A lone double bass player dressed in a full tuxedo stood motionless in a busy Spanish plaza. Like a mannequin, he looked almost frozen in time, his string instrument propped in his hands, his hat lying bottom facing up on the cobblestones. Then a youthful girl dropped a coin into his hat, and that triggered something amazing.
The whole episode was caught on video in Sant Roc plaza, in the city of Sabadell, Spain. Once set into motion after the girl dropped her coin, the musician began playing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” yet that was just the beginning; from out of nowhere, a woman with a second instrument, a cello, joined the lone bass player and began playing. And in perfect unison, their melody filled the square. Yet it didn’t stop there.
