oh goodness!!!
JOSHUA BELL, once child prodigy, now a world reknown violinist (who plays a $3.5 million dollar strad) played at a SUBWAY station in DC as an experiment and people just walked by without a second glance!!! IMPOSSIBLE!!! I would have died to have been there!!!!!
check it out here.
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I've never heard of this dude but after reading this article I think this is positively fantastic.
JOSHUA BELL!!! that is crazy! (if you watched "The Red Violin", he was the one who played the music throughout the movie)
thanks for that incredible article...i wonder what i would've done as one of the passer-bys? many of those pieces i have learnt before (though never mastered, and definitely not to that level!).
i especially liked this part:
"A hundred feet away, across the arcade, was the lottery line, sometimes five or six people long. They had a much better view of Bell than Tindley did, if they had just turned around. But no one did. Not in the entire 43 minutes. They just shuffled forward toward that machine spitting out numbers. Eyes on the prize."
and this one:
"People just said they were busy, had other things on their mind. Some who were on cellphones spoke louder as they passed Bell, to compete with that infernal racket."
and the guy who was listening to a song on his iPod about "failing to see the beauty of what's plainly in front of you."
:D
i'm just speechless. this guy is amazing.
Hehe, you're the second person I know that found that article.
I didn't know who Joshua Bell was before I read this article... but I DEFINATELY would have stopped to listen. Ah well...
I love the little philosophical discussion that went on all through the article about Kant's definition of beauty requiring a context for people to recognize it. Crap.... and more crap. Music like that should strike people wherever they are. I especially like the observation they made that although only a few of the adults actually stopped to notice and only one person actually knew who he was, EVERY child turned their head to listen before being rushed on by their parent/guardian.
Clearly they know something many of us have forgotten.
i think one the magazine author summed it up well when he said Joshua Bell "does nothing less than tell human beings why they bother to live."
that quote is insane
Ah, part of me thinks it's unfair to say that people are dumb or horrible for not recognizing a celebrity. This is really all about his celebrity, right? I mean if you're going to ignore beauty that's one thing (and that's your loss). But really - the fact that he gets paid $1000/minute is not what makes him a great musician AND it doesn't obligate us to like his music (or even to care). This article seems profoundly hypocritical in one way.
In another way, it makes us as people, the senseless crowd of easily led sheep, seem rather silly. I mean, if you can't appreciate something beautiful (and I say that cuz it's quite aesthetically clear that Bell was playing something beautiful) then what are you rushing to work for? What are you after? You know? Meh.. I think this is why I like subways, train stations, bus depots, etc. etc. because those are the places where time is supposed to be put on hold, you know? You're going from A to B and what happens in between is irrelevant to those two points. So, you may as well enjoy and soak up all that you can while in transit. That's the perfect time to relax and welcome the details of the world. I love looking at the graph art on the back of them buildings, somewheres around Old Mill station or one of those. mmmm
P.S. Lydia, let's go to Windsor.
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