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Morning rush hour, when people literally do not have time to hang around.Androsphinx wrote:Then busk at a DC subway station during rush hour.
This is staged and completely over-analysed. Yes of course people don't have time to stand around. They're likely thinking about work and too busy even to notice. The article is all 'oh they're not real people, the artist is the only real person there'. Actually the arrogance is entirely on the part of the artists for thinking that they're so important that people should interrupt the busiest part of their day - pay attention, drop what they're doing and make themselves late for work just to stand in awe of a performer. Music, like all art, is ultimately just entertainment. People want entertainment on their own terms. Is this supposed to be a surprise?A couple of minutes into it, something revealing happens. A woman and her preschooler emerge from the escalator. The woman is walking briskly and, therefore, so is the child. She's got his hand.
"I had a time crunch," recalls Sheron Parker, an IT director for a federal agency. "I had an 8:30 training class, and first I had to rush Evvie off to his teacher, then rush back to work, then to the training facility in the basement."
Evvie is her son, Evan. Evan is 3.
You can see Evan clearly on the video. He's the cute black kid in the parka who keeps twisting around to look at Joshua Bell, as he is being propelled toward the door.
"There was a musician," Parker says, "and my son was intrigued. He wanted to pull over and listen, but I was rushed for time."
So Parker does what she has to do. She deftly moves her body between Evan's and Bell's, cutting off her son's line of sight. As they exit the arcade, Evan can still be seen craning to look. When Parker is told what she walked out on, she laughs.
"Evan is very smart!"
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