This was a pleasing thing to walk in on. The now-unnamed public space at 550 Madison Avenue was chosen by a religious folk-type band as a place to rehearse its songs on Thursday night. I only caught the end of one song and all of the one heard below. At the end of song the band leader makes a comment about how one of the bandmembers brought his ventriloquism skills to the song. I guess he was saying that the dude didn’t sing. The public space is cavernous, and acoustically this ensemble seemed a good fit. I don’t know who they were but here is how they sounded.
The space is no longer called the Sony Plaza because Sony no longer occupies the building. It appears that nobody is using the office space. It had been expected that the old offices would be converted into condos but that does not seem to be happening.
