Classical Music is Still Overrated
While the article and idea had great promise... it was about 15,000,000 words too long. I recommend watching the videos, and reading my answer to the proposed question below:
"What would happen if the Joshua Bell, a virtuoso violinist who won the Avery
Fisher prize as the best classical musician in America, dressed down like a
street performer and played for an hour at a busy D.C. metro stop? The
Washington Post arranged to find out. "
Answer: No one would care. He makes like $30 bucks (which I would have been grateful for), and only like 5 people even stopped to listen. Classical music is still overrated.
Subject:
One Pretty Cool Story...
Body:
What would happen if the Joshua Bell, a virtuoso violinist who won the Avery
Fisher prize as the best classical musician in America, dressed down like a
street performer and played for an hour at a busy D.C. metro stop? The
Washington Post arranged to find out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
"What would happen if the Joshua Bell, a virtuoso violinist who won the Avery
Fisher prize as the best classical musician in America, dressed down like a
street performer and played for an hour at a busy D.C. metro stop? The
Washington Post arranged to find out. "
Answer: No one would care. He makes like $30 bucks (which I would have been grateful for), and only like 5 people even stopped to listen. Classical music is still overrated.
Subject:
One Pretty Cool Story...
Body:
What would happen if the Joshua Bell, a virtuoso violinist who won the Avery
Fisher prize as the best classical musician in America, dressed down like a
street performer and played for an hour at a busy D.C. metro stop? The
Washington Post arranged to find out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
posted by Your Mom at 4/15/2007 12:11:00 AM
3 Comments:
Holy crap, no one noticed a good violiner from an average one? No one noticed he won awards for violining? That is really interesting.
Yeah, we are so uncultured here in America. Art is the proverbial pearl, and we are the proverbial swine.
Hi, I just wanted to point out that my gmail has been Bohn-spam free for nearly two weeks. If I hadn't had the chance to skype and google chat with Marc I would have thought him to be kidnapped (or dead) at the hands of some bandwidth policing agency. Marc...come home we miss you.
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