The Man with the Violin - a podcast by Joanne Avery

 

The Man with the Violin, written by Kathy Stinson & illustrated by Dusan Petricic (2013) Adapted for the podcast by Joanne Avery (2019).  This story recaps the experiment done by world-famous violinist Joshua Bell with The Washington Post on 1/12/2007.  Bell was dressed as an ordinary street musician playing his Stradivarius violin in the lobby of a Washington, D. C. train station.  After playing 43 minutes he only observed a few people stopping to listen, and he only had $32.17 laying in his violin case-yet people usually pay hundreds for a ticket to hear him in a concert hall.  The story inspires all to stop, look, and listen to the beauty and miracles in our daily lives, and to respect the imagination and curiosity of our children in their quest toward their aspirations.

This podcast is dedicated to music teachers everywhere and to my mother, Beatrice Gilbride, a concert violinist, and Josh Z., a former student of mine, who could make the violin ‘sing’ from the time he was 3 years old!

Resources:

Washington Post Subway experiment, Joshua Bell, 2007

www.itunes.com/voice of the violin, Joshua Bell

www.youtube.com/Vocalise, Op.34 No.14, Joshua Bell & Michael Stern Orchestra 

www.youtube.com/ Am I Wrong by Nico & Vinz, Cover by Damien Escobar, Black Star Elephant, 2014.

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