My chapter in The Chopin Manuscript features a very talented busker outside the Pantheon in Rome. But Felicia Kaminski is an invention of my imagination. Among the frauds and the phoneys working the streets of Rome hunting tourist euros, there is true talent. Watch the very brief movie above for proof.

This was shot this morning in between showers outside Borromini’s beautiful church of Sant’Agnese in Agone. The busker concerned was playing everything from Bach to Vivaldi and Rimsky-Korsakov. And the amazing thing is he was playing it all on what appeared to be a bog standard street accordion, the kind where you can’t even see the keys or buttons while you’re playing. Here’s the fellow below with a young fan (sorry about the noise but this was shot on my pocket Panasonic FX-100 which is really a still camera). And if you want to see what the church looks like inside view the movie below