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When Alfred Einstein began studying the violin, at nine, he soon realized he was no prodigy-"I only made a lot of noise." Later, as a student at the University of Munich, he tried his hand at composing the usual sonatas and fugues, soon found "I was not a Beethoven." But young Alfred, who had a distant, science-minded cousin named Albert Einstein, made music his career anyway...
Last week Smith College in Northampton, Mass. honored 69-year-old Alfred Einstein as one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics. In a three-day celebration, fellow members of the Smith faculty and students played and sang some of the music they thought would please him most. It ranged from 16th and 17th Century Italian madrigals that Musicologist Einstein himself had unearthed and edited, to Mozart and Schubert quartets and compositions by 20th Century Composers Roger Sessions and Benjamin Britten. Old and new, the music was done to Scholar Einstein's taste...
...Einstein, who believes passionately that such a law must exist, has devoted the last 30 years of his life to searching for it. A few months ago (TIME, Jan. 2), he published as an appendix to his third edition of The Meaning of Relativity his Generalized Theory of Gravitation, which he considers the long-sought link between electricity and gravitation, explaining the behavior of both electrons and stars...
...Einstein complains, no one has proved him right, and no one has proved him wrong. The theoretical physicists, he says, act as if gravitational effects did not exist: "I do not believe that it is justifiable to ask, 'What would physics look like without gravitation...
...Einstein asks, don't the theoretical physicists really start getting busy and check his new theory against the experience of nature? "Affirmation or refutation will not be easy, in spite of an abundance of known empirical facts. The derivation, from the equations, of conclusions which can be confronted with experience will require painstaking efforts and probably new mathematical methods...