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1. The author won the Pulitzer for this story 2. After winning the Pulitzer, a librarian sent the author a page from a 1930 newspaper that featured a similar p
by jancsika 4y ago
1. The author won the Pulitzer for this story
2. After winning the Pulitzer, a librarian sent the author a page from a 1930 newspaper that featured a similar prank in Chicago
3. The violinist from that story-- Jacques Gordon-- performed the prank using the same Stradivarius violin that Joshua Bell used from 1991 to 2001. (Unfortunately, Bell's prank happened in 2007-- if it had been six years earlier we would have had both pranks on the same violin!)
4. Author wrote another story about 1-3:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401153.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/0...
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It's obvious what needs to happen next:
5. Find out who owns that Strad now, run the same prank with the same story, write a follow up about discovering Bell and Gordon's pranks, and finally, write a follow-up to the follow-up about discovering Weingarten's follow-up.
- permo-w 4y agoperhaps I’m being overly cynical here, but how is this even remotely worthy of a Pulitzer? it’s a slightly more highbrow version of the “Elvis at an Elvis lookalike competition” story with what I would describe as a pretty heavy lack of self-awareness regarding the violin world