An Evening of Changing Music
The
lights dimmed and the sinister-looking Notation family took their places on the
stage wearing their black skin-tight acrobatic suits. The five musicians then
put on their upper-face masks. As the evening progressed, a variety of styles
was played constantly changing between rock music, blues melodies, acoustic
folk and lighter jazz numbers and even the vocal accompaniment differed as each
singer took their turn, sometimes by themselves and at others in a unified
chorus.
While
each number received applause, the end of the evening received its most
rewarding reaction, but the cheers and clapping were replaced with gasps when
the five band members removed their masks. They had all moved around the stage
and had been playing different instruments and nobody had noticed. Clearly the
audience had slowly began to realise that throughout the evening the Musical
Chairs had really been playing a huge and very
clever trick.