Street busker

The blogger who commented about street buskers below (sounds very British, doesn't it?) reminds me to give you the link to an interesting project by superstar violinist (and Indiana-grown) Josh Bell, at the request of a Washington Post writer. Bell played his 300-year-old Stradivarius violin incognito at a Metro station during rush hour. Did anyone notice the quality of his Bach Chaconne? (There's video, too.) He earned about $38, and gave it to the person who had lent him the violin case to use for tips, he told NPR. It's interesting that shortly after this, Bell won the $75,000 Avery Fisher Prize.