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
Typical journalistic too-clever-by-half experiment where the outcome was known from the beginning.
At a subway station people are rushing to catch a train or, when disembarking, to go to work. D’uh!