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music by kids. they were AWFUL (and everybody applauded like
they never heard anything so great). bolstering self-esteem for its
own sake is detrimental. to the music, to the kids. there USED to
be really very good high school orchestras - no more. Joshua Bell
once, on a bet, played his strad in a DC railroad station (L'Enfant
Plaza) acting like a street musician. "In the three-quarters of an
hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were
doing to hang around and take in the performance, at least for a
minute. Twenty-seven gave money, most of them on the run -- for a
total of $32 and change. That leaves the 1,070 people who hurried
by, oblivious, many only three feet away, few even turning to
look."
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