Our keyboard orchestra class took a trip to St. Paul's Chapel in New York on Monday may 8th. During arrival, we watched a group of musicians who go by "New York Baroque Inc.". They performed pieces from different composers such as Telemann (1681-1767) , Bach (1685-1750) as well as Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. They performed two songs by Telemann (Gradus Ad Parnassum and Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin). St. Paul chapel was one of the oldest places being used in New York usually all the old buildings has been vacated. They also looked at each other when they were about to sing or play a different piece to make sure that they were all ready.
For certain parts different instruments were leading the group in the piece. We know this by them switching positions one would be at the end and then they would be in the middle when it was their time to play a song. There were various adjustments made so that we as watchers knew that it was a different instrument or different piece of music being played. First being they would move. Second being they would look at each other to make sure everyone was ready to play. Thirdly they would take time to tune their instruments before moving onto the next song, which sounded like they were making mistakes but it was apart of the plan so they could play together as a group. I really enjoyed the orchestra that was playing and it broaden my view in different things.
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