It was a cold January morning. A man sat at a subway station in Washington DC and started to play the violin. When the musician played, thousands of people went through the station, but most of them didn't stop.
A few minutes went by and a middle-aged man noticed there was a musician playing music. He slowed down and stopped for a few seconds and then he walked away hurriedly. Four minutes after he played the violin, the violinist received his first tip. A woman threw the money in the violin case without stopping and continued to walk.
In the musician's 45-minute performance, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk. He collected $32 in all. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it.
No one knew the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. Two days before his playing at the subway station, the tickets for Joshua Bell's performance were sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats each cost 100 dollars.
Joshua Bell's playing in the subway station was a social experiment. It asks questions: in a common environment at a wrong hour, do we enjoy beauty? Do we stop to make a response(反应)? If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music, how many things are we missing? So don't miss the wonderful moment in life!
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