Alice Tan Ridley knew how to make New York’s subways ring

Orpheus was surely the first of the underground buskers. Carrying only his lyre he walked through Hades, soothing the lost souls, charming Sisyphus in his rock-shoving and Tantalus in his food-cravings, until even Pluto granted his requests. The acoustic may have been dodgy and the listeners preoccupied, but the sheer power of music worked its wonders all the same.