On my way home from work a few weeks ago I heard about a story on NPR that made me laugh. The concept to me is genius and was lucky enough to find the original article written by a journalist at the Washington Post.
During the early morning rush in the entrance to the L'Enfant Plaza building in Washington D.C. a man in his late thirties wearing a t-shirt, jeans and a baseball cap pulls out a violin, throws some change into the case and starts to play. This is nothing out of the ordinary as street performers are a dime a dozen, but this one is different. His name is Joshua Bell and he's "...one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made."
Let the social experiment begin...
the full video can be found here
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