Listening Activity: How does the music change when we mute individual players with a remote control? @carnegiehall
Listening Activity: How does the music change when we mute individual players with a remote control?  @carnegiehall
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Members of Ensemble Connect present an Interactive Performance for students at PS 21 Q. The program explores how musicians work together as a team when performing different pieces of music. In this clip, audience members are invited to use a “remote control” to mute and un-mute instruments to better hear each musician’s role in the ensemble in Mambo from Bernstein’s West Side Story.

This performance was filmed on May 23, 2025, at PS 21 The Edward Hart School in Flushing, Queens.

Marty Tung, Bassoon
Ryan Dresen, Horn
Chelsea Wang, Piano
Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Violin
Ramón Carrero-Martínez, Viola


Mambo
By Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Universal PolyGram Int. Publishing, Inc. obo Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Co. (ASCAP)

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