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How many people would recognize world-class music making in the subway? The Washington Post plants Joshua Bell as a street musician near a Metro station to see what happens.
Pearls Before Breakfast
Gene Weingarten, Washington Post
No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities -- as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?
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