{"id":386,"date":"2008-06-17T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T10:38:28","slug":"what-if-the-worlds-best-violinist-played-the-worlds-best-violin-at-a-subway-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/what-if-the-worlds-best-violinist-played-the-worlds-best-violin-at-a-subway-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"What if the world\u2019s best violinist played the world\u2019s best violin at a subway stop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Bell is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso. As part of a fantastic experiment in context, perception, public taste and priorities, Joshua Bell agreed to play his Stradivarius incognito at the L\u2019Enfant Plaza station in DC at 8 am on Friday, January 12 in the middle of the morning rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>In the next 43 minutes, 1,097 people passed by as Joshua performed his classical pieces. Only twenty-seven people gave money, most of them on the run \u2013 providing $32.17! The other 1,070 just hurried by, oblivious, few bothering to even look!<\/p>\n<p>I bet he would have received about the same amount of attention in NY. We New Yorkers are more \u201cbusy\u201d and \u201cimportant\u201d than government workers in DC, but that would be compensated by the slightly higher percentage appreciating the music and maybe recognizing Bell \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article and watch the videos at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/04\/AR2007040401721.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/04\/AR2007040401721.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Bell is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso. As part of a fantastic experiment in context, perception, public taste and priorities, Joshua Bell agreed to play his Stradivarius incognito at the &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-articles"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"What if the world\u2019s best violinist played the world\u2019s best violin at a subway stop?. Categories - Interesting Articles. Date-Posted - 2008-06-17T10:07:13 . Joshua Bell is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso. As part of a fantastic experiment in context, perception, public taste and priorities, Joshua Bell agreed to play his Stradivarius incognito at the L\u2019Enfant Plaza station in DC at 8 am on Friday, January 12 in the middle of the morning rush hour.\n In the next 43 minutes, 1,097 people passed by as Joshua performed his classical pieces. Only twenty-seven people gave money, most of them on the run \u2013 providing $32.17! The other 1,070 just hurried by, oblivious, few bothering to even look!\n I bet he would have received about the same amount of attention in NY. We New Yorkers are more \u201cbusy\u201d and \u201cimportant\u201d than government workers in DC, but that would be compensated by the slightly higher percentage appreciating the music and maybe recognizing Bell \ud83d\ude42\n Read the full article and watch the videos at:\n http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/04\/AR2007040401721.html\n ","Category":["Interesting Articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17272,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/17272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}