One of the things that I really love is street musicians that offer their creativity at an unexpected moment... they are able to change my mood in every condition. Especially the ones in subway, when my mind is plenty of thoughts, plans and concern, the one who enter suddenly from the door is enough to liberate me from these pointless thoughts. The good part is that you can never know in which station they can appear and illuminate your thoughts! And when they come, I totally stop everything, appreciate fews moments they offer to me and I try to pay them something symbolic for their performance.
In Milan, metro musicians have generally the same tactic: they play for 1 1/2 stops and collect money before arriving to the 2nd stop. However today, it happened something strange: I arrived to Lambrate station and I sat down between 2 musicians while I was waiting the metro. One of them started speaking with me. He was a nice Romanian musician from Bucharest who studied music & theater during university. When he discovered that I am Turkish, he promised me to play a Turkish song in metro:) So, the metro came, people entered and the musician started playing as usual, strangely he played during 2 stops and start collecting money after the 2nd stations and then after he sat down in front of me and played the Turkish melody till Centrale... He played because perhaps he liked me, perhaps I was the only one who payed to him... whatever the reason, this sunday offered me a spontaneous gift... a concert for 4 stops!
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