{"id":248,"date":"2013-09-01T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-10-23T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:17:03","slug":"the-brain-albert-einstein-rhythm-and-the-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2013\/09\/the-brain-albert-einstein-rhythm-and-the-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brain, Albert Einstein, Rhythm and the Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"music4surgery\" data-hashtags=\"Brain+and+rhythm,Einstein+and+rhythm,Einstein+and+the+violin,how+music+affects+brain,Oliver+Sacks+and+music+for+brain\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2013\/09\/the-brain-albert-einstein-rhythm-and-the-violin\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A fascinating account of Albert Einstein&#8217;s love and music and his performance ability on the violin came across my desk recently.\u00a0 It seems that Einstein loved music and played the violin extremely well, for an amateur.\u00a0 The problem is, he really did not have a good sense of rhythm.\u00a0 Obviously, he knew how to count, but simply did not have that internal sense of rhythm that allows you to play chamber music or any kind of ensemble music.<\/p>\n<p>A soloist can &#8220;kind of&#8221; get away with this, because there is no ensemble playing involved, but in a professional setting, you simply can&#8217;t make it in the music world if you don&#8217;t have that internal sense of rhythm and apparently, Einstein did not have it.\u00a0 Nevertheless, because he was Albert Einstein, he had no trouble finding highly esteemed and accomplished musicians to play chamber music with him.\u00a0 However, they did not hesitate to point out his rhythmic shortcomings!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this story, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/classical\/features\/the-relative-beauty-of-the-violin-2196313.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/classical\/features\/the-relative-beauty-of-the-violin-2196313.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet A fascinating account of Albert Einstein&#8217;s love and music and his performance ability on the violin came across my desk recently.\u00a0 It seems that Einstein loved music and played the violin extremely well, for an amateur.\u00a0 The problem is, he really did not have a good sense of rhythm.\u00a0 Obviously, he knew how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,55],"tags":[106,105,104,82,73],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - 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