WOW -- one of the most fascinating articles I've read in a long time, and a brilliant social experiment.
I don't think you have much to worry about. The people who never fear missing anything, to whom it never occurs to consider what they might miss, are the ones who are most likely to miss out.
can't take total credit for running across it... the boyfriend sent it to me on his lunch break, and i ended up sticking around well into mine to read and ponder.
but really. for every time i've been blown over by something as simple as a flower along a roadside, how many masterpieces have i passed by while wrapped up in my own little world? then again... i suppose my brain might implode if i noticed, if i really perceived, all the beauty surrounding us.
Wow. Brilliant article, idea, everything. I know that I might not have stopped to watch if I really were in a hurry, but I also know that it's a rare occasion when I don't notice music, especially something that doesn't belong. I like to think I might have stopped, given the opportunity.
I also LOVE that all the children passing by noticed.
I might have recognized the man or his sound. However...
"Bell decided to begin with "Chaconne" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor."
That would have stopped me dead in my tracks. I'm not a big violin fan, but Bach's Partita in D Minor is some of the greatest violin music ever written. I would stop to listen to any competent artist render it.
Hilary Hahn does a great version, but hers is 17 minutes, not 14. She once had a great quote about it on NPR. When she plays it, she sometimes has an out of body experience of watching herself play, lost in the music.
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I don't think you have much to worry about. The people who never fear missing anything, to whom it never occurs to consider what they might miss, are the ones who are most likely to miss out.
THANKS so much for pointing us to this piece!
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but really. for every time i've been blown over by something as simple as a flower along a roadside, how many masterpieces have i passed by while wrapped up in my own little world? then again... i suppose my brain might implode if i noticed, if i really perceived, all the beauty surrounding us.
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It's all been done.
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I also LOVE that all the children passing by noticed.
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"Bell decided to begin with "Chaconne" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor."
That would have stopped me dead in my tracks. I'm not a big violin fan, but Bach's Partita in D Minor is some of the greatest violin music ever written. I would stop to listen to any competent artist render it.
Hilary Hahn does a great version, but hers is 17 minutes, not 14. She once had a great quote about it on NPR. When she plays it, she sometimes has an out of body experience of watching herself play, lost in the music.
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