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Joshua Bell, one of the greatest classical musicians in the world, dressed up like a street musician and played in the metro train station in DC In a curious experiment initiated by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten, Bell donned a baseball cap and played as an incognito street busker at the Metro subway station L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. on January 12, 2007. The experiment was videotaped on hidden camera; among 1,097 people who passed by, onl |
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Did he make some mad coinage? |
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he made 38 dollars and 15 cents if i recall. and he said, "thats pretty good. 40 dollars an hour without having to go through an agent" |
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what do you suppose weingarten or bell were expecting? when was the last time you saw a busker get a standing ovation or a demand for an encore? did they think that most people would be able to tell the difference between the world's best and a merely competent musician in the span of 30 seconds when they passed him on the street, with traffic noise and other pedestrians etc? |
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