Bob CollinsThe BBC reports today that a violinist has broken the record for the fastest playing of Flight of the Bumblebee. And he played it at “concert level.” Of course, the amazing fact in this news is that there actually was already a record for the fastest playing of Flight of the Bumblebee.
Music at the speed of light
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Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscutBob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.