Jochanaan's Recital

[Bogey]

Small world:

So, I am at work today and I mention to a colleague your upcoming concert John.  I mention the composers and that one of them is Karl Henning from Boston.  This was the dialogue that followed:

My colleague's response: "Oh Henning, I am familiar with his work."
Me: "Really?"
My colleague: "Yes, my husband or others used some of his compositions at CU (University of Colordao) for their 'modern' composer portion of a class in the music department."
Me: (Using DavidW lingo) "Coolness." 

[karlhenning]

(* speechless *)

[jochanaan]

Then I'm not going!

That's all right; I don't think I'm your type.

[Bogey]

T minus 90 and counting. 

[karlhenning]

Woo-hoo! 

[Bogey]

Folks, I believe I just had the pleasure of seeing live the "John Coltrane" of modern classical music. In short, John can just flat out blow. 

John opened up, without announcement, with Karl's composition using the English Horn..............................repair to the church roof begins on Monday morning.  Services tomorrow will be held in the court yard.  After Karl's piece I was amazed that John had anything left, but he was in fact just warming up.  The other highlight of the show, for me personally, was the Bennett piece that John played with an incredibly talented piano player (sorry, did not catch her name).  Powerful does not begin to describe their performance together.  I hope the recording does their playing justice.  And on a side note, John had a nice encore waiting in the wings following his ovation: Pan from Britten's Six Metamorphoses After Ovid....it was a beauty.

A wonderful evening of wonderful music.  Thank you John.  It was a pleasure meeting you and seeing you perform. 

[uffeviking]

Thank you for the enthusiastic review of a roof-raising concert by our very own Jochanaan, a GMG member I never met personally yet know him to be a very sensitive and caring human being.  We might have a chance to listen to the concert, I hope, but nothing compares with being right there in person.

[karlhenning]

Splendid, Bill, splendid! Bravo, John, bravo! 

[jochanaan]

*whew* Thanks, Bogey!  Apparently nobody but I noticed all the flubs. But for some reason, they liked me--they really LIKED me!

As soon as the recording artist gets the goods to me, I'll post a few clips--if I can figure out how.

[karlhenning]

I'm sure there are very musical reasons why they REALLY liked you, John! Bravo ancora!

[jochanaan]

...with an incredibly talented piano player (sorry, did not catch her name)...

She is Keiko Haneda, a fine pianist and piano teacher from Boulder.

[BachQ]

Keiko and I go way back ........

[zamyrabyrd]

As soon as the recording artist gets the goods to me, I'll post a few clips--if I can figure out how.

PULEEZE!!!

[greg]

Keiko

i love that name....

As soon as the recording artist gets the goods to me, I'll post a few clips--if I can figure out how.

can't wait 

[uffeviking]

Will there be a chance to buy the recording? PLEASE, PURTY PLEASE? 

[Greta]

Richard Rodney Bennett is an Englishman, born in 1936.  The Sonata I'm doing was written in 1961 and is challengingly atonal, probably twelve-tone serial although I haven't been able to analyze it.  (I'm still just trying to get all the notes!)

Eugene Hartzell was born in Cincinnati in 1932 but spent most of his adult life in Vienna, where he died in 2000.  Workpoints 4, for flute and oboe, is one of a series of 10 duets for various wind instruments; it's very atmospheric, a little like some of Varèse's pieces.

Karl Henning you know from here.

I'm also doing a set of unaccompanied oboe pieces by Antal Doráti, the conductor.

Doráti, very interesting! What type/style of pieces are those?

And which Henning did you play?

Wish I could have seen that, do post a recording if you're able!

[jochanaan]

Doráti, very interesting! What type/style of pieces are those?

Modernistic but not atonal, and very very challenging.  They were written for Heinz Holliger.

And which Henning did you play?

Studies in Impermanence, arranged for solo English horn.

Wish I could have seen that, do post a recording if you're able!

As soon as I get it from the guy who recorded it for me.

[jochanaan]

Just a note that I haven't forgotten my promise to post sound clips.  The recording artist ran into an unexpected snag: the music-only portions of the recital (aside from spoken program notes and pauses to catch breath) was 40 seconds too long for a single CD! So he's redoing the recording by including my program notes etc.  I expect it in the next few days...

[karlhenning]

Looking forward to it, jochanaan!

[BachQ]

I expect it in the next few days...

We're pacing the floors in anticipation .......... fingernails bitten to a pulp ......... fretting beyond the point of consolation.........