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  5. Un genio del violín es ignorado en el metro [Experimento del Washington

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VIDEO

  1. Jascha Heifetz, Iconic Violinist

  2. Joe's Violin

  3. The Theft, Recovery, and Legend of Joshua Bell’s Red Stradivarius Violin

  4. ‘Violins of Hope’ performance honors Holocaust victims with restored instruments

  5. Joshua Bell's 'Stop and Hear the Music' metro experiment

  6. Violinist Joshua Bell's full concert at Washington's Union Station

COMMENTS

  1. Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation ...

    By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a …

  2. Gene Weingarten: Setting the record straight on

    He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. Two 16 days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the...

  3. The time violinist Joshua Bell went busking in the …

    Joshua Bell is one of the world’s great virtuosos, and one of the biggest names in classical music. And in 2007 he did some anonymous busking, as a little social experiment to see what might happen. Joshua Bell sets up …

  4. Joshua Bell

    In an experiment initiated by The Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten, Bell donned a baseball cap and played as an incognito busker at the Metro subway station L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., on January 12, 2007. The experiment was videotaped on hidden camera; of the 1,097 people who passed by, seven stopped to listen to him, and one recognized him. For his nearly 45-minute performance, Bell collected $32.17 from 27 passersby (excluding $20 from the …

  5. Joshua Bell's 'Stop and Hear the Music' metro experiment

    49K. 8.5M views 17 years ago #WashingtonPost #JoshuaBell. Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar …

  6. Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell delights masses at DC …

    In 2007, Grammy-winning Joshua Bell donned a baseball cap and played Bach on his violin during rush hour in a D.C. Metro station as part of a Washington Post social …

  7. Violinist at the Metro Experiment: The Perception of Beauty

    On Friday, January 12, 2007, Joshua Bell, a world-renowned classical violinist, began to play in a Washington D.C. metro station. Bell was wearing jeans, a long sleeve tee-shirt, and a baseball cap.

  8. Joshua Bell and the Washington Post Subway Experiment.flv

    Joshua Bell, one of the best concert violinist in the world played for free, for 45 minutes, on a violin worth 3.5 million dollars at a subway station. Over a thousand people passed by Bell,...