![]() Since I'm now back in DC for the weekend (until Sunday night, when I leave again for ATL), it's only appropriate to share a DC-inspired poem. I love this poem by David Lee Garrison--I so often see performers in or around the metro, but just like the people in this poem, am usually in too much of a hurry to stop and listen, or to stop and drop money into their instrument cases. This poem speaks about an interesting experiment by The Washington Post and points out our inability to stop and recognize beauty or talent in our busy, daily lives... So press pause and enjoy! Bach in the DC Subway
As an experiment, The Washington Post asked a concert violinist— wearing jeans, tennis shoes, and a baseball cap-- to stand near a trash can at rush hour in the subway and play Bach on a Stradivarius. Partita No. 2 in D Minor called out to commuters like an ocean to waves, sang to the station about why we should bother to live. A thousand people streamed by. Seven of them paused for a minute or so and thirty-two dollars floated into the open violin case. A café hostess who drifted over to the open door each time she was free said later that Bach gave her peace, and all the children, all of them, waded into the music as if it were water, listening until they had to be rescued by parents who had somewhere else to go. Great poem, yes? Maybe this will remind us all to pause the next time that we pass by a street performer and truly listen to what they're sharing (not that they're all concert musicians, but you never know!)... And with that, I'm off to enjoy a beautiful saturday staycation by the pool :) Namaste! Mary Catherine 5/29/2011 04:48:25 am
Amazing. And to think, those same people probably would have paid $100+ to see that concert violinist at a special venue, and could barely appreciate him in this everyday space. xoxo Comments are closed.
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