Since We're Going on About Art...
Ignore the editorial section of the Washington Post, but do yourself a favor and take ten minutes to read, and listen, to this piece, cited by David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo. How much of appreciating art is about context, patience, time?
An extraordinarily gifted musician performs extraordinarily beautiful music in a subway station. Who listens?
posted by Corresponding Secretary General at 10:51 AM
2 Comments:
A touching piece.
From the article...
"The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.
There was no ethnic or demographic pattern to distinguish the people who stayed to watch Bell, or the ones who gave money, from that vast majority who hurried on past, unheeding. Whites, blacks and Asians, young and old, men and women, were represented in all three groups. But the behavior of one demographic remained absolutely consistent. Every single time a child walked past, he or she tried to stop and watch. And every single time, a parent scooted the kid away."
Imagine my relief at discovering, on Mr. Bell's web site, that if I cannot reasonably expect to see him in concert any time soon, I may seek solace in the purchase of a ringtone.
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