Today( Mar 9, 2016) the Search engine Google is showing an interactive animated Doodle for the 105th Birthday of Clara Rockmore.
Clara Rockmore was a Lithuanian expert performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.
Rockmore was a child prodigy on the violin and entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory at the age of five. She remains to this day the youngest student ever to be admitted to the institution.
Unfortunately, bone problems due to childhood malnutrition forced her to abandon violin performance past her teen years. That however led her to discover the newborn electronic instrument and arguably become the greatest ever virtuosa of the theremin.
She died in New York City on May 10, 1998, at age 87.
