Erica Machida's Question. Michael's question. Jenna's question. Tia's Question. Taylor's question. Angelique's question. Candice's question. Kaelyn's Question. Cierra's question. To what extent does beauty count as opinion, if at all? Chantal's Question. Fiona's question. Ryan's Question. Jami Knowledge Question. Sean's Question. Knowledge Question. Pearls Before Breakfast. HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play. It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour.
In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by. Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job. Each passerby had a quick choice to make, one familiar to commuters in any urban area where the occasional street performer is part of the cityscape: Do you stop and listen? On that Friday in January, those private questions would be answered in an unusually public way. J.T. Bach 's Chaconne for Solo Violin / Itzhak Perlman (Part 1/2) Franz Schubert - Ave Maria For Violin. Joshua Bell- Voice of the violin: Estrellita.