Identification
• Biographies (Short, Medium, and LOOOOONG)
• Things About Me, from a series of Facebook notes I published in 2009
Vocation
• Resume: Music Emphasis
• Selected Musical Repertoire: solos, chamber music, symphonies, operas/musical theatre (including some audio and video links)
• Accomplishments of some of my private violin students
• Canons & Clothespins: a (primarily statistical) look back at my career as a wedding musician
• Collaborations with Famous Musicians
Avocation
• Resume: Mathematics Emphasis
• Mathematics Problems and Puzzles, devised by moi
• Do You Have a Mathematical Personality?
• Wordplay, devious and deviant
NPL-style puzzles • Cryptic-crossword clues • Anagrams, homonyms, acronyms, lipograms, palindromes, Tom Swifties, etc.
• Poetry by me (including collaborations), by April, and by my mother
Education
• College Coursework
• My music teachers • My violin genealogy (a listing of my private teachers, their teachers, their teachers, and so on)
Publication
• An extensive listing of selected prose writings from throughout my life, with links to the full texts of academic papers, letters, essays, etc.
Relation
• Genealogy and family history
The Brahinsky / Abraham Family Tree at Geneanet (updated March 2023) (sign in for free to see more data)
Eric's ancestry chart April's ancestry chart
A 1969 newspaper article about my (birth) family
Biographies of my father, Henry (1917–2001), and mother, Muriel (1924–2013)
An obituary for my brother Martin (1951–2011)
Six Degrees of Separation: some of Eric's and April's famous relatives
A history of the Brahinsky family, as told by my aunt Hannah Brahinsky (1922–2016) in 1976
"My Shtetel": a story of Felshtin, the birthplace of my maternal grandfather, Max Silberman (1889–1959), written by his brother Maurice (1883?–1948)
A 2013 video interview with my aunt Hannah Brahinsky sharing her life story • A text transcript of the interview
Memorial links relating to April's father, Robin Abraham (1923–2022), and mother, Peggy Tisinger Abraham (1924–2022)
"Remembrances of My Childhood Home": reminiscences of April's great-aunt Onie Meador Forse (1884–1980)
A story of The Strauss Mansion, the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, summer home of April's great-great-grandfather Adolph Strauss (1830–1905)
Adoration
An autobiography by my wife, April Abraham Brahinsky
• Selected musical performances by April (with links to mp3s and videos)
• Selected musical performances by April's parents, Robin and Peggy Abraham (with links to mp3s)
• "Solo Piano Music by San Antonio Composers", April's 1984 doctoral treatise for The University of Texas at Austin
• April's page at watchfiremusic.com (spiritual songs)
Eric and April's wedding video
Conglomeration
Lists of favorites, including. . .
50 favorite works of classical music
50 favorite 20th-century classical works
Quotations
Some favorite books, movies, entertainers, places (U.S. and Canada)
My former Wikipedia (online encyclopedia) user page (complemented by this page) • A page with links to virtually all of my Wikipedia edits is here.
A compilation I have made of Great Classical Musicians from Texas
A webpage I created for The Colburn-Pledge Music Scholarship Foundation, a former small private nonprofit of which April and I were officers and directors (that scholarship program is now administered by Musical Bridges Around the World)
Some data on where I have lived and traveled
Accounts of numerous amazing coincidences in my life
A chronological listing of most of the books I have read
How I created the violin graph on my home page
Send me an email.
Back to my home page.