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People fainted when the Theremin was first performed onstage in Paris in 1928. It’s haunting sound resembled voices from beyond the grave. It was the first electronic instrument – and at that time, the only one which was played without actually touching it. Its ingenious maker, the charismatic Russian Leon Thermin, was in many ways as mysterious as his invention. Tonight on the Front Porch, we'll learn all about the instrument and its maker through a documentary by Radio Netherlands.

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