Where the Beauty Is (or Isn’t)

A few years ago Joshua Bell, a Grammy award-winning world class violinist, played a brief concert in a Washington DC subway for 43 minutes and made $32.17 in donations.

He usually makes around $1,000 per minute.

The Washington Post conducted the experiment. A short excerpt from the full article:

“His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities — as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?”

The 43 minute concert, played on Bell’s $3.5 million dollar Stradivarius, was captured on video…

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