ping
is that the sound of a violin i hear?
A starving artist he ain’t. But do check him out on Spotify. A masterful violinist (fiddler?), indeed.
Love him!
An interesting story about Joshua Bell. As the subject of a Wash. Post article, he played anonymously in the D.C. Metro as an experiment to see if people would recognize a virtuosic performance or just pass by as if they were hearing a street performer. What do you think happened?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw
Recommended on Spotify: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor Op. 64, Joshua Bell with Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Mariner conducting.
Had an enjoyable chat with him and his accompanist, Jean-Yves Thibodet, some years back.
My date had gone to high school with him and was in the class of his younger sister, whom she had known well. I persuaded her to come and meet with them after their recital.