Most of us who live in a city know what it

Most of us who live in a city know what it means to spend 30 minutes in the subway 1) ______________ (rush) through corridors and then trying to get into terribly 2) ______________ (crowd) trains. Well, this guy and this morning were 3) ________________ (difference). He stopped at one of the entrances to the station and played six 4) _____________ (beauty) Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. Three minutes after he started, a man noticed him and stopped for a few seconds. A minute later the 5) ___________________ (music) received his first one dollar tip. The person who was most 6) ___________________ (interest) was a 3-year-old boy, who really wanted to listen. His mother didnt let him stay very long, either. In the 45 minutes, 1097 people passed by and only six stopped. The 7) _________________ (violin) collected 32 dollars. When he finished playing, nobody noticed and nobody knew that he was Joshua Bell, one of the best soloists in the world. He was playing a violin worth 3.5 million dollars and had played in a concert two days before where people paid an average of 100 dollars for their seats. The aim of this real-life experiment was twofold. Can we notice beauty in an everyday place and at a rather 8) __________________ (usual) hour? Do we recognize genius in an 9) ___________________ (expect) situation? And the most troubling question of all: if we miss Joshua Bell playing Bach just because we are not in Carnegie Hall, how many other things do we miss? ]