When Joshua Bell came to Centennial Hall two weeks ago, he played to a sold-out house. The audience watched with bated breath as the world’s preeminent violinist turned over complex Vivaldi ...

But this was no ordinary subway stop busker. Joshua Bell, one of the world’s greatest violinists, had been sent to the station for a Washington Post social experiment.

Many more listeners liked the sounds they heard on yesterday's show, specifically the story with violinist Joshua Bell when he played in the Washington, D.C. subway.

If you bought a ticket to violinist Bell and pianist Daniil Trifonov’s recital at Symphony Hall on Tuesday evening, you got exactly what you paid for.