About ten years ago, renowned violinist Joshua Bell decided to do an experiment with the help of The Washington Post. Dressed casually, he walked into a busy subway station in Washington D.C. and started playing. Then, he waited. Would the music stop anyone in their tracks?
“Every time a child passed through the station, the child wanted to stop – and every time the adult with them dragged them on to wherever they were going. And so I thought well there’s got to be a children’s book in this experience, right?”
“It’s one of the most memorable moments on stage for me because when I first started playing…it was the beginning of the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole. It’s a very virtuosic violin piece which starts off with like the equivalent of starting off with a triple axle if you were a skater, like right at the very beginning. And I just completely flubbed it, my fingers fell off of the finger board and I just completely missed it. And instead of going on I actually stopped and I said, ‘I’d like to start again, please.’ And I’d never done that before and I remember actually after I did that I was so relaxed because I thought that’s it, I’m not going to win it anyway. I’m just going to enjoy and play my best.”
“People sometimes think it’s a competition, you make one mistake you’re out. It’s not about that. Music is not about that. If I were a judge – and I was a judge once at the Kalamazoo competition many years ago, I came back and judged one – what I look for is personality and something personal. Someone with something to say through their music and not just playing the notes. So yeah, I would recommend they just be themselves and let it rip.”
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