[microsound] Exit Through the Gift Shop (Disneyland)

David Powers cyborgk at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 14:07:07 EST 2011


Wow!

I wonder if it would be different in different places... I have
definitely seen people in Chicago paying attention to the street
musicians who are reasonably good, but, it certainly is a little
disheartening to see read this.

David

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:14 AM, hans w. koch <kochhw at netcologne.de> wrote:
> i remember reading something about the washington post just doing that:
> they got joshua bell (one of the best violin virtuosi) to play in a subway station in the morning rush hour.
> few people actually noticed, that this was no ordinary street music...
> here it is (first link from google): http://www.hoax-slayer.com/joshua-bell-subway.shtml
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> www.hans-w-koch.net
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> Am 18.02.2011 um 01:52 schrieb microsound-request at or8.net:
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>> Actually, I think it would be absolutely amazing to hire a
>> professional string quartet, for instance, to play music in the
>> subway, perhaps playing some original music or Beethoven quartets
>> (though the logic would be severely disrupted, obviously)... letting
>> people hear music in an unusual place and be surprised.
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