Virtuoso Violinist Plays in DC Metro Station

[dlgood]

I thought alleynyc would find this particularly interesting...

Pearls Before Breakfast
Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.

By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page W10

Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played for spare change, incognito, outside a D.C. Metro station, would anyone notice?

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Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I read this elsewhere and it saddened me. I probably would have listened because I do it all the time in NYC.

by the by, are the DC trains reliable? I'm going to U of Maryland with A in a few weeks and we're thinking of taking the train that stops on campus to DC but we have to know that we can reliably get back, since the dinner thing there is at 7 PM.

Metro

[imarvintpa.livejournal.com]

The trains run every 15 minutes during off-peak hours till 10 or later on Friday and Saturday. They run every 5 minutes or so during rush hour.

IMarv

Re: Metro

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

By trains, which do you mean? There are both AMTRAK/MARC commuter trains and Washington Metro Rail trains that go to College Park.

The AMTRAK/MARC are somewhat noted for not always being reliable.

The Metro Rail, on the other hand, is reasonably reliable. As Marv below notes, trains will run about every 15 minutes in off-peak hours -- roughly until midnight on a week night.

Check out the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (http://www.wmata.com) webpage for details.

Note: The College Park rail station is about a mile from Campus. There are shuttle buses to the student union - otherwise, give yourself 15 minutes to walk.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

thanks for the info.