Yatri
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Yatri, Kathryn Taussig, is the world’s foremost Glass Armonica musician in the genre of New Age
and healing music. Her CDs are distributed in 35 countries around the world and she has been featured on such nationally syndicated radio shows as Music From the Hearts of Space and Echoes. The Glass Armonica is an instrument made of quartz crystal bowls rotating on a spindle and played with moist fingers. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin
in the 18th century and recreated for Yatri by the late Gerhard Finkenbeiner, a master glass blower in Waltham Massachusetts from Franklin’s original sketches.
Before discovering the Glass Armonica Yatri, then known as Kathryn Root, was a prominent Canadian concert pianist who toured internationally as soloist and with the chamber group Camerata. Since 1988 she has performed exclusively on the Glass Armonica writing music for theater, dance, and film. She lives in the US with her husband pianist Peter Elyakim Taussig
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
and healing music. Her CDs are distributed in 35 countries around the world and she has been featured on such nationally syndicated radio shows as Music From the Hearts of Space and Echoes. The Glass Armonica is an instrument made of quartz crystal bowls rotating on a spindle and played with moist fingers. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
in the 18th century and recreated for Yatri by the late Gerhard Finkenbeiner, a master glass blower in Waltham Massachusetts from Franklin’s original sketches.
Before discovering the Glass Armonica Yatri, then known as Kathryn Root, was a prominent Canadian concert pianist who toured internationally as soloist and with the chamber group Camerata. Since 1988 she has performed exclusively on the Glass Armonica writing music for theater, dance, and film. She lives in the US with her husband pianist Peter Elyakim Taussig
Peter Elyakim Taussig
Peter Elyakim Taussig is a pianist. He was born in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and grew up in Israel, where his parents emigrated following the Communist take-over in 1949. Musical studies began at age 7 with another Czech refugee, Edith Kraus - a student of Artur Schnabel and niece of Alma...