First, felt sorry about the ignorance and under-appreciation the violinist experienced at the subway.
Agree with the point Majid put in the post below, the importance to select the 'scene'.
Yet I hope to point out,
before switching the 'scene', people need to make some things right.
For that, don't use Joshua's method for being heard/discovered. Some bad mistakes there to be corrected.
1) Just standing there and doing your thing, is not enough;
2) Some marketing/sales skills need to be deployed. eg. studying the appropriateness of the venue; matching the audience profile;
- For the venue, is it good for bringing out the sound quality for being felt/heard? or the opposite? If the latter, what can be done to improve?
- Once the audience profile is fixed, study the mode, mood, timing, and orientation of people...
3) Design the presentation.
Actually, the whole event needs to be designed and executed like a marketing/sales campaign...
Being naturally more a technical nerd on supply chain, than a marketing/sales person, I am still learning and wanting to find a better way to show the possibility and value of better supply chain/operations.
For the talented people, some proactive self-sculpture is very necessary to make the talent more observed/appreciated as it deserves, also so the talent can be more used to help others.
P.S. For those people who might want to have a good appreciation of Joshua's violin performance. Here is a nice clip.
Know Your Worth !!
MAJID ABBARA@Linkedin
A violinist played for 45 minutes in the New York subway. A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist raised about $30 in tips.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. In that subway, Joshua played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.
Two days before he played in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out a Boston theatre, and the seats averaged about $100.
The experiment proved that the extraordinary in an ordinary environment does not shine and is so often overlooked and undervalued.
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