skyscraper maintenance people, to ... well, theremin
players! This show is rebroadcast fairly frequently, so be on the
lookout for it!
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| Noted photographer Nancy Ricca Schiff has documented me for inclusion in her book Odd Jobs 2 - a sequel to her best-selling first volume.
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| Appeared in concert with Stan Kann at Plummer Auditorium, Fullerton, California.
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| Played
for a private reception (approximately twelve-hundred invited guests)
as part of the Dedication and Grand Opening of the Disney Concert Hall
in Los Angeles.
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| Played for a private APLA Fund Raiser at the historic Hollywood home of Global Vision for Peace co-founder Xorin Balbes.
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| Played for the score of the Hallmark Channel movie The Monster Makers.
The score was written by composer Steve Edwards, who has scored over 45
movies and numerous television shows and specials including the series Push, Nevada. The cast includes Linda Blair, George Kennedy, Tim McCallum, and Adam Baldwin. This film is now avaialble on DVD in Barnes and Nobles stores and also on-line at amazon.com.
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| Performed at the Bigfoot Lounge in Los Angeles, appearing with Seksu Roba and Project:Pimento.
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| Recorded with the German group Phono Royal for their album “Igelverteiler“. (Also see www.hazelwood.de/phonoroyal) The CD is available at
Amazon.de.
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| Recital in Geisel Library, University of California San Diego.
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| Recital in San Jose, California at First Presbyterian Church.
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| Played and demonstrated the theremin for a screening of Steven M. Martin's documentary Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, California.
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| Performed with organist Fred Swann for the Noon Recital Series at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.
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| "Command Performance" with Pianist/Organist Bob Mitchell in the home of Music Pioneer Don Leslie.
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| Performed in recital with my brother, pianist Noel Lester, at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.
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| Performed with the Southeast Symphony in Los Angeles.
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| Performed at the Moog-a-thon, a tribute to electronic music pioneer Bob Moog, at the historic Hollywood Athletic Club.
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| Numerous performances for the Los Angeles County Dept. of Recreation and Parks in Hollywood, West Hollywood, and Eagle Rock.
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| Performed with organist Fred Swann for the “Bach Birthday Bash” in the Crystal Cathedral Arboretum.
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| Three recitals at Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California. (2006, 2002, 1998)
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| Participated in the First International Theremin Festival in Portland, Maine.
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| Participated in a theremin workshop at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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| Appeared on Good Morning, America. with Joel Seigel, Charlie Gibson and Elizabeth Vargas.
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| Gave
a theremin recital and workshop in Las Vegas, at the Orleans Hotel, for
the 79th annual convention of the National Association of Negro
Musicians.
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| Was featured in a full-page article for the Outlook, Santa Monica California’s daily newspaper.
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| Played the theremin for the score of Rag Doll,
a film produced by Big City Pictures, starring Freda Payne, Score &
soundtrack recording produced & mixed by Booker T. Jones III.
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| Played the theremin for three television commericals: McAfee VirusScan, Dell computers and Michelob beer.
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| Performed the theme for the Discovery Channel — National Geographic show
Animalicious. (“Wild Kingdom Meets National Enquirer”!) Score by Mick Muhlfriedel.
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| Played the theremin in Munich, Germany for a live performance of the “radio space opera” Odysseus7.
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| Was featured in Los Angeles Magazine's “Best of L.A.” issue (1998).
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| Gave two concerts in San Francisco, California, as a part of the “Noontime
Concerts” series at the historic Old St. Mary's Church in Chinatown.
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| Featured artist for the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum Grand Reopening.
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| Appeared in concert with the Continental Consort at the Playhouse, Sierra Madre, California.
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| Featured artist for the L.A.International Airport “Encounter” Restaurant Grand Reopening.
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| And many more adventures as well, some of which you can read about in my Updates and How I Fell in Love with the Theremin pages.
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“You are an absolute wizard!” — Erich Kunzel, Conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
