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[Karl Henning]

And, a merry Christmas to me.

[Karl Henning]

At some point during the blur of Christmas preparation, I had the happy thought of arranging Moonrise for flute choir . . . though I thought right away that logistically, considering this section and that section, what had been a quintet would wind up a flute choir in six parts (picc, 2 fl, 2 a fl, b fl).


I do think it works well enough, it is almost as if I had composed it for that ensemble.

[Karl Henning]

Angular Whimsies with two additional players . . . I like it, I am sure this is the path . . . .

[Brahmsian]

First listen to:

Henning
Moonrise, Op.84a
for flute choir in six parts

*pounds the table!*  What a fantastic work, Karl.  Love it, it is beautiful. 

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Ray!

[Karl Henning]

Angular Whimsies with two additional players . . . I like it, I am sure this is the path . . . .

And I've made my way to m.174;  not done with the "expansion," but probably done for the day.

[Karl Henning]

Now up to the double-bar at the Vivo assai (m.283) . . . which is to say, only the home stretch remaining, which I should really "make count," as it were . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Huzzah, I think she's done!

[Karl Henning]

Wow!  E-mail has just come in from Nana Tchikhinashvili in the Netherlands, who had her choir sing my Magnificat back when . . . she's bringing it back into her choir's repertory for concerts this spring, and for an event in Rome in October.  Europe has not forgotten Henningmusick!

[Karl Henning]

All right, I think I must consider it done:

[Karl Henning]

And the mp3 is "at large"

[Cato]

Huzzah, I think she's done!

Wow!  E-mail has just come in from Nana Tchikhinashvili in the Netherlands, who had her choir sing my Magnificat back when . . . she's bringing it back into her choir's repertory for concerts this spring, and for an event in Rome in October.  Europe has not forgotten Henningmusick!

Karl's Wheel of Fortune is raising him upward!  It is high time!

I finished listening to the MIDI Moonrise and read through the score for Angular Whimsies:  kaleidoscopes of tones measured in karats!

Check out Angular Whimsies bars 26-27 and 54-57 where the piano "frames" the vibraphone and the bass clarinet: an exquisite idea among many other similar ones!!

[Karl Henning]

Well, I have submitted the Whimsies! Let the games begin!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Cato!

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting the original version of the Whimsies . . . I don't know if this be crazy, but I think it works fine as a (quite demanding, of course) duet;  but I also don't think the additional instruments for the quartet version at all "superfluous."

[Brahmsian]

Revisiting the original version of the Whimsies . . . I don't know if this be crazy, but I think it works fine as a (quite demanding, of course) duet;  but I also don't think the additional instruments for the quartet version at all "superfluous."

First listen to:

Henning
Angular Whimsies (Heavy Paint Manipulation), Op. 100a

Another fantastic work, Karl!  Is that a clarinet or bass clarinet?  Marvelous!! 

[Karl Henning]

Bass clarinet . . . probably the busiest I've yet managed to keep one . . . .

[Karl Henning]

And thanks, many thanks, Ray! 

[Brahmsian]

Bass clarinet . . . probably the busiest I've yet managed to keep one . . . .

Excellent!  Love the bass clarinet (probably my favourite non-stringed instrument).  It works so wonderfully in this quartet! 

[Karl Henning]

And you know, I may wind up setting some more Whitman . . . .