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Here are snippets from Google News and the limited preview of Glinsky's book (which I do not have).

Selected book snippets:

  • page xiii Anne Stern, daughter of Lucie
  • page 127 Rosen, and her husband, ... banker Walter Tower Rosen
  • page 132 first public appearance ... Theremin's Carnegie Hall ensemble, and in February 1931 ... quartet of space-control instruments ...
    "Rosen is one of the most original women in New York's social world," the New York Evening Journal observed ...
  • page 161 1933. Rosen was performing actively around the New York area
  • page 164 1935. Rosen resolved to take her instrument around Europe
  • page 279 Rosen appeared in Town hall recitals again in 1946 and 1948
  • page 358 Rosen appears in concert ... New York Herald Tribune

Google results:

  • New York Times - May 14, 1933: "Lucy Bigelow Rosen ... Theremin recital ... Union College , Schenectady, assisted by the college glee club and Elmer A. Tidmarsh"
  • New York Times - Sep 28, 1935: "Lucy Bigelow Rosen, theremin soloist"
  • 1938-07-10 New York Times: "EVENTS at the Stadium this week ... Lucie Rosen, who will play the English horn part of Sibelius's "Swan of Tuonela" on the Theremin instrument"
  • but then: 1938-07-12 New York Times: "was to have had Lucy Rosen as the soloist in the "Swarl of Tuonela" of Sibelius."
  • Lucy Bigelow Rosen interview 1938 (restored) audio interview for the Dutch Philips East Indies Broadcasting station linked from [1]
    partial transcript, she says "to friends of the Theremin in the East Indies. I know that there is a theremin in India ... We played in Naples and Munich and Budapest and Venice and Switzerland and Scandinavia, and we just came down now from Oslo and Copenhagen to Amsterdam. ... types of electrical instruments ... mine is a space control instrument, the others are keyboard types like Professor Martenot's in France and Trautwein in Germany has an instrument called the Trautonium. ... singing with your fingers ... We are going from Amsterdam to Brussels and to Paris. ..."
    Rosen is probably referring to the Trautonium: New York Times - Sep 6, 1931 ELECTRICITY, ETHER AND INSTRUMENTS; Some Considerations, Reflections and Inferences Regarding the Modern Cult of Vitamineless Art and the Synthetic Esthetic ... "music" for the "Trautonium," the creation of one Dr. Friedrich Trautwein
  • Lucy Rosen's 1940's Theremin Notebook
  • New York Times - Jan 26, 1947: "meeting of those interested in the theremin called by Lucy Bigelow Rosen"
  • Nov 28, 1968 obituary "wife of the late Walter Tower Rosen, beloved mother of Anne Bigelow Stern"
  • October 19, 1997. LYNNE AMES. The View From: Katonah; For Costume Fanciers, Regal Fantasy Fashions "Mrs. Rosen, who, with her husband, Walter, founded the Caramoor Music Festival"
  • Gigolette - Elliot Lawrence featuring Lucie Bigelow Rosen on Theremin - short YouTube clip

-84user (talk) 16:48, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]