Jon Gallant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>What strikes me as most discouraging is NOT that the Metro commuters
>failed to notice that the busker was the famous violinist Joshua Bell.
>That is just a matter of the celebrity culture crap.  No, the saddest
>part is that only 0.6% of them stopped for even a minute to listen to
>an expert performance of the Bach Chaconne in D minor, one of the
>Himalayan pinnacles of serious music.

I would like to see someone run a similar experiment featuring some
current popular music performer.  Would that attract a crowd? I would
be most curious.

  Karl

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