{"id":11081,"date":"2022-08-16T13:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueconcord.org\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2022-07-26T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:13:17","slug":"a-nobel-prize-winner-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueconcord.org\/2022\/08\/16\/a-nobel-prize-winner-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nobel Prize Winner Weighs In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1658861696378{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<strong>From Welz Kauffman, True Concord Managing Director &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0In the early 80s in LA, I was finishing up a house concert when the host took me by the hand and introduced me to her \u201cgenius friend, Dick Feynman\u201d. One of my encores was a piano transcription of Mars from Holst\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Planets<\/em>, and Feynman loved it, told me he was an avid drummer who dabbled in astrophysics, and that while I played he was \u201c<em>samba<\/em>-ing\u201d on his legs, on the furniture, anywhere he could bounce his fingers.<strong>\u00a0Only later did I learn that he was the Dr. Richard Feynman of Caltech, the Manhattan Project, the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics, and one of the best-known scientists in the world \u2013 and soon to be a member of the commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were seated together for supper and ended up speaking not of physics but of the stars, the planets, the skies &#8211; and about music. He loved all types of music especially pieces that allowed his visual imagination to run wild and was particularly fascinated by musical depictions of that which is above us. I asked him about the human obsession with space, space travel, space exploration and where he thought that came from.\u00a0<strong>He smiled and said space is for everybody, not just for a few people in science or math, it\u2019s the new frontier for all of us. \u00a0Space represents hope, it represents freedom, and many of us were weaned on it when our parents read us\u00a0<u>Goodnight Moon<\/u>\u00a0and then led us to the pop culture phenoms Star Trek, Star Wars, Close Encounters and so many more, all of which have great music.<\/strong>\u00a0Feynman was the first to tell me that space and fantasy films were the operas of our time, and that music is like space \u2013 expansive, to be discovered by performer and audience, filled with untold riches and imagination, beauties and romance.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Feynman, at the close of the evening, thanked me again for playing\u00a0<em>Mars<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>wistfully told me he wished there was a solar system vocal work as famous as\u00a0<em>The Planets<\/em><\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;6\/12&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11084&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/12&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11083&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/12&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11082&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1658864556087{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<strong>For those of you that like coincidences, Feynman was born in 1918. 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I\u2019ll be there and will be missing Feynman \u2013 but I hope you\u2019ll join us.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1658864574236{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Shoot for the moon. \u00a0Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_button dimension=&#8221;flat&#8221; corner_style=&#8221;full_rounded&#8221; size=&#8221;medium&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/trueconcord.org\/performances\/2022-23-helios\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#971b2f&#8221; btn_hover_bg=&#8221;#dc6b2f&#8221; btn_hover_txt_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;]CONCERT TICKETS &amp; MORE INFO[\/mk_button][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Richard Feynman, the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics,\u00a0wished there was a solar system vocal work as special as\u00a0The Planets. 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