Finding beauty in unexpected places
What would happen if one of the world’s greatest violinists dressed in street clothes and played for tips inside a subway station? The Washington Post staged such an experiment about two years ago. They asked Joshua Bell to play at L’Enfant Plaza during rush hour. Hardly anyone noticed. He made $32.17 in 43 minutes of playing. Nobody expected to hear a great violinist that morning, so they didn’t.
The Washington Post article about the experiment, Pearls Before Breakfast, includes videos of Bell’s performance taken from a hidden camera.
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