Back to Business

Tuesday 9th August 2011


Having spent the last two days boosting the US economy by doing what tourists do best: shopping, sightseeing and eating out, it is now time to get back to business.

After breakfast we had another briefing planning out the day ahead and in particular the concert at Trinity Church, which is right by Ground Zero (an awesome sight, the size of the area and the depth of the crater is altogether breathtaking).  We we headed off across the city at 11.30am after transfering all our instruments from the van to the compartments under the coach.  We arrived at the church at about 12.30pm which gave us plenty of time to unload the coach and get ourselves organised inside the church, which is also a most impressive and beautiful building.  We played a mixed set which included Cornet, Eb Bass and Euphonium solos:


Castel Coch
Bass in the Ballroom (Eb Bass Solo)
America the Beautiful
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose (Cornet Solo)
James Bond Collection
English Folksong Suite
Memory (Euphonium Solo)
Stars and Stripes Forever
God Bless America

It was during the concert that the weather took a spectacular change.  It had been a gloriously sunny day and then the heavens opened which made packing the coach up a slightly damp affair.  Once back at the hotel we shifted all the instruments back onto the van which left a few band members soaked through.

Once we were all dried off it was free time again.  There was the chance to go to a New York Yankies baseball game, otherwise it was a case of entertaining ourselves.