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I've seen a few people link to the gene_weingarten story about having Joshua Bell play incognito for 44 minutes in a DC Metro station (use bugmenot if you don't want to register).  I'd also like to point you to the subsequent Weingarten chat, and the complete audio of Bell's performance (requires Flash).

Weingarten's also the guy who wrote the story about the Great Zucchini which i mentioned some time ago.  His normal stuff seems to be jokey, Dave Barry-style columns, but he does seem to write some great stuff when he's serious.  It's fascinating to see the variety of reactions he publishes in his chat; i confess getting a little misty-eyed when i read the story, and again when i listened to Bell's work, and then again when someone mentioned the Vedran Smailović story.