Bob Moog’s biographer, Albert Glinsky, joins the Bob Moog Foundation’s executive director for an intimate, insightful live talk about a book 12 years in the making, and the man who changed music forever.
“I was honored to be asked by Michelle Moog-Koussa, executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation, to write Bob’s biography,” Glinsky said. “The process of writing this book has been an extraordinary experience, and I am proud to be able to offer this definitive story of Bob’s complex life and career.”
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This ticketed livestream event on Sunday, August 21 marks the author’s first public appearance with this new book, which will be published on September 2, 2022.
There is a poignant significance to the day of the event: August 21 is the date of Bob’s death in 2005 at age 71, and of the birth of the Foundation one year later.
Livestream tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a suggested starting donation of $10. All proceeds benefit Bob Moog Foundation projects: The Moogseum, , and the Bob Moog Foundation Archives.
Following the one-hour discussion between Glinsky and Moog-Koussa, both will take questions from attendees in a 30-minute Q&A session.
Livestream with Albert Glinsky: Exploring the nuances and complexities of Bob Moog with the author of the forthcoming biography
Tickets are pay what you can; suggested starting donation of $10
3 p.m. ET/12 noon PT/7 p.m.. UTC
60-minute discussion, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A with attendees
Purchase tickets here.
This livestream, as well as the Foundation’s efforts in facilitating interviews and providing Glinsky access to hundreds of rare historical documents and photos, are an extension of its mission to protect, preserve, and share the wealth of materials of the Bob Moog Foundation Archives with people from all over the world.
Albert Glinsky is an American composer and author. His music has been performed internationally, and he holds honors and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He was educated at the Juilliard School and New York University. His music ranges from acoustic to electronic works.
His book, “Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, with a foreword by Bob Moog, is the standard work on Leon Theremin, and won the 2001 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Glinsky is a frequent lecturer and appears regularly on television, radio, and podcasts.
Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution” will be published September 2, 2022 from Oxford University Press.