In all honesty, the "up front" experience didn't feel all that different compared to listening on some headphones or from a speaker. But I do think being in front of the musicians is still very beneficial. There are somethings you wouldn't quite understand (or just miss out on the overall experience on) if you were to just listen on headphones or speakers. Things like the extremely quick tuning between songs would sound like a bunch of random noise to a headphone or speaker listener. Also, I'm sure a speaker or headphone listener would be unaware that there weren't any composers for the musicians. Other than those examples, there really wasn't much else that really grabbed my attention and made the listening experience much different. If anything I dozed off more in the up front experience, than listening to it through a device.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
BLOG Questions: Response (NY Trip)
On Monday, May 8th, 2017 the St. Benedict's keyboard orchestra class took a trip to St. Paul's Chapel in New York. Upon arrival, we witnessed and group of musicians who go by "New York Baroque Inc.". They performed pieces from Telemann (1681-1767) , Bach (1685-1750) as well as Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. For their first and second pieces, they performed two songs by Telemann (Gradius Ad Parnassum and Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin). For their third and fourth pieces, they performed two more songs but this time by Bach (Jesus Christus, unser Heiland and Sehet! Wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem). For their fifth and final piece, they performed Jimmy Page's and Robert Plant's Stairway to Heaven.
In all honesty, the "up front" experience didn't feel all that different compared to listening on some headphones or from a speaker. But I do think being in front of the musicians is still very beneficial. There are somethings you wouldn't quite understand (or just miss out on the overall experience on) if you were to just listen on headphones or speakers. Things like the extremely quick tuning between songs would sound like a bunch of random noise to a headphone or speaker listener. Also, I'm sure a speaker or headphone listener would be unaware that there weren't any composers for the musicians. Other than those examples, there really wasn't much else that really grabbed my attention and made the listening experience much different. If anything I dozed off more in the up front experience, than listening to it through a device.
In all honesty, the "up front" experience didn't feel all that different compared to listening on some headphones or from a speaker. But I do think being in front of the musicians is still very beneficial. There are somethings you wouldn't quite understand (or just miss out on the overall experience on) if you were to just listen on headphones or speakers. Things like the extremely quick tuning between songs would sound like a bunch of random noise to a headphone or speaker listener. Also, I'm sure a speaker or headphone listener would be unaware that there weren't any composers for the musicians. Other than those examples, there really wasn't much else that really grabbed my attention and made the listening experience much different. If anything I dozed off more in the up front experience, than listening to it through a device.
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