On Apr 9, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Chris Bolton wrote: > I had to admit to myself that I've been guilty of the same > phenomenon as > described in the following article, but I've decided to keep > listening and > plucking away in spite of the somewhat depressing state of affairs. > Is it just a romantic notion that life as a lute player would have > been > easier under the patronage of the Medici?
The thing that amused me the most about that article was the fact that Bell himself was freaked out because no-one was paying any attention to him. That must have been a strange experience for a world-class concert virtuoso! The article itself was pretentious journalistic crap...I mean: how stupid! Hey, guys, let's play some candid camera! You hide the camera, and I'll mill around in the crowd and question people about their reactions to this guy playing the violin. If anybody asks, no problem! I'll tell them I'm doing an article on commuting. What the hell, it's almost true, right? Don't be taken in by what you read in the Washington Post. That article tells me more about journalists than it does about commuters. You can be certain that thousands of commuters have paid good money to see Joshua Bell perform in his proper sphere: the concert stage. So nobody stopped to listen to him in the subway. Rest assured: there is still a concert stage out there, and always will be. David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
