Tuesday, April 10, 2007

My civic duty as a musician

... is to tell you to read this story.

7 comments:

dara said...

The videos are pretty interesting, too. As is Weingarten's chat explaining the whole thing.

Justin S. said...

I think Dan should play violin at L'Enfant Plaza for an hour and see if he can earn more than Joshua Bell.

DSL said...

I was reading the article and stupidly left the magazine in my sister's hotel room. I know I can fine it online but does anyone have the print version? In someone's recycling perhaps? Oh and I did read the chat. I appreciated Weingarten much more here than I do in his "comic" column.

DSL said...

Just be sure that he makes arrangements first or he could be arrested. Although, I would kill for that video footage...

dara said...

Some of the video footage is embedded in the online version of the article.

violindan said...

Justin,

I e-mailed your follow-up idea to Gene Weingarten and just got this one-sentence reply: "Edna would get you within five minutes." She's the shoe-shine lady who thinks musicians are bad for business. I wrote back and said, "If I try it at McPherson Square, can I at least count on a fiver from a Washington Post writer?"

violindan said...

P.S. I think Debby meant she'd kill for the video footage of me being arrested.