Playing A $3 Million Violin On The Metro

We aren't conditioned to believe in magic, so we miss it when we see it.

It was a cold January morning in Washington DC, and playing softly at a random Metro Station was a young man with a violin. He was performing the work Johann Sabastian Bach, and played both on and off the Metro for about an hour. During that time, he encountered thousands of people, most of them on their way to work.

At times people would stop and listen…