Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!

[Cato]

There is your answer!  I would follow that direction!

Of course, like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz says: "Some people go both ways!"   0:)

You could follow your instinctive "other direction" by adding a voice AND continue with your "Strict imitation."

In music (practically) all things are possible!  Whether they should be is the decision of the composer's unconscious ear.

[Karl Henning]

I'm walking that fine line ... I know what Luke means, in writing stuff one actively dislikes. I'm trying to channel aright, aforetime.

[Karl Henning]

Well, Henningmusick just may happen in November, after all. Possibly in Atlanta. Possibly in So. Carolina.

[Karl Henning]

Well, as I've noted off-line to Cato, I've been working on the Kyrie at last to-day.

I have sketches strewn here and about, which I've scribbled now and again over an improbably long time. I am at last juggling it all together in Sibelius, and it sound much, much better than I feel that I have any right to expect.

Of course, now the pressure is on to carry the whole piece out in a way to fulfill this promise . . . .

[TheGSMoeller]

Well, Henningmusick just may happen in November, after all. Possibly in Atlanta. Possibly in So. Carolina.

I'll be at both for sure. I'm still new to the ATL area but will assist you with whatever is needed.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Greg!

Separately, I think I've finished the Kyrie.  I wound up fussing over the ending a bit (at first, I got to the open fifths, but I hadn't re-established D as the 'key').

As is . . . I am going to sleep on it, and look at it hard to-morrow.

[Karl Henning]

Enormously pleased, simply because it's the first double-bar I've worked my way to in quite some time.

[Karl Henning]

I made two minor changes towards the end; I just felt there was too much stop-&-start going on, so I shortened a couple of the rests serving as written-in pauses.

[Karl Henning]

Morally prepared to pronounce the Kyrie done; c'est-à-dire, I've sent it off to Paul.

Now, to wrap up the Cello Sonatina. It's kind of convenient, actually, to have these small-scale works to wrap up, by way of getting back into the groove (take him away for re-grooving…)

[Karl Henning]

Paul's response is as yet curiously incomplete: Still looking at the Kyrie. Very nice so far.

How far it continues to be nice, is anyone's guess ; )

[Karl Henning]

I am hitting the Cello Sonatina to-night. The world may not be ready, but I am.

[Karl Henning]

(* shoos the crickets *)

[Karl Henning]

Not a ton of work on the Cello Sonatina last night, but good work. The hunt is afoot.

And, for those who do not read score, but may be curious what the Kyrie is up to . . . I have tried to attach a MIDI file, but when I try to post the message, I get routed to "Start a New Topic."

[Karl Henning]

In the immediate pipeline (which I think it not overweaning of me to speak of, having just wrapped up the Kyrie) is tying up and putting a bow on the Cello Sonatina, which I feel I have now got by the short hairs; and then a wind piece by request of mine exquisite Maria, who requested something broad and spacious after the spirit of Out in the Sun (really one of my hits, I should think).  I am thinking (bottom to top) tuba, bass tn, two tenor tns (I do dig that foundation, so to speak), four horns, bass clarinet, English horn, three oboes and sopranino clarinet. The Artist's Studio (There's a Wide World in There).

[Karl Henning]

Maybe between the Sonatina and the big wind piece, I may write up the last of the clarinet duos (some little time I decided to keep it to a set of five).  Come to think of it, I should get the most of them translated from MS. to Sibelius this summer.

[Karl Henning]

Breathtaking lot of work I did on the Cello Sonatina yesterday. Watch This Space.

[Karl Henning]

The piece is pretty much finished, barring (a) any further detail which I decide (and/or feel compelled) to add over the coming week, and (b) the Sibelius trouble I am having, in getting the tempo indications to show on the piano's treble staff, too.

With no further ado, this is the current stateof the Cello Sonatina [file deleted to conserve space]

[madaboutmahler]

Looks great, Karl. When ready, with your permission, I'd love to have a further look at the cello part and perhaps play it.

[Lisztianwagner]

Looks great, Karl. When ready, with your permission, I'd love to have a further look at the cello part and perhaps play it.

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