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Lest you get the mistaken impression that I hate the Post, here is an article so wonderful that I smiled the entire time I was reading it. (In fact, it's so wonderful, it even makes me forgive the author his hiatus.)
posted by Angry Pregnant Lawyer at 9:07 PM
8 Comments:
That WAS wonderful! I cannot fathom how those people could leave that area so quickly and not stop to listen - even for a moment-to that magnificent violin!
All the kids stopped. But frickin' Baby Blue said, "Mama, turn that music off!" She's trying to watch Dragon Tales, doncha know.
I love that story. I can't believe how few stopped. In NYC there's always a crowd around the musicians.
Thank you - that was wonderful, and I doubt I would have seen it without you.
I loved it too, and hope (think) that I would've stopped for a good while, as long as I wasn't late already. I generally do stop and listen at least a little, but not for long if it's the morning (though I will donate to thank them for the pleasure of listening).
On the way home, I will stop and listen. There are some excellent 4-part-harmony singers I've seen at Metro Center, once with the kiddo and once elsewhere, and enjoyed immensely. But I can't imagine having Joshua Bell there . . .
Oh, and I have seen crowds around the musicians - but usually in the evening, again, not at morning rush hour.
J. always wants to stop and listen -- I had put it down to his being rather musical, which he is, but after reading the article I think it's just cause he's a kid.
thank you.
I have a theory...
(perhaps borne from my unimaginable disbelief...)
It appears Mr. Bell was playing in a space where people enter through doors, have about 3 seconds to walk by him... and then exit through other doors.
I consider myself an afficionado of classical music.. and I like to think I would recognize terrific playing... But I'm not sure I would recognize it in the three seconds it would take me to pass between the doors.
Perhaps we are not quite as unappreciative as the writer believes.
I have heard some really terrific musicians at Friendship Heights Metro... but I usually hear them all the way up the escalator (for a good 30-60 seconds) before I pass them by.
Either way... the experiment and the article were both awesome.
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