Re: FW: PERCEPTION

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... Something To =hink About ...

In Washington, =C, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about 3 minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to me=t his schedule.=span style="font-size: lOpt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">

The violinist rece=ved his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.=AO

A young man leaned=against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. a= all.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world.=AO He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a thea=er in Boston where the seats averaged $200 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post a= part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people&=39;s priorities.

*I= a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?

*If so, do we stop to appreciate it?

*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

you will also note that the experiment was done in wash dc.. the hightest p=rcentage of blacks in america.

But quality is obvious. Everyone recognizes it. No?