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WeeCalum
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« on: 12:29:57, 10-04-2007 »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html?hpid=artslot

I don't think I would have although I would definitely have stoppped to listen.

I wonder if it was his Strad he was playing?
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« Reply #1 on: 12:37:48, 10-04-2007 »
wow.
i always stop to listen to musician in the street, even if it makes me late.
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #2 on: 12:39:47, 10-04-2007 »
According to the BBC news this morning it was his Strad but I would have thought that was too risky. So he made $32 (about £18) in 45 minutes. There was a report about beggars in Shrewsbury in my local paper yesterday and it said that according to the police they were making about £15 an hour.

It would be interesting to know how he compared with other buskers as attitudes towards them there might be quite different from here. I think Americans are much more wary of strangers.
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« Reply #3 on: 15:17:13, 10-04-2007 »
As an experiment, if it is supposed to teach us about how much the masses appreciate classical music, it's flawed to the point where it actually seems designed to fail.

I stop to listen to buskers -- but not when I'm moving through a crowded station on my way to work. It wouldn't matter what they were playing or how well they were playing, I'm on a tight schedule and keeping my job is more important than even Bach I'm afraid.

I wonder if Joshua Bell stops to listen to buskers when he's running to catch a flight to his next concert date?  Undecided

They should have put him in a shopping centre on a warm Saturday afternoon.
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« Reply #4 on: 17:02:31, 10-04-2007 »
Picture this (because it's true). 1980 or thereabouts, Westbound Central Line platform at Oxford Circus during the afternoon rush-hour. A young Afro-Caribbean gentleman wearing tails and jeans singing Italian opera accompanied by a ghetto-blaster. He had a small voice but was making about £2 a minute.
Eerily, the commuters were almost completely silent.
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