Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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Who would think! The case of Joshua Bell

not to blame the Indian but it does my friend, the wise proverb says Mexican is well you can apply to the virtuoso Joshua Bell (39 years, confirmed bachelor, attractive young women to die for.) Only newspaper The Washington Post came up lazy to do an experiment: put one of the best violinists in the world to play in cognito inside a subway station in the U.S. capital on Friday, January 12 (2007) at eight o'clock. The time when people, mostly federal bureaucrats at the station where the experiment was performed, go to the races to get to work. And Joshua Bell was just naive enough to consent to be used for idle American newspaper experiment, intended to show whether the average pedestrian is sensitive enough to stay and listen to music masterpieces or simply, as it happened, it follows long. If anything demonstrated the experiment is that if art is sublime, on the other hand, as Oscar Wilde said, "is absolutely useless at the time of check card. People who go to work is still long, no matter what you put for the move to one of the best violinists in the world, regardless of singing make a Stradivarius worth some four billion dollars, and without matter that gives life to the masterpieces of classical music. Everything has its time, ruling the Bible. There is a time to laugh and one to mourn, a time to read The Washington Post and other Corn Flakes for breakfast, there is a time to check card and another to hear Joshua Bell play for free! Certainly any connoisseur would say that should be very, very stupid hopelessly who pass by when one of the best violinists in the world giving a free concert in a public place. Overall, there is always the wonderful excuse to explain to the boss frowning, termination of a contract in hand, if one arrived two hours late for work is that it was hearing a concert by Joshua Bell in the subway. Yes, Joshua Bell, who at 14 took the solos of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Muti large, which we are enthralled with the music of The Red Violin, which won a Grammy, then. The fact is that not everyone knows Mr. Bell, and in fact virtually nobody recognized him, except, according to the Post - a bureaucrat who gave $ 20. Twenty dollars for a concert violinist whose tickets are priced hundreds of dollars! (Side note, the impromptu recital at Joshua Bell paid off 37.12 dollars, not counting the twenty listed. Yes, people threw pennies and who gives money to a beggar.) It is true that Joshua Bell was "disguised" as violinist street, beggar musician, with his jeans, a sweatshirt and cap, but the hypothesis of the experiment was over whether, regardless of the façade of the artifice, the art is in itself so sublime that it should move the masses. Sure!, And Jean Baptiste Grenouille moved the mob and escaped execution thanks to the art of perfumery and a Guernica should stop massacres or Joshua Bell agglomerated masses of bureaucrats around him. But it was not. The virtuous, on the other hand super attractive to girls, Joshua Bell played and played his violin, and hardly anyone took it into account. The case has shocked the music lovers around the world, although one wonders how many of those same music lovers would not have done the same thing to be unaware that the ragged boy who was playing the violin in the subway was one of the best violinists in the world. In other words, is truly sublime art itself or are so commonplace that we need the place, advertising, media paraphernalia all for giving gifts to culture? "Conclusions derived from the judicious experiment: 1) in general, everyday users Enfant station (where it was held of yore) are an ignorant Runfla without any artistic sensibility, no matter how attractive, charismatic or virtuous was the artist who introduced them, 2) playing the violin in some U.S. metro stations are profitable, and sorry, if question one of the best violinists in the world; 3) some U.S. media have enough power to subdue the cream and cream their stupid culture experiments, and 4) Brad Pitt classical music failed him dozens of fanatical fans who harass the end of each concert. Better luck, we would have run Joshua Bell submitted a holiday in a plaza or public park. But equally, without neglecting the undeniable talent of Joshua Bell, may have had better luck Bond girls.

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