Virtuoso Busking

[tmcg]

As linked by sleigh and fastfwd (that I've seen so far), Pearls Before Breakfast by Gene Weingarten, an interesting and very nicely written Washington Post article about an experiment setting up a virtuoso musician as a subway busker to see what kind of response there'd be from passersby. Includes video.

Comments

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's about the limit for instruments on my income! I wouldn't even want to hold a $3.5M violin, for fear I'd drop the damned thing...

Heck, his insurance on the instrument is probably more than my annual income. :-)

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes! And the same here, about holding a violin that valuable.