Website review: Pearls Before Breakfast - washingto...
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•36 reviews since Apr 7, 2007
sociology, music, joshua-bell
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pankajsapkal rated 11 months ago- Brilliant experiment - Acknowledged musical genius plays anonymously as a street musician in rush hour. Hardly anyone notices, and he earns less than $50 for an hour of playing. From the article - At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off. But here, my expectations quickly diminished. I started to appreciate any acknowledgment, even a slight glance up. I was oddly grateful when someone threw in a dollar instead of change." This is from a man whose talents can command $1,000 a minute. I must say, Joshua Bell must be one heck of a cool guy to put his art to such a test and to be open about it - not many ego-inflated artists could do that. Obviously, most art is popular/sold by the label and not by the quality. Its the spin, the packaging that sells. How many of us actually have the ability to recognize talent, if presented anonymously and without the fanfare?
- TimeLagInstitute rated 11 months ago
- Just as we suspected
- awemaker rated 11 months ago
- This is a very hard article to read. Gut wrenching. Tears. Shock & awe. Oh, this planer. I would have been a wall flower until he stopped, even if I lost my job! This served as a reminder to me of who I am, (& I mean that humbly). If so for you, too, then methinks we're friends!
- diesdre rated 13 months ago
- From the page: "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. -- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies"
- kanun rated 14 months ago
- Wake up America !
- JDKlein76 rated 14 months ago
- What a great article video and experiment on human activity.
- Lush rated 14 months ago
- Pearls Before Breakfast. From the page: "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?"
- endtimes rated 14 months ago
- Pearls before breakfast. 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? Found thanks to Gmc.
- ZAI rated 15 months ago
- This is absolutely heartbreaking, but what's worse is that if he had been in NYC, more people would have passed by him, but fewer people would have stopped, and even fewer would have given him any money...
