Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Work continues on In the Artist's Studio (yesterday's blog post here)

And an e-mail acknowledgement did at last come in, this morning, on the CV I sent to a certain choral society.  We shall see.

[Karl Henning]

Forgot what a pain i' th' neck the Amazon mp3 Downloader can be, too. Best get the task done with ....

[DavidRoss]

Guten Morgen, Karl!

[Karl Henning]

Bonjour, Dave!

[Karl Henning]

Current state:

[Karl Henning]

Forgot what a pain i' th' neck the Amazon mp3 Downloader can be, too. Best get the task done with ....

I seem at last to have got the knack of this arcane process. So now, at last, all the stuff I have had "up in the cloud" is now down to earth, as well.  Which means I'll listen to it all, and more.

[Kastchei]

Nice compositions, Karl.
I like your Alleluia in D very much.

[Karl Henning]

Thank you!

The Alleluia in D may be the closest thing yet to a "hit" — it's been sung by at least six choirs (one of them in Sweden).

[Karl Henning]

Ideas are continuing to flow, and in a most satisfactory manner, for In the Artist's Studio.

[Karl Henning]

Ideas are continuing to flow, and in a most satisfactory manner, for In the Artist's Studio.

Oh, and I've been chipping away at a Credo for the unhurried Mass-in-progress.

In news of modest success, the choir of First Church in Boston will (again) sing a motet I wrote for them, Love is the spirit, as part of the service this coming Sunday, the 23^rd.  The service live-streams at wers.org, and will begin at 11:00AM Chowder Time. For those fans of Henningmusick who do not mind listening to a service which surrounds it, this is a rare opportunity to hear it as it happens live.

[Karl Henning]

In news of modest success, the choir of First Church in Boston will (again) sing a motet I wrote for them, Love is the spirit, as part of the service this coming Sunday, the 23^rd.  The service live-streams at wers.org, and will begin at 11:00AM Chowder Time. For those fans of Henningmusick who do not mind listening to a service which surrounds it, this is a rare opportunity to hear it as it happens live.

This Sunday, FYI.

[TheGSMoeller]

This Sunday, FYI.

Awesome! Thanks for info, Karl. Gonna do my best to listen.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Greg!

[madaboutmahler]

Awesome! Thanks for info, Karl. Gonna do my best to listen.

Hope to hear it too, Karl!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Daniel!

[Karl Henning]

Rehearsal went very well. After rehearsal, a few members thanked me for writing the piece. Should be a lovely performance.

[TheGSMoeller]

Save the best for last must have been their thinking with where to place your piece.

Sort of a real-time review as it just ended, wonderful job, Karl, truly lovely work. The choir seemed very inspired. Thanks for sharing.

[Karl Henning]

Thank you indeed, Greg. The choir sang beautifully. I had something of a funny time of it. I had sung the piece once or twice with the choir before; but I had song one or another of the tenor lines. To-day, I was in the bass section, and there were a couple of tricky entrances ... not rhythmically, just finding my pitch in the polyphony. Of course, as I wrote the piece, the bass can find the pitch in one of the other lines ... I found it an engagingly tricky sight-read, because I had not worked out beforehand, where I should find those pitches. (This wasn't laziness on my part, absolutely; I did not know until I arrived which part I should be singing.)

[Karl Henning]

Happily, I did not mar mine own musick : )

[Karl Henning]

An improbable Blast from the Past . . . our runagate graduate composers ensemble at UB, The Fires of Tonawanda, performing me old mate Gary Barwin's Opera, 28 Nov 1990.  I chanced on the recital program while sorting antiquities the other day . . . and then, it turned out that Gary had the mp3 of the event.