Joshua Bell brings music to Union Station once again

October 01, 2014

Remember this 2007 story that got everyone talking (albeit briefly) about classical music? Violinist Joshua Bell played incognito at a Metro station in Washington, D.C., during rush hour, in an "experiment" designed by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten:

Commuters brushed past one of the great musicians of our time — he was almost universally ignored — and Weingarten's WaPo story won a Pulitzer Prize.

On Tuesday this week, Joshua Bell got a do-over of sorts, playing a well-publicized event in the main hall of Washington, D.C.'s Union Station … and several thousand folks showed up. There are more details here from PBS's News Hour.

Said Bell to the crowd: "This is more like it!"