During the age of elegance before the Seven-Year War which is referred to in North America as the French and Indian War, Newgate, New York was a small town with a huge talent named Sangis Kernden.  There were less than 150 people in the town.  But the 1000-seat auditorium was often filled with townspeople and those from other dimensions when a new opera or oratorio was presented on the huge stage.  

Unofficially, the first ballet performed in America was one composed by Sangis Kernden and performed by a professional ballet troup from another dimension on the stage of the Bevern Forbren Auditorium on October 1, 1720.  The auditorium was filled for 12 performances.  The ballet which in English is interpreted as “The Happy Sprites” was performed a total of 30 times in 1720 and has been a part of the repertoir of the Newgate Ballet Company since it was founded in 1795.  It only lasts a little over an hour.  But it is a wonderful merging of Baroque music and stylized ballet dancing. 

By 1724, the people of Newgate and in other dimensions considered Kernden one of the finest composers in any dimension.  A delegation transported to England to take in some Handel operas to compare them to the operas of Kernden.  They also transported to Germany to listen to the music of JS Bach and Telemann.  They considered Bach a better composer than Telemann and slightly better than Handel.  But both Handel and Bach were too busy to sail to America to listen to the music of Kernden performed in the Forbren Auditorium or in the Saint James Anglican Church auditorium. 

Both men took time during the Summers to compose music that would be performed in the Fall and Winter.  Three of the delegates met with Handel while the other three met with Bach to see if either of them was willing to listen to the music of a composer that might possibly be a greater talent than they were.  They even presented samples of his music to the composers to see what they thought of the material.  Both men were impressed. 

In London, Handel played an organ sonata on the instrument in Westminster Cathedral during a recital.  The audience was just as impressed as the composer was with the music.  He was tempted to tell the people that it was created by him.  But he at least admitted it had been presented anonymously to him for his consideration.