Pulitzer Prize-Winning Busker Stunt Had Already Been Done
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.30.08 | 3:51 PM ET
In Chicago. In 1930. Gene Weingarten’s story, which chronicled what happened when “internationally acclaimed virtuoso” Joshua Bell busked for 43 minutes at the L’Enfant Plaza metro station in Washington D.C., unknowingly covered ground already trod in the Windy City.
Like Bell, Jacques Gordon performed on a Stradivarius, played Massenet’s “Meditation” from “Thais” and Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” and made very little money for his virtuosity. The headline of the Chicago Evening Post story: “Famous Fiddler in Disguise Gets $5.61 in Curb Concerts.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Michelle 06.30.08 | 10:10 PM ET
It also happened in NYC way before Joshua Bell’s stunt:
http://sawlady.com/blog/?p=151
Nothing new under the sun.