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Can beauty transcend the daily grind?

On one nondescript January morning, the Washington Post hired Joshua Bell, a world-renowned violinist, to play anonymously in L’Enfant Plaza. Thousands will stream by over the course of the morning. Does anyone stop to listen for free to a virtuoso who regularly commands over $1,000 a minute? Does it matter?

Take a few minutes and read Gene Weingarten’s excellent piece on that January morning, how it unfolds, and the implications of the results of the Post’s experiment.


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