Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

Karl Henning · November 02, 2011, 05:43:11 AM

Quote from: karlhenning on November 01, 2011, 11:50:41 AM
. . . I had to re-boot my computer (odd printing issues lately) . . . will try The Lamb again right away.

Have just now succeeded at last in printing The Lamb. Will take a yet closer look later, but immediate comment:

If the work was at all labored, the result is charming and apparently efortless — so it was labor well invested. I know exactly what you mean, about feeling ready to be about something edgier : ) Still, this is a lovely occasional piece, and I like it much better than another setting of the Blake which I read in a choir a few years back.

Well done! Will dig into it some more later.

Karl Henning · November 17, 2011, 11:15:06 AM

After this breathing space, how do you feel about The Lamb, Luke? I like it.

J.Z. Herrenberg · November 27, 2011, 02:43:11 PM

28 November - many happy reurns, Luke!

Karl Henning · November 27, 2011, 04:01:26 PM

Yo, happy birthday, dude!

Karl Henning · November 28, 2011, 03:38:18 AM

Let the birthday cake begin . . . .

rappy · November 28, 2011, 04:54:07 AM

Happy birthday also from me, Luke!!

Karl Henning · November 30, 2011, 05:08:21 AM

Let's refresh the tablecloth and serve some of the leftover cake . . . with some nice hot Oolong, of course.

Karl Henning · December 19, 2011, 10:42:40 AM

TTT

Cato · December 20, 2011, 06:41:11 AM

Hello Luke!

Your fans would like a Christmas update! 0:)

Karl Henning · December 20, 2011, 06:43:37 AM

Hear, hear!

Luke · December 21, 2011, 12:23:18 AM

Sorry, guys, it's simply that there isn't much to say. I've hardly had any time for GMG recently - only two or three posts in the last couple of weeks, I guess. It's been my busiest time of the year, with two schools both doing dozens of Christmas shows and rehearsals and services (beautiful services in fabulous churches, but still hard work), and the endless driving between both... Still it's done now, thankfully.

So, no time for GMG, and certainly no time to compose! Nothing to report, except that

1) There wasn't enough time to rehearse The Lamb with my Chamber Choir, so instead I have been rehearsing it with a smaller group of girls in snatched 20 minute sessions which have made for slow going. The poem is equally suitable for Easter, I reasoned, so perhaps then....!

2) My big piano piece, which I am very excited about, is the one which has been haunting my thoughts when I go to bed at night. But it is still at a gestatory phase.

3) I am considering setting a group of ancient Egyptian poems for my chamber choir too. Maybe not with piano accompaniment - harp, flute, prepared piano are all possible, performable options. We'll see.

Other than that - well, continue to be patient!

Karl Henning · December 21, 2011, 02:15:05 AM

Good to see that there's background work. Hang in there!

Cato · December 29, 2011, 06:29:47 AM

Quote from: Luke on December 21, 2011, 12:23:18 AM

2) My big piano piece, which I am very excited about, is the one which has been haunting my thoughts when I go to bed at night. But it is still at a gestatory phase.

3) I am considering setting a group of ancient Egyptian poems for my chamber choir too. Maybe not with piano accompaniment - harp, flute, prepared piano are all possible, performable options. We'll see.

Other than that - well, continue to be patient!

"Big piano piece" and Carmina Aegyptica! I am very excited now too!

Karl Henning · December 29, 2011, 06:30:43 AM

Harp, flute, prepared piano . . . nice!

Cato · December 29, 2011, 01:59:31 PM

Quote from: karlhenning on December 29, 2011, 06:30:43 AM
Harp, flute, prepared piano . . . nice!

Prepared how? Tuned to certain quarter-tones, or maybe third-tones?

Guido · December 30, 2011, 02:17:49 AM

Surely in ther Cageian manner... The Sonatas and Interludes are often mentioned by Luke, and quarter tones haven't really featured in his work as far as I can remember...

Karl Henning · January 11, 2012, 06:54:48 AM

Pssst, happy new year!

Karl Henning · January 17, 2012, 10:47:03 AM

TTT

Karl Henning · February 06, 2012, 06:37:04 AM

TTT, again.

And, discreetly done here, BTW.

Luke · February 06, 2012, 06:46:05 AM

Hi Karl, and anyone else!

Phew, that must be the busiest eight or nine weeks of my life, just gone past. Rarely a moment free, and certainly not enough to concentrate on penning coherent posts on GMG. I'm still not there, quite - witness the incoherence of my two posts on the Bartok/Janacek thread (I know what I mean but I'm not saying it right!). But things are relaxing now, and a timely snow day today has helped.

Literally nothing to report on the composing front, unfortunately. Maybe with the spring...(faint hopes, but it has happened before). The urge is there, just not the time.