{"id":557,"date":"2024-03-13T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/?page_id=557"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:17:35","slug":"personal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-418 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/2024\/03\/20240302_172318-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/2024\/03\/20240302_172318-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/2024\/03\/20240302_172318-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/2024\/03\/20240302_172318-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/2024\/03\/20240302_172318-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/2024\/03\/20240302_172318-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_May,_New_Jersey\">Cape May<\/a> Cove Beach after a storm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I play the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tenor_saxophone\"> tenor<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saxophone\">saxophone<\/a> at an amateur level &#8212; mostly jazz and Brazilian music (and also some guitar in a much more amateur way).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rutgers.box.com\/s\/s1bxg18a3vg7t7ym25m0733uvkhf15t3\">Playing Aquarella do Brasil<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/coliveira.net\/\">Carlos Oliviera<\/a>, March 2009<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/2024\/03\/flagg-street-2min.mp3\">&#8220;Flagg Street&#8221;<\/a> original composition, now dedicated to the memory of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Tseng\">Paul Tseng<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/eckstein\/music-dedicated-to-the-memory-of-paul-tseng\/\">Music dedicated to the memory of Paul Tseng<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CalebEcksteinTrombone\/\">My son Caleb<\/a> is a jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His composition <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/calebecksteinmusic\/slice-of-life\"><em>Slice of Life<\/em><\/a> on SoundCloud<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/search?q=caleb%20eckstein\">More of his work on Soundcloud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/constellationbigband.bandcamp.com\/album\/vol-one\">Big band EP &#8220;Vol. One&#8221;<\/a> by the Constellation Big Band, which Caleb co-leads with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaredpdecker.com\/\">Jared Decker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allisonspann.com\/\">Allison Spann<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In high school in the 1970&#8217;s, I was a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resistors.org\">R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.<\/a> computer club, one of the earliest known youth computer clubs.\u00a0 I was even president during some of the clubs waning days.<\/p>\n<p>My late father, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_H._Eckstein\"> Harry Eckstein<\/a>, was one of the (approximately) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Thousand_Children\">one thousand children<\/a> of Jewish descent who came to the US from Germany without their parents during the Nazi period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape May Cove Beach after a storm &nbsp; 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