Sort by Wired Science (Free subscription) - 07/03/2008 - YouTube
Will one of the nation's greatest musicians be noticed in a D.C. Metro stop during rush hour? Violinist Joshua Bell experimented for Gene Weingarten'...
Sort by Wired Science (Free subscription) - 07/03/2008
Scientists may finally have discovered the secret of Stradivarius violins. In a study published yesterday in Public Library of Science ONE, Dutch researchers ran five of the peerless instruments, made in the early 18th century by Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari...
Sort by Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) - 05/15/2009
Web 2.0 has hundreds of sites to help artists collaborate. Sites like Indaba and WeBooks host communities where artists can connect and work on creating music or writing the next great American novel. But without some marketing they're going nowhere. Indaba was launched in 2007 and by early 2009 had grown to over 125,000 musicians. Indaba has been particularly successful with re-mix contests with...
Sort by 西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) - 07/15/2009
"No one applauded" when "Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world," "played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars" — A True Story . "Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities" — Joshua Bell Plays in Subway . "The questions...
Sort by The Jeff Pulver Blog (Free subscription) - 05/03/2009
(Just discovered this story today. I believe the lesson to be learned is still a good one two years later.) From April 11, 2007 - NPR:All Things Considered Virtuoso concert violinist Joshua Bell plays more than 200 international bookings a year. But in January, he found himself performing during rush hour for morning commuters at a metro station in Washington, D.C. Bell, who on Tuesday won the Avery...
Sort by Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech (Free subscription) - 09/01/2008
HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his [...]
Sort by SchansBlog (Free subscription) - 10/30/2009
Excerpts from a fascinating but very long article by the Washington Post 's Gene Weingarten asked that question with an intriguing social experiment (hat tip: Rusty Russell from the communion devotional in last week's worship service-- as he related to the way many of us "interact" with Jesus)... He merged from the Metro at the L'Enfant Plaza station and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash...
Sort by Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) - 08/03/2009
What if you could listen to a 43-minute concert by one of the world’s greatest violinists, playing some of the most beautiful music ever written on an instrument worth $3.5 million, for free? About a year ago, 1,097 people in...
Sort by No fighting, no biting! (Free subscription) - 01/10/2009
that if we had been in that METRO station I would have had the kids sit in a circle around Joshua and just listen. A museum can wait, it will still be there next time, but to hear this is priceless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw I don't know who wrote this, but it certainly made an impact on me: A man sat at a metro station in Washington, DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold...
Sort by Langwitches (Free subscription) - 06/23/2008
I just heard about an interesting experiment. Gene Weingarten, a Washington Post journalist, and Joshua Bell, a young man decided to test people in the Washington D.C. subway. Read the entire story in the article in the Washington Post No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an [...]
Sort by Esteem News (Free subscription) - 04/22/2009
Can people recognize a street musician through the fog of a D.C. rush hour and give his music esteem? Joshua Bell, one of the finest classical musicians in the world, placed himself against a wall in a metro station in Washington, took his most valuable Stradivari violin and started to play some of the most elegant music [...]
Sort by Money Making and Blogging Tips (Free subscription) - 05/15/2009
WashingtonPost.com is the official site of The Washington Post, a leading newspaper in the state of Washington D.C. that provides news on politics and international affairs. Website Outlook Price: $5.99 million The newspaper is owned by The Washington Post Company which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as WPO. It was founded in 1877. In 1889, John Philip Sousa composed a song entitled: "The...
Sort by Idle Musings (Free subscription) - 04/28/2009
A few years ago, Joshua Bell, one of the best violinist alive, did an experiment for Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post. If nobody knew who he was and he set-up shop in a DC Metro and played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes would anybody even notice. Alas, not so much. It should [...]
