Pearls before Breakfast

I was really surprised after this reading. I always suspected that talented musicians would easily be recognized and appreciated for their music. While I used to live in Florida, every year in Fantasy Fest, many street musicians performed on the sidewalks and earned a lot of money. My family and I would stop amongst a crowd, to listen to them play and donate some cash. I assumed that it would be more or less the same in the Northern states. Especially since Joshua Bell is such a high profiled classic musician.