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Karl Henning

First thing in the morning I am apt to misread the odd thread title; mentally, I am morally prepared for that.

Still, got a big chuckle when I caught myself thinking I had read Wagner's Vanilla.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

jlaurson



Dip Your Ears, No. 133 (Bach Motets)

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/04/dip-your-ears-no-133-bach-motets.html


According to Gardiner, the Motets are "the cantor's 'most perfect... most hypnotic... works'. Certainly perfect for a Sunday. (With audio samples from all six, by different performers.)

Karl Henning

If only Souzay were a composer, here at GMG we could have The Souzay Queue.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

jlaurson



Dip Your Ears, No. 134 (The Lovely Hill)

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/04/dip-your-ears-no-134-lovely-hill.html


Here's chamber music you didn't know you love: From Australian Alfred Hill (1869-1960), whose string quartets...

jlaurson



Crunch Time for Missing Children

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/04/crunch-time-for-missing-children.html

Quote from: jlaurson on April 20, 2013, 10:14:57 AM
The Scoping Report on Missing and Abducted Children 2011 states the following: "Children who go missing are at risk of harm. When a child goes missing, there is something wrong, often quite seriously, in that child's life. The reasons behind missing incidents are varied, where children go missing as a consequence of specific, distinct circumstances. The serious problem of missing and abducted children is a broad, complex and challenging issue. It tends to be poorly defined, lacking in accurate statistics, and is subject to an array of responses at local, national and international levels. At the same time, there is a pressing and urgent concern for improving responses to cases of missing and abducted children. Being missing from home or a place of residence not only entails several inherent risks for children and young people, but is also a cause and consequence of other grave concerns in any child's life."

The FBI cites a 2002 federal study on missing children according to which a heartening 99.8 percent of children reported missing "were located or returned home alive. The remaining 0.2 percent either did not return home or were not found. The study estimated that most of missing children cases involved runaways from juvenile facilities and that only an estimated 0.0068 percent were true kidnappings by a stranger. The primary conclusion of the study was that child abductions perpetrated by strangers rarely occur. However, when they do occur, the results can be tragic."

Tragic, indeed. Which makes the following events all the more dramatic: After a domestic altercation on the evening of April 1st, two underage siblings went missing near Munich...


Geo Dude

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Quote from: jlaurson on April 08, 2013, 07:46:22 AM
...Christoph Biller, the 16th Thomanercantor since Bach, says that God can't be known (hence faith), but he can be felt—in Bach. Bach—and I agree wholehearted, although "without invisible means of support" myself—is next to Godliness. Part of what makes Bach stand apart is that deep, quasi-spiritual sense one gets from his music... a feeling Romain Rolland might have described as "oceanic": A sense of rightness, universal like a mathematical proof...


Bach is Next to Godliness, the Flute Not

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/04/bach-is-next-to-godliness-flute-not_8.html



Thank you for this. :)

Karl Henning

Do titles for a musical work come any more pretentious than "Cosmic Pulses"?
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

jochanaan

Quote from: karlhenning on March 27, 2013, 09:19:29 AM
Can you believe this?


Oh, I believe just about anything from recording companies/marketing executives/the corporate monster that governs us all. :laugh: Next, maybe: "Most Joyous Classical Music", "Most Extreme Classical Music"... :laugh:
Imagination + discipline = creativity

knight66

DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Karl Henning

And you just know he didn't shave in all that period.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Geo Dude

Having seen pictures of Gergiev with a beard I don't think the lack of shaving is problematic.  I do hope he found time for regular bathing, though.


knight66

I think we are fortunate he is involved in music and not soldiering. No one's borders would be inviolate.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

jlaurson

Quote from: knight66 on May 13, 2013, 12:30:33 PM
I think we are fortunate he is involved in music and not soldering. No one's borders would be inviolate.

Mike

For a second I thought: Yes... a lot of loose connections, in that case... (then I saw the "i".)

jlaurson



Whitsun Salzburg: Stravinsky for Dummies

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/05/whitsun-salzburg-stravinsky-for-dummies.html


The topic this year was "OPFER/SACRIFICE", with thematic and linguistic links which had to
include the two most famous 'sacrifices' in music: Bach's
Musical Offering and of course
Le sacre du printemps. It was the latter I went to see—a Stravinsky triple bill of Les
noces ("The Wedding"), Sacre, and L'oiseau de feu ("The Firebird"), with Gergiev
at the helm of the Mariinsky troupe... both orchestra and ballet.

jlaurson


Latest issue of LISTEN MAGAZINE is out, including more CD mini-reviews than usual, and a short appreciation of Colin Davis on record...



Sublime Lark (BIS) ► Quicksilver Brahms (Ondine) ► Bohemian Ducks (Harmonia Mundi) ► Heavenly Interspersed (LSO Live) ► Auspicious Debut (Mariinsky) ►
Plucky Historicism (Naïve) ► Gold Standard Scarlatti (Piano Classics) ► With Re-Mixed Feelings (DG) ► Incidental Requiem (King's College Choir) ► Spellbinding Goerne (Harmonia Mundi) ► Undiscovered (Supraphon) ► Lutoslawski Touchstone
(BR Klassik) ► A Very Classical Mix (Gramola)

Available digitally here... but really one should hold it in one's hand, with the beautiful paper stock and art design... http://www.listenmagazine-digital.com/listenmagazine/

jlaurson

Quote from: jlaurson on May 25, 2013, 01:57:21 AM

Latest issue of LISTEN MAGAZINE is out, including more CD mini-reviews than usual, and a short appreciation of Colin Davis on record...



Sublime Lark (BIS) ► Quicksilver Brahms (Ondine) ► Bohemian Ducks (Harmonia Mundi) ► Heavenly Interspersed (LSO Live) ► Auspicious Debut (Mariinsky) ►
Plucky Historicism (Naïve) ► Gold Standard Scarlatti (Piano Classics) ► With Re-Mixed Feelings (DG) ► Incidental Requiem (King's College Choir) ► Spellbinding Goerne (Harmonia Mundi) ► Undiscovered (Supraphon) ► Lutoslawski Touchstone
(BR Klassik) ► A Very Classical Mix (Gramola)

Available digitally here... but really one should hold it in one's hand, with the beautiful paper stock and art design... http://www.listenmagazine-digital.com/listenmagazine/

One of those reviews, in XL format:

Dip Your Ears, No. 139 (Mozart's Many Requiems)
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/05/dip-your-ears-no-139-mozarts-many.html

Karl Henning

Quote from: Arnold Bax. . . I have no interest whatever in sound for its own sake.

That's fine, as a statement of Bax's personal and musical interests. It isn't as if it were binding upon all artists, of course;  nor does his lack of interest in a line of musical pursuit, signify that the pursuit is anything unworthy. I mean, I have no interest in Bax's music, e.g.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

Aye, in A Certain Someone's sig  ;)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot