Famous classical violinist plays in subway station - No one notices

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God, this is just the epitome of self-aggrandizing douche baggery. This article is just a really long way to say that if you arent a part of high-brow culture you must be a brain-dead moran, and not someone who just wants to get home to his wife and kids asap.

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They should have put Charlie Daniels at the other side of the station.

[DeezNuts]

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God, this is just the epitome of self-aggrandizing douche baggery. This article is just a really long way to say that if you arent a part of high-brow culture you must be a brain-dead moran, and not someone who just wants to get home to his wife and kids asap.

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I don't think that is what the article is saying at all. It's about context and noticing brilliance in an otherwise normal, mundane setting. The example they give about putting a valuable painting in a restaurant illustrates this.

I also think it is making the opposite statement on high-brow culture, as I bet many of the people passed by actually listen to classical music, but can only recognize him if they pay $100 for seats in a concert hall. Why are they paying for that if they can't even recognize his music?

DN

[TheDudeAbides]

Slight threadjack - but is a violin the same thing as a fiddle? With the only difference being the person who is playing it?

[NT!]

I bet he would have made more if he played the Godfather theme

[Aloysius]

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God, this is just the epitome of self-aggrandizing douche baggery. This article is just a really long way to say that if you arent a part of high-brow culture you must be a brain-dead moran, and not someone who just wants to get home to his wife and kids asap.

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I don't think that is what the article is saying at all. It's about context and noticing brilliance in an otherwise normal, mundane setting. The example they give about putting a valuable painting in a restaurant illustrates this.

DN

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That's a good summary.

They should've done this during the weekend or something.

I'm sure there are more than a few people that passed right by him that would pay hundreds of dollars to watch him perform in a concert hall.

Again not surprising, but a takeaway from the article for me was how studied / contrived people's "tastes" are in things.

-Al

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Slight threadjack - but is a violin the same thing as a fiddle? With the only difference being the person who is playing it?

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Pretty much.

Fiddle Wiki

[RacersEdge]

To make it a real experiment, they need a regular violinist playing in the same area for the same time and see the difference in $ collected.

[cbloom]

How many people walking by an article on 2+2 actually read it? Just about zero. You people are all missing the point.

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The event had been described to him as a test of whether, in an incongruous context, ordinary people would recognize genius.


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It's not about how much money he could make. In fact people tossing him bits of money is just evidence that they weren't paying attention to him and just doing it like any other street musician.

ps. the article is just horribly written.

[skunkworks]

cbloom, I thought it was written well in a light, breezy, not-so-academically-rigorous way that befitted the casual nature of the experiment.