A couple of days back, ‘wordrunk’ – a nammashaale ‘aunt,’ sent me a link.
Apparently, Joshua Bell (in my opinion, one of the finest violinists) played to the gallery one busy morning – near a dumpster in a subway station at Washington DC a few years back, arranged by The Washington Post with the teaser: ‘an experiment in context, perception and priorities — as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?‘
The link is here, thanks to ‘wordrunk’ : Pearls before Breakfast. Apparently, this feature article won a Pulitzer in 2008.
May be we should have an evening of choicest western classical music renditions (um, unfortunately at best, it would be restricted to a annotational presentation and playing of the musical pieces on an audio system – say, may be for two hours?). Images of rapturous music of Bach (the father), Beethoven Mozart and Brahms float by… Synesthesia indeed!
Would you say aye to this?
May be we can even follow this up with evenings of Indian Classical Music – both Karnatic and Hindusthani?
namma shaale 
Comments
Aye!!
🙂
Thanks, Deepa!
Ramjee, who is totally immersed these days in the JS Bach’s chaconne renderings of joshua bell, hilary hahn, nathan milstein & jascha heifetz! Wonderful.
ps: And, there’s this annotated mp3 of the chaconne off: http://www.radioopensource.org/bachs-chaconne/ – enjoy.