I don't think the average person has heard enough violin music to be able to tell the difference between a slumming virtuoso and an actual panhandling street musician. Sounds like this guy did it at a lousy time, too.
I'm just surprised there weren't more people who didn't hear him because they were wearing iPods. In San Francisco, basically everyone under the age of 30 has them on at all times. Yo-Yo Ma could be playing a free concert with the Three Tenors at the Powell Street BART station, and no young person would hear a note of it.
Well whenev I hear violins I am thinking of Merchant Ivory costume dramas or Woody Allen murder scenes, and it's kind of hard for me to take it seriously, and so I probably would have thought someone had fired up Age of Innocence on their DVD player or somethin, had I been bustling past this guy on my way to work.
I am kind of surprised they thought people would stop and react on any sort of mass level.
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I don't think the average person has heard enough violin music to be able to tell the difference between a slumming virtuoso and an actual panhandling street musician. Sounds like this guy did it at a lousy time, too.
I'm just surprised there weren't more people who didn't hear him because they were wearing iPods. In San Francisco, basically everyone under the age of 30 has them on at all times. Yo-Yo Ma could be playing a free concert with the Three Tenors at the Powell Street BART station, and no young person would hear a note of it.
I'd like to think I'd be one of the ones who stopped, but in all likelihood I'd walk right past him in MP3-induced ignorance.
I don't know whether to be more depressed by the reaction of the crowd, or by the fact that I was never in any doubt that they'd react that way.
Well whenev I hear violins I am thinking of Merchant Ivory costume dramas or Woody Allen murder scenes, and it's kind of hard for me to take it seriously, and so I probably would have thought someone had fired up Age of Innocence on their DVD player or somethin, had I been bustling past this guy on my way to work.
I am kind of surprised they thought people would stop and react on any sort of mass level.
Yeah, it's not like they were giving out free chicken. Now that would draw a crowd.
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