Jake Pegg
Fair Trade Music
Since this Washington Post story came up again recently at a FTM core group meeting, I decided to look it up to post here. I'd read this article, but hadn't seen the video.
I'm ashamed to say I hadn't seen or heard him play before this. Damn, it's enough to make me forget the years I was force-fed music of this vintage and start liking erudite music again. In fact, i'm almost inspired enough to take the tuba out to the corner of 82nd and powell and see how I do.
The upshot: One of the world's greatest violinists, playing some of the greatest (erudite, Western European) music ever written on an instrument valued at about $3 million, went largely unnoticed. He made $59.
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