January 12, 2007 –
Concert violinist Joshua Bell, played for free, for 45 minutes, on a violin worth 3.5 million dollars at a subway station in a DC Metro station on this date.
Of the 1,097 people who passed by Bell, only seven stopped to listen him play, including a 3-year old boy, and only one person recognized him. The experiment was initiated by The Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten and won him a Pulitzer Prize for the article he wrote about the event.
The Haus of Dcaligari 