Who is the famous violinist, who only 6 people listen to and tip 32 dollars when Bach is played on the subway?

Joshua interpreted 6 works by Schubert, Massanet, and Bach for 43 minutes. Joshua performed these difficult-to-play works on his $3.5 million violin.

3 minutes later: 63 people passed by the musician. First, a middle-aged man noticed the violinist, slowed down, and sped off again to his job, which he had to catch in just twenty seconds. 4 minutes later: The violinist gets his first $1 tip. A woman hurried past without stopping to walk, dropping a dollar tip into the box in front of the violinist.

6 minutes later: Only six minutes after the violinist started playing, a man paused in front of the violinist to listen, but then glanced at his watch and quickly continued on his way. After 10 minutes: The most it is a five-year-old boy who stops to listen to the violinist. Despite his mother's tugging, the boy stops and stares intently at the violinist. In the end, the mother is forced to walk, pulling the child faster. The boy turns from time to time to look at the violinist he has gone away from but continues to walk helplessly.

A few more children want to stop and watch the violinist, but they too cannot resist their mother's or father's tugging and are forced to walk. After 43 minutes: The experiment is complete. The balance sheet of 43 minutes is 1070 listeners and only $32 gross. In total, 7 people stop briefly to listen to it. Only a woman knows Joshua.

After 43 minutes of Joshua playing, he has only 7 listeners in total and earns $32. A person gives $20 of the $32 he earns. However, Joshua gives a concert in Boston two days before this experiment, and all tickets with an average selling price of $100 are sold out! So how and why did this happen?

We need to slow down to notice the details. However, the paradox is that most of us don't have time to slow down. While slowing down and stopping is a “luxury” for many of us, stopping seems like something unacceptable for some of us!

What made Joshua Bell famous?

Joshua Bell, (born December 9, 1967, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.), American musician whose technical accomplishments and versatility in classical and popular music made him one of the most successful and critically lauded violinists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Before this experiment, he asked Leonard Slatkin, the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of America, "If the best violin virtuoso in the world had performed to a thousand people in the subway station, what would it look like?" When asked, he replied, “35-40 people know, 75-100 people take the time and maybe listen”. “Well, how much tip does it collect?” when he was asked, he guessed “150 dollars but only collects” and was badly mistaken as a result…

Who is Joshua Bell?

Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. His mother, Shirley, is a therapist, and his father, Alan Bell, is a psychologist at Indiana University in Bloomington. His father is of Scottish descent, and his mother is Jewish (his maternal grandfather was Israeli and his maternal grandmother was born in Minsk). Bell gave an interview in the Jewish Journal, saying "I define myself as a Jew". He started taking violin lessons at the age of four. His family bought him a violin when he was five years old.

At the age of 14, he took part as a soloist in the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Joshua Bell was born in 1985, at the age of 17, at Carnegie Hall, one of the world's most famous concert halls in Manhattan, New York. He worked with the Louis Symphony. Since then, he has performed many times with the world's greatest orchestras and conductors.

Bell's instrument is Antonio Stradivari's 300-year-old Stradivarius violin, made in 1713.

The time when Joshua Bell went busking in the subway, and no-one noticed

https://www.classicfm.com/artists/joshua-bell/violin-busking-washington-subway/