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Wednesday, April 18. 2007

Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza

He brought his Strad, too, and picked up an easy, tax-free $32.

I think it was a delightfully wacky thing to do. Story here. The audio here. (h/t, reader)

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 09:42 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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An easy $32, tax-free. Hmmm.. Thanks for the tip. :)
#1 mika. on 2007-04-18 10:53 (Reply)
An altogether different contemplation is his Ave Maria set against/amid the noise of our usual commerce.
#2 char on 2007-04-18 11:10 (Reply)
Oh thank you so much!

Several years ago a young Asian woman was chosen to be the top recipient of an award as a Canadian artist. My apologies I don't know the name of that award, but I do know it is a recognition by the Canadian government. This little gal took her instrument across country on a road trip with her family(immigrants). The most memorable piece of this story is that she walked into a "real" truck stop and began playing her Cello and all was silent--there were tears, as people began to understand that this young woman was taking her prize and her gift back to the people. I heard this story several years ago on CBC Radio.
#3 apple pie on 2007-04-18 11:54 (Reply)
Which brings me to a question. I am looking into the purchase of a player(PC based). Do you know if there are very high quality collections of classical music that one can download from? My beloved is forever connected to his Ipod with great oldies, and country and western music. I would like to have the similar experience with great classical music. Any insights, or suggestions would be appreciated.
#4 apple pie on 2007-04-18 12:00 (Reply)
In my opinion, Naxos has the best web offering. Here's a sample:

http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/837.htm
#4.1 mika. on 2007-04-18 12:14 (Reply)
Probably most of us here linger or even stop for “sidewalk” musicians, give a few bucks, applaud. Some of them are unpaid pros and others just have the joy or temerity, but it’s always serendipity to run across them. The best I ever heard were in St. Petersburg and Tokyo but my favorite was a clarinetist who started playing at a lonely neighborhood lake here at home. He gifted us with classical, jazz and improv for five days and made the waters sing, until someone complained about the unauthorized noise and the police chased him away. He hadn’t asked for money, just a place to share some music, and we couldn’t allow him and ourselves that.
#5 char on 2007-04-18 12:49 (Reply)
It probably wasn't the music that bothered the complainants. First the clarinetists came, then barbarian hordes raided the fridge.
#6 buddy larsen on 2007-04-18 13:51 (Reply)
You actually might have something there. Could be they was worried he’d bring along his black brothers and groupies, at some point. Hard to know.
#7 char on 2007-04-18 14:17 (Reply)
It is a shame that an artist has to struggle. Like me, for instance. People go out of their way to insult my chew-tobacco odes to Jackson Pollock.
#8 buddy larsen on 2007-04-18 14:45 (Reply)
Spitting image?

http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/images/feature33.jpg
#9 char on 2007-04-18 15:55 (Reply)
I've got Bell’s “Red Violin” among some other recordings of his. All I could find on the net were these few frustrating seconds of Corigliano + Bell = entrancing music. # 1, 4 and 5 and try #10, too.

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:aIa8L360hgYJ:www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/redviolin+%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=39&gl=us
#10 char on 2007-04-18 17:04 (Reply)
"spitting image" --LOL
#11 buddy larsen on 2007-04-18 18:11 (Reply)

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