“Pearls Before Breakfast”

From the details on the Ytube vid.

“Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.

It was 9 minutes to eight in the morning on Friday, January 12 in 2007, the middle of the morning rush hour. L’Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job.

On that Friday, outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators one of the finest classical musicians in the world played some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMyXfdk_Fp8

So, next performance you take in consider what makes a performance “great”, because it may not be just the music.