Nadia Reisenberg – Clara Rockmore Foundation – website newsletter July 2023 Dear friends – It is with profound sadness that we now navigate this world without Robert “Bob” Sherman, my father, Nadia’s son and Clara’s nephew, and the Founder and President of the Nadia...

Dear friends – As winter approaches here on the east coast of the United States, and COVID vaccination rates (including now for children) and the booster vaccinations have helped slow the virulent spread of the COVID pandemic and hopefully allow us to start to turn...

Dear friends - 2020 was quite the tumultuous year, for all the reasons you already know. We can only hope you remained safe and healthy, and that we are all heading into a much better year for us all... and a return to live music performances. In the theremin world,...

It's been in the works for nearly two years, so the Big News for 2020 is that Roméo Records has released an extraordinary two-CD set of Clara Rockmore's "Music and Memories." Here you'll find a treasury of never-before-released broadcast interviews, home recordings...

Late News Flash: It's almost a year old now, but I do want to remind you of Gary Lemco's long and highly detailed review, which begins “Nadia Reisenberg’s 1950’s Haydn program receives new and astonishingly clear gloss from Roméo Records.” Within it we read that “Each...

Posted by Bob Sherman, November, 2017 It's been a difficult pregnancy - a lot of delicate engineering work was involved, including the use of two modern-age computer programs that are completely beyond my ken - but Nadia Reisenberg's highly acclaimed recordings of 6...

Posted by Bob Sherman, January, 2017 A new year deserves a new newsletter, and happily, there are glad tidings to report. Most gratifying is the release on Roméo Records of a 2-CD set of Nadia Reisenberg's solo and chamber pieces, all of them taken from live, unedited...

Posted by Bob Sherman, September, 2016 If this were a confessional, I'd have to admit that it's been half a year since my last newsletter, which celebrated Clara's March 9th birthday and the Google Doodle that marked the occasion in such high style. No excuses,...

Posted by Bob Sherman, March 2016 Happy Birthday Clara! March 9th, the 105th anniversary of Clara Rockmore's birth, is being celebrated by Google with a Google Doodle tribute to Clara - you will be able to play the theremin and if you follow through, Clara herself...

Posted by Bob Sherman, September 2014 This updated newsletter has been a long time coming, because I was a long time waiting to be able to tell you, without fear of contradiction, about the latest CD release. It's kind of a long story, but even before I get to the...

Posted by Bob Sherman, January 25, 2013 Family loss has delayed this posting, but the news is exhilarating: after months of negotiations, delicate engineering processes, and photographic restorations, Romeo Records has issued a two-CD album reproducing the...

Posted by Bob Sherman, May 3, 2012 A little over a year ago, we reached Clara Rockmore's centennial with high hopes for several major celebrations over the following 12 months. Happy to say, they indeed were forthcoming.   As reported last November, a talk about...

Posted by Bob Sherman, November 11, 2011 As we near the end of Clara Rockmore's centennial year, there are many glad tidings to report. Most importantly, with a major grant from the Smart Family Foundation and donations from individual theremin and Clara fans, a major...

Posted by Bob Sherman, March 9, 2011 Ten years ago, a large number of Clara’s friends, family members and admirers gathered at Steinway Hall, a few blocks away from her 57th street apartment in New York, to celebrate her 90th birthday. Clara had been planning the...

Posted by Bob Sherman, April, 2010 Once again, there are excting new developments and some glad tidings: •  The first-ever release of NR's November 21, 1947 Carnegie Hall Recital, predicted in our previous newsletter, has materialized, the album notes including an...

Posted by Bob Sherman, September 2009 Let me start with a few repetitions from earlier updates: •  If you haven't seen the remarkable NR video prepared by, and stored at the University of Maryland's Piano Library, you'll find a link to it on the recordings page, along...

Posted by Bob Sherman, April 2009 Much has happened since the Nadia-Clara website went on line last November, so this is already our second update. We've added still more names, e-mail addresses and comments to the list of Nadia's students, and now have a link to the...

Posted January, 2009 by Bob Sherman Much has happened since the Nadia-Clara website went on line last November, so this is first of what may turn out to be periodic updates. •   First of all, we've added some names, e-mail addresses and comments to the list of Nadia's...