a strad in the subway!?!
If a great musician plays great music but no one hears… was he really any good?
- no, that quote is not some ridiculous hubris on my part, but the question posed by an article in the Washington Post, Pearls Before Breakfast, by Gene Weingarten, in which preeminent violinist (though in my ignorance of that world i’d never heard of him), Joshua Bell performed 6 classical pieces over 43 minutes on a $3.5 meeellion dollar violin in a Washington subway station, as an experiment. Well worth a read. This via the ambisonicbootlegs mailing list.
