Keywords: busker, Joshua Bell, violin, Washington Post
June 07, 2007
I came across this article some weeks ago and I don't really know what to make of it. It tells the story of what happened when a world class violinist, Joshua Bell, became a busker in the Washington underground together with revealing videos (4 in all so make sure you scroll down completely to the end of this fairly long article). Most people completely ignored him. Does this mean that we have to be told when something is worth listening to because we can't recognise it ourselves? Or was it completely unfair because this was done at the height of the morning rush hour? Would the results have been very different on a Saturday afternoon? Or is it unfair to to expect our poor habituated brains to be on the lookout for world class violinists in unexpected corners?
Posted by Anne Fox
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