July 2nd, 2009 in 1.4 million people have seen this movie already, but don’t let that stop you. A few days after selling out Boston’s Symphony Hall, one of the world’s best violinists went busking with his Stradivarius for 43 minutes in a DC metro station. A thousand people streamed past. A handful stopped, nobody clapped … and he made $32.
Grab a coffee and read Gene Weingarten’s story in The Washington Post. He arranged the performance as “as an experiment in context, perception and priorities”.
Do I want to make a cheap marketing point out of this? Not really, but it makes you think.
Cheers, Ian
PS Sal Criscillo told Marg Straw who told Johannes van Kan who told me. We’d love you to tell us what you notice.
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