I’ve been pretty low-key about it (as in, I haven’t said anything about it at all), but then, I’ve never exactly been a genius at self-promotion. However, my article on Princeton’s most beloved brainiac, Albert Einstein, and his relationship to music, is one of the features in this month’s Princeton Echo. I believe the print edition was issued on March 1. So keep a lookout for my byline in Princeton vending machines and at area businesses.

An amateur violinist who adored Mozart, Einstein knew and even played with a number of notable musicians and scientists, both in Princeton and abroad. He was even honored at Carnegie Hall by Leopold Godowsky and Arnold Schoenberg.

While he wasn’t exactly at home with music of the 20th century, Einstein liked and respected Bohuslav Martinů, who taught composition at Princeton University from 1948 to 1951. The two shared much in common, and Martinů wound up writing a piece of music for him.

It just so happens that the composer, who is not exactly a household name, but perhaps should be, will be the subject of his own music festival, “Martinů and His World,” at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, August 8-17.

You can access the article at one of the links below. I’ll also include a link to the Bard Music Festival.

The article is slated to be reprinted in the Princeton weekly U.S. 1 in advance of Pi Day, 3/14 (by coincidence, also Einstein’s birthday), always a big deal in these parts. So you’ll have a choice between the two newspapers in the next week or so.

For your convenience, I’ll also include a link to the schedule of this year’s Pi Day events (to be held in Princeton on Friday and Saturday, 3/14 & 3/15).

My article, “Relatively Musical: Albert Einstein and Bohuslav Martinů”

https://www.communitynews.org/towns/princeton-echo/relatively-musical-albert-einstein-and-bohuslav-martin/article_64f724c8-f840-11ef-81f3-77d946927c50.html

The Bard Music Festival, “Martinů and His World”

https://fishercenter.bard.edu/whats-on/programs/bard-music-festival/

Princeton Pi Day events

https://princetontourcompany.com/tours/pi-day/

Better get cracking on your pi memorization!

Fisher Center at Bard

PHOTO: Einstein with Gaby Casadesus at Princeton’s Present Day Club

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