Pearls Before Breakfast

Washington Post
What an absolutely fabulous story. I expected precisely the outcome you obtained, but the writing and analysis of the situation was great, and I think Joshua Bell is probably as fine a human as he clearly is a musician - and I'll bet many of those people did appreciate the music, if not recognize or compensate the musician. I don't live there now, but when I was riding the Metro, busker exhaustion set in after about the first week. I simply didn't budget to pay every one I ran across, no matter how talented they may have been. Sad, but true.