Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Josh Bell, subway busker
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon Apr 9 19:29:26 2007
References: <1be504db0704090857ub7f9737hca44f8a3c1fc2e06@mail.gmail.com>

Great article - this reminds me of scenes from Steinbeck's "Cannery Row",
where hobos would not turn around to see a circus arriving in town, and this
book must have been written in the 1940s.
Cheers
Jayanand

On 4/9/07, Phil Swango <pswango@att.net> wrote:
>
> This is wildly OT so DEL if you don't care about music.  The Washington
> Post
> set up a stunt to have virtuoso violinist Josh Bell play for spare change
> in
> the Washington Metro.  During the morning rush hour he stood in the
> L'Enfant
> Plaza Metro station and played for almost an hour a repertoire that
> included
> JS Bach's Chaconne from the 2nd Partita.  Hidden cameras recorded the
> whole
> thing and reporters interviewed commuters.  Read about it here and watch a
> short video:  http://tinyurl.com/29fm8s
>
>
>
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