Gene Weingarten writer for the Washington post published "Pearls before Breakfast" on April 8th, 2007. The publication became well recognized and won a Pultizer award in 2008. Pearls before Breakfast analysis” was based on an experiment with musician Joshua Bell, Where he posed as a street musician, he was placed in an uniformed environment wearing only a Washington nationals baseball cap and a long sleeve t-shirt with jeans, where mostly government employees were on their way to work and going about their daily lives. Instead of having platform and recognition he was there incognito to see who would stop and appreciate the beauty pouring out of his violin. On Friday morning in the middle of rush hour on January 12, 2007 the experiment resulted in a total of 1,097 people
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Context is best defined by how we recognize beauty in a chaotic setting. Bell, son of two psychologists, received his first music lesson at the age of 4 in Bloomington Indiana. In the article Weingarten states " His parents, both psychologists decided formal training might be a good idea after they saw that their son had strung rubber bands across his dresser drawers and was replicating classical tunes bye ear moving drawers in and out to vary the pitch," (6) with this quote we can see that there was no doubt that his musical brilliance would be well recognized in the future. At one point in the article the readers are astonished by the history and price tag of the violin Bell owns. Bell has always played with the same instrument, The Gibson ex Huberman violin that was handcrafted in 1713 by a Italian master Antonio Stradivari. The Gibson Ex Huberman cost Bell approximately $3.5 million, that he purchased by selling his old violin and borrowing the rest of the money, but it wasn't as easy as just buying it the violin went through history before it fell into the hands of the genius Joshua Bell. "In 1919 id disappeared from Huberman's hotel room in Vienna but was
Context is best defined by how we recognize beauty in a chaotic setting. Bell, son of two psychologists, received his first music lesson at the age of 4 in Bloomington Indiana. In the article Weingarten states " His parents, both psychologists decided formal training might be a good idea after they saw that their son had strung rubber bands across his dresser drawers and was replicating classical tunes bye ear moving drawers in and out to vary the pitch," (6) with this quote we can see that there was no doubt that his musical brilliance would be well recognized in the future. At one point in the article the readers are astonished by the history and price tag of the violin Bell owns. Bell has always played with the same instrument, The Gibson ex Huberman violin that was handcrafted in 1713 by a Italian master Antonio Stradivari. The Gibson Ex Huberman cost Bell approximately $3.5 million, that he purchased by selling his old violin and borrowing the rest of the money, but it wasn't as easy as just buying it the violin went through history before it fell into the hands of the genius Joshua Bell. "In 1919 id disappeared from Huberman's hotel room in Vienna but was