Thursday, April 26, 2007

The British are Coming!

After the Joshua Bell experiment, many people commented on how unmusical and uncultured American society had become while bemoaning classical music's future. But even with all the pixels spilled in outrage, I never saw anyone wonder if America was more unmusical than any other Western nation. The Independent evidently decided to test that theory and replicated the experiment with Tasmin Little outside Waterloo Station. Any guesses as to the outcome (and no cheating!)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My guess? Exactly the same result.

And ha HA! I see I am right.

Andrew said...

Of course you are right. As Harry Partch was told early on in his career, "It is curious, your desire to go to England. Music students never go to England. Germany and Italy are the musical countries, whereas England and America are not musical."

*sigh*