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Hank Ruf
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Little Elm, Texas USA
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 28 Jan 2012 9:46 am |
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| maybe it's just that not too many everyday people really dig this type of violin music. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 28 Jan 2012 9:51 am
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people ain't got no mo' time !
all those fleeting little moments that are given free so often go unnoticed
when it's too late....................Jack you dead ! |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Bill Rowlett
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Russellville, AR, USA
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 31 Jan 2012 5:57 am
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Ive seen and read this story before. As a musician, I would stop and listen, certainly recognizing talent when heard, unless I was really in a rush too. I think many people are just not drawn to music the way musicians always are. When it is out of context (they arent going to a concert, but commuting), any music tends to fall into the background music of life category. Im sure many enjoyed it as they walked by however. Location has a lot to do with it. Most folks in the subway (well...in NYC, when I lived there) passed by plenty of talented subway performers on their way to work. Most are going to work and are focused on catching a train, and really may not have time to stop and listen. Its not a friendly atmosphere generally. More of a dont make eye contact and mind your business attitude I find. Thats why they call it rush hour.
Another factor is that the subway may tend to create a bit of nervous anxiety in the average commuter, with so many in close proximity in a tunnel. I might be a bit more nervous if I was him, playing a million dollar instrument in such a spontaneous environment, haha.
I'll posit that if he played in Central Park on a Sunday on a nice day, he would most likely have a very large crowd for quite some time. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd, but unfortunately in this experiment, a crowd in motion tends to stay in motion.
Clete
Last edited by Clete Ritta on 31 Jan 2012 6:21 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Hank Ruf
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Little Elm, Texas USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2012 6:20 am
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| The point, as I see it, is that we go through life and we sometimes miss some of best things life has to offer. |
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 31 Jan 2012 6:22 am
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I agree! "Make time to stop and smell the roses" is the phrase that comes to mind.
Although the subway aint a bed of roses or Carnegie Hall either, the acoustic reverb is excellent! 
Clete |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 31 Jan 2012 6:28 pm
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| I think many people are just not drawn to music the way musicians always are. |
Quite true. Only a small fraction of the population are musicians, and of that small fraction, the vast majority of them would not care for classical music, regardless of how good the player was. As the old saying goes, there is no accounting for taste...or talent, in this case.
At the I.S.G.C. back in the '70s, when Chalker was in his prime, I saw a number of players scurry out mumbling as soon as "Curls" started playing. Of course, they all scurried back in, all smiles, when Ralph Mooney started playing.  |
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John Ed Kelly
From:
Victoria, Australia
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Posted 31 Jan 2012 9:44 pm
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Clete Ritta sums it all up excellently!
I'm a muso and I don't like to stop in tunnels either, to listen to music. |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 31 Jan 2012 11:47 pm
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| This is not surprising. People have places to get to at rush hour. I wouldn't have stopped either if my job depended on me getting there on time. |
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