Mitch Friedfeld wrote:

>If Joshua Bell, dressed in normal clothes and wearing a Washington
>Nationals baseball cap, were to play outside your local subway station,
>would you even recognize him?  Would many passers-by?  Would you or they
>give him money?  Click the link below for an absolutely fascinating
>article in the Washington Post about what happened when Bell did just
>that. 

I feel that was a foolish exercise.  People rushing to meet a commitment
whether it be a departing plane, train, a medical appointment, time
critical job, etc.  hardly have the time to give anyone, doing anything,
much attention and hence the ability to appreciate the value of any
street musician even if he were Apollo (clothed, of course) himself.

"Norman M. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>

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