Is Classical Music Dead?
What happens when one of the world's very finest classical violinists spends a day busking in a busy Washington D.C. subway station? Do crowds develop and everyday life come to a screeching halt thanks to the unassailable beauty of the fiddler's performance on his multimillion-dollar Stradivarius? The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten took Joshua Bell into the Metro to find out, and his story is a stunner. [via The Rest Is Noise]




