Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Pearls Before Breakfast
In this article of reading, "Pearls Before Breakfast," you get to see the different aspects of music and what are some of the factors that effect it. While Joshua Bell is playing at the Metro, he does not get the attention that is wanted for this experiment. While he is playing, he does not get much of any donations, does not get many listeners, or even any looks from any of the people passing by. Even though Bell is playing some of the best music ever made on his violin, no one seems to really care because they have places to be or don't want to stop and have to give a donation. I think that if the people passing by were really dedicated to the music that Bell was playing, then those types of people would have stopped and listened for a little bit and maybe even given a donation. But most people are not interested in people playing an instrument in a random place because they don't know them, usually do not know the material, and also do not want to take money out of their own wallet for something they could careless about. This was the main problem for Joshua Bell at the Metro.
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Maybe most of those people don't like classical violin music. Alomst everyone was in a hurry anyway so it's not like they had time to listen. Some of them might have stopped and listened if they had time.
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree with you, I would just like to point out that this was the point of the experiment. The point wasn't to see just how much attention he would get, the point was to see if anyone would recognize the musical genius that he is and if he would get ANY attention if they took him out of his normal element and placed him where no one would notice him. I do agree with you though that if more people were dedicated to the music, they would have recognized the genius he is. Unfortunately, it's a dying genre of music that's listened to less and less these days.
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