Question

summary for The Might I Met
Einstein by Jerome Weidman.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Jerome Weidman a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and novelist gets invited for dinner in New York, much before he became all that famous and after dinner, the guests were treated to some classical music, particularly Bach. Weidman, having a hearing impairment did not relish the music. He then realized that the person sitting next to him was none other than the famous scientist Albert Einstein.  

Einstein engages Weidman in conversation and then takes the young man out of that room to an upper floor study and there gives Weidman an all new experience in music appreciation. Einstein explains that Weidman should start listening to some simple music and then move up the scale one by one. He demonstrates it by playing records on the phonograph there, starting with Bing Crosby and Caruso and so on. In a matter of minutes Weidman starts to appreciate music of higher levels. And then Einstein tells Weidman that he is now ready to appreciate Bach and takes him back to the crowded room where the guests were enjoying Bach. Weidman listens to Bach with a new interest and applauds when the concert gets over.

Jerome Weidman ends his account of his meeting with Albert Einstein with the words the great scientist uttered in answer to the question the hostess put, as to what the two were up to missing in the middle of the concert:

“Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty