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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PulpMind
So what if it was a world famous musician playing on a 3.5 million dollar violin? They had him playing in a massive, noisy train station with horrible acoustics. The fact that he is one of the most talented musicians in the world is moot because he wasn't playing in an environment where that could be appreciated. Not to mention... classical. I love it. You love it. There's nothing about it that grabs the average person.
I've never been to that train station, but in train stations all over the world I've witnessed a higher degree of attention paid to artists. However, these artists are conveying an artform that can be appreciated in that sort of environment. Like break dancers. Or comedic magicians. Or drummers using garbage bins.
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MTA NYC disagrees with you as they have a program just for bringing quality music above the buskers and breakdancers.
MTA - Arts for Transit | MUNY Bios and Samples
take a listen to those with streaming samples, I don't hear any garbage bin drummers or break dancers.
I've heard, jazz, opera, r&b, sitar, chinese instruments I cannot name, latin american pipe music to name a few... there's plenty of diversity. You just have to pay attention.
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