September 2010
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when violin superstar Joshua Bell
When violin superstar Joshua Bell went busking in a DC Metro station in January of 2007, only seven out of 1,079 passers-by stopped to listen. The stunt had been cooked up by Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post; according to him, it was “an experiment in context, perception and priorities — as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time,...
