But generally it was a very joyous way to be together through music. Not always, sometimes my mother said, come on, bring down your violin and, let everyone hear what you’ve been practicing. So we’d had to play together or take turns, getting up. So it’s usually around the holidays when extended family would come cousins and things from Toronto and other places, all my cousins played instruments. Joshua: We used to call it a music house in the 19th century, there was a salon or musical soiree, but we call it a music house. I can remember the word you used, but like some sort of like family musical time. Lowell: like your family would come together and everyone sorta played an instrument. So there was never a lot of pressure on me to become a musician, but they wanted me to have music in my life, I guess So I grew up in a musical family, but not a family of hardcore music professionals. And yeah, I was lucky to start playing the violin very early. Like we better get them an instrument, a real instrument right away and got me a 16th size violin at the age of four. Joshua: my parents, I think, took that as a clue. Lowell: when Joshua was four he’s young, rubber bands around the knobs on his dresser, drawers and experimented with the different pitches they’d make when stretched. So I’m really from Indiana.Īnd I grew up in a musical household. I was born the year that they arrived in Indiana. Have the largest music school in the country and lots of concerts and cultural life. But yeah, they were new Yorkers and didn’t know what to expect in middle America.Īnd they were music lovers as well and were pleasantly surprised when they arrived in Bloomington and it happens to. Joshua: They moved there because my father actually took a job at the Kinsey Institute for sex research of all places and also professor at Indiana university.
Lowell: I was reading about you and your mother was a therapist and your father was a psychologist and they’re both new Yorkers and they moved to Bloomington Indiana and started a farm where you were born.Ĭan you tell me a little bit about some of your earliest memories? This is my conversation with Joshua Bell. There’s a lot more achievements, but it’s just too many to list. The red violin won a Grammy, received the Avery Fisher prize and is performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world. He debuted with the Philadelphia orchestra at 14 and at 17 made his first appearance at Carnegie hall. His name is Joshua Bell, and he’s the definition of a prodigy. This episode is with someone very special that I’ve been trying to book for months and it finally worked out. Last week, I said, this episode would be on gaming, but some things came up and I had to push it back. My name is Lowell Brillante and this is prodigy The average person won’t know the difference between very good and brilliant.Įspecially when it’s a song you’ve never heard from someone you don’t know when you’ve got somewhere to be I’m opening with it because this little experiment is probably how, Joshua Bell and it shouldn’t be I’m not opening with this because it’s some grand reflection on humanity. The experiment was orchestrated by journalists, gene Weingarten, who would go on to win a Pulitzer prize for the article he wrote on it.
It was simply to see if music was standing apart from context and it didn’t over the course of 43 minutes. He wasn’t playing catchy songs or asking for attention. You didn’t know, and you wouldn’t be alone more than a thousand people walked past him that day. You’d probably stop and appreciate the performance that just the night before would have cost you hundreds of dollars.
Would you feel it different if you knew that busker was one of the world’s greatest violinists playing on a $4 million Stradivarius? If you did this, just get to the train and get this day over with. Anyway, they might do better if they played something catchy like Taylor Swift. God, it’s busker, don’t make eye contact and some classical song. As you walk into the Metro station, you hear the sounds of a violin. So you’re looking forward to the weekend. You probably tired, stressed and late then again, it’s Friday.
VO: It’s a cold day in January and you’re on your way to work. *Transcription is done automatically so may contain errors
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