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Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?
- zaidf 20y agoSeth Godin's take: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/id_ignore_him_t.html http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/id_ignore_him_t.html
- rfrey 20y agoThis story is really making the rounds. It took me a few days to understand why it made me uncomfortable. I posted my thoughts yesterday. http://rodfrey.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/8/ http://rodfrey.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/8/
- juwo 20y agoWould you have passed him by? and could you recognize any of the pieces? I remember when my wife and I visited Paris on a package deal vacation a few years ago, we were enthralled by the musicians in the subway. They were ordinary musicians, but we loved their music. We did not tip more than a euro or two. But listened and chatted with them, took their photos, and could not understand why everybody simply ignored them as pests. One time it was a poor man playing the trombone skillfully, another time it was a woman violinist (a student), another time a poor man on an accordion. About as many people passed by and everyone behaved, in fact, worse than the article. No one stopped to listen, nobody even tipped one euro. So you see, it was not simply ignorant, right-wing Washington DC, but in one of the fasionable, snooty art capitals of the world that this happened.