On May 9,2017 during the morning and afternoon, the Keyboard orchestra class went on a trip to a live performance at St. Paul’s Chapel In New York. Their performance was made up of a combination of some from the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, who were the singers, and the others were from New York Baroque incorporated, who were the instrumentalist. The two Baroque composers whose music was being play Bach and Telemann. We went to the performance for us to exhibit the difference between how live music from an actual instruments sound and feel rather than from just a computer which lacks the true sound/feeling of the instrument. While the performance was not the the first live performance I saw, it was the first time a saw a whole performance actually focused on music from the Baroque time. They used a Harpsichord, which I have never seen before and is the classic baroque keyboard, an old Obo from the baroque period of music with no modern day mechanics added and even an old cello of the baroque period. The performers had no conductor/director. They all had to both communicate and trust each other. You could see how both the singers and instrumentalist were aware of what's going on and interactive with the audience with much eye contact and energy being showed to the audience.
While I did enjoy the performance, frankly, I must say that i need to be more interactive with the performance rather than just sitting and aimlessly listening to it. There were points in the concert where I was sleepy and just dozed off suddenly. I wasn’t sleepy because I did not enjoy the music, but because I was not attentive or interactive with the music. I enjoy listening to classical music, with baroque being one of my favorite, but for me just sitting on the seat is not enough. I realized that, When I started to follow along with the translation of the lyrics from German, I became far more attentive, alert, and awake.
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