<html><head><title>Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com</title><style>a { color:#0C4790; }a:link { color:#0C4790; }a:visited { color:#0C4790; }a:active { color:#CC0000; }a:hover { color:#CC0000; }#header { padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px solid #CCC;margin-bottom:5px; }#footer { font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt; }#footer #fine-print { padding-top:10px;color:#000;font-size:9pt;font-weight:bold; }#sender { color:#000;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:12pt; }#message { padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt; }#message b { font-family:arial,sans-serif; }h1#headline { margin:0;padding:0;font-size:20px;font-family:arial,sans-serif; }#byline em { font-style:italic; }#blurb { }.dotted-spacer { padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dotted #CCC;margin-bottom:10px; }#most-emailed { padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt; }#most-emailed-list { padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:8px; }.red { color:#C00; }</style></head><body><div style="width:520px;"><div id="header"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com?referrer=emailarticle"><img src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/emailafriend/wpLogo_170x27.gif" border="0" width="170" height="27"/></a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/emailafriend?contentId=AR2007040401721&sent=no&referrer=emailarticle"><img src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/emailafriend/emailLogo_75x27.gif" border="0" width="75" height="27"/></a></div><div style="padding-left:10px;"><div id="sender"><b>This page was sent to you by:</b> msolomon@moscow.com</div><div id="message"><b>Message from sender:</b> This is an amazing "what if" story: what if one of the world's best violinists, Joshua Bell, was playing anonymously in a DC Metro station: would anyone notice the music?
Mark</div><h1 id="headline"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html?referrer=emailarticle">Pearls Before Breakfast</a><br/></h1><div id="blurb">Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?</div></div><div class="dotted-spacer"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center"><tr><td><img src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/img/ad_label_leftjust.gif" border="0" width="100" height="13"/></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.email/emailafriend;ad=bb;kw=emailafriend;ord=1176010179013?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.email/emailafriend;ad=bb;kw=emailafriend;ord=1176010179013?" border="0"></a></td></tr></table><br/><div class="dotted-spacer"></div><div id="footer">Do you love D.C.? Get the insider's guide to where to stay, what to do and where to eat. Go to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/cityguide/index.html?referrer=emailarticle">www.washingtonpost.com/cityguide</a> for your guide to D.C. now.<div id="fine-print">© 2007 The Washington Post Company | <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/interact/longterm/talk/members.htm?referrer=emailarticle">Privacy Policy</a></div></div></div></body></html>