Spotlight:Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel
March 27th, 2008 by Chad Radford in Music news
The name says it all.
Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel is a character study of two instruments that have about as much in common with each other as “Star Trek” has with “Green Acres.”
Yet both instruments have traditionally been used to add background color and texture to their respective musical locales. The electronic theremin captures the eerie, sci-fi sounds of outer space, while the lap steel produces the wavering whir heard everywhere from Hawaiian luaus to front-porch jamborees in the wilds of Appalachia.
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