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Violinist Joshua Bell turns train station into concert hall

Clip: 9/30/2014 | 7m 1s

Jeffrey Brown sits down with Bell for an interview.

A superstar of classical music might normally draw a huge crowd, but that wasn’t the case when violin virtuoso Joshua Bell held an impromptu recital in a Metro station in 2007 -- largely ignored by a few thousand commuters. On Tuesday, Bell returned to give a performance at Washington's Union Station, and this time people paid attention. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Bell for an interview.

09/30/2014 | Rating NR

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