![]() ![]() It is to Clara - a version of the Lithuanian theremin-player, Clara Rockmore, and Leon’s “one true love” - that the book is addressed, though the mode of address is shifting. It could also have been called a clara, after its greatest player." The instrument that is now known as a theremin could as easily have been called a leon, a lyova, a sergeyvich. "I was Leon Termen before I was Dr Theremin," he says at the opening of the novel, "and before I was Leon, I was Lev Sergeyvich. Us Conductors is ostensibly a fictionalised account of the life of the Russian scientist, Leon Termen, and his invention (in 1920) of the theremin. Since founding that site, Michaels has continued to write on this subject for a variety of newspapers and magazines (in 2015 he was appointed music columnist for Toronto's Globe & Mail), and he has now devoted a lengthy, inventive and seductive novel to the same subject. ![]() He first began to explore this interest when he founded the music blog "Said the Gramophone" in 2003. Sean Michaels has been writing about the affective force of music for most of his career. ![]()
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