This...

[averygoodun42]

This makes me... so sad. I think it's particularly affecting because it relates so very closely to the wtf dream I had last night.

What hope does a schmo like me have? I'm no virtuoso.

Bah.

Comments

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

I think the point they're making is actually different. There's a story further down where a curator of an art gallery talks about what would happen if he took an expensive painting down and hung it in the local cafe; nobody would notice it. But the reverse is also true. You don't have to think you're a virtuoso or a great artist; what matters is that somebody else decides you are and puts you in that gallery or that concert hall. Joshua Bell only knows he's really good because he's been told that repeatedly. If he'd been a street busker all his life he would never have been noticed - despite being just as good a player. But would that make him a less good player? No.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Totally this. People tend to see or hear what they expect to see or hear; no one expects a virtuoso to be busking, so they walk on by.

[countrymouse1.livejournal.com]

I remember reading of this when he first did it. I don't know if I would have rushed by (hope not) but I KNOW that my son (who is blind, but who has been so gifted with both love of and ability to produce beautiful music) would not have LET me rush by without stopping to soak up some of that beauty.

Which makes me think--maybe that's another of the reasons God had in mind with my son--He gave him to me to make me slow down, and hear and see the beauty in the earth.

Thank you for sharing an article that reminds me to do that more often.