Music, Maestro!
Just imagine: what do you think would happen, hypothetically, if one of the world's greatest violinists performed incognito before a travelling rush-hour crowd in the Washington DC subway? Imagine him dressed as an ordinary street musician, playing on a 3 million dollar Stradivari violin. Would people pay attention? Interesting idea methinks. Even more interesting is the fact that exactly this has happened. I urge you to read the Washington Post article.
Labels: music, the strange stuff
2 Comments:
At 11 May, 2007 23:26,
Anonymous said…
Interesting point made by the 'Saw Lady' ( www.SawLady.com/blog ), a NYC subway musician, about the Bell experiment, from her unique point of view as a busker.
However, I think the whole thing was a successful publicity stunt for Bell...
At 17 May, 2007 00:33,
Adam said…
Dear a, thanks for visiting,
I do not think Joshua Bell gained too much by this. But perhaps to some extent, it was a stunt by the Washington Post, to promote it's Sunday Edition (or similar, I would guess). Nevertheless, an interesting piece of reading, even if somewhat too long. And the videos in the article were worth every penny.
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