Einstein the fiddler BBC Radio 4 today

Subject: RE: Einstein the fiddler BBC Radio 4 today
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 11:49 AM

It is supposed to be true, however, that Einstein was playing thru a Beethoven sonats with Artur Schnabel when Einstein got lost and Schnabel quipped,"What's the matter Alfred, can't you count?"

Alwats good to know that the physicists are catching up with the occultists on the relationship between the universe and music.

Takes me back to the old days when we used to discuss the Music of the Spheres. :-)

Ivor

Subject: RE: Einstein the fiddler BBC Radio 4 today
From: GUEST,Bonnie Shaljean, in foreign climes
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 10:25 AM

The Adagio movement, from Bach's G Minor Sonata for violin

Subject: RE: Einstein the fiddler BBC Radio 4 today
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 10:14 AM

Does anybody know what the name was of the last piece played was? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Einstein the fiddler BBC Radio 4 today
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 09:19 AM

I guess there is no truth to the anecdote about one of the players in the orchestra shouting hey you can't you count?

Subject: Einstein the fiddler BBC Radio 4 today
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 08:12 AM

Broadcasting soon. I never knew he had any connection with music.

Einstein's Fiddle                          
                         
Sun 9 Dec, 14:45-15:00 (15 mins)                         
                         
Oxford University physicist Brian Foster reveals the musical side of Albert Einstein.

Although best known for his towering scientific achievements, Einstein was a fine amateur violinist and often played in public. When he was due to receive his Nobel Prize in 1922, he was in Japan, not only meeting other physicists but also giving performances. He said that music was an important part of his way of thinking about the world.