Would 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

Would 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.