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Karl Henning · October 30, 2016, 03:23:52 AM

Save the Date

On Monday, 28 November I will be the featured guest on the AFTERNOON CLASSICS segment of WJFF Radio Catskill (Jeffersonville, NY).

Tell you more a little later.

Karl Henning · October 30, 2016, 03:47:27 AM

What music to include?

So far I am thinking:

Out in the Sun
Agnus Dei
Contemplating the Irrepressible
Plotting (y is the new x)
Alleluia in D
Nicodemus brings myrrh and aloes for the burial of the Christ

Karl Henning · October 30, 2016, 05:18:52 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 30, 2016, 03:47:27 AM
What music to include?

So far I am thinking:

Out in the Sun
Agnus Dei
Contemplating the Irrepressible
Plotting (y is the new x)
Alleluia in D
Nicodemus brings myrrh and aloes for the burial of the Christ

Oh, and My Island Home.

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North Star · October 30, 2016, 05:23:43 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 30, 2016, 03:23:52 AM
Save the Date

On Monday, 28 November I will be the featured guest on the AFTERNOON CLASSICS segment of WJFF Radio Catskill (Jeffersonville, NY).

Tell you more a little later.

Excellent news, Karl!

Karl Henning · October 30, 2016, 03:32:20 PM

Thanks, Karlo!

Liv will send me proper audio of My Island Home (which up to now i have only heard via the video document of the entire concert).

If Paul has good audio of the most recent Alleluia in D performance, that will be a good inclusion.

North Star · October 30, 2016, 03:58:36 PM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 30, 2016, 03:32:20 PM
Thanks, Karlo!

Liv will send me proper audio of My Island Home (which up to now i have only heard via the video document of the entire concert).

If Paul has good audio of the most recent Alleluia in D performance, that will be a good inclusion.

It would certainly be good to hear the proper audio of that My Island Home performance.

How about Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels?

Karl Henning · October 30, 2016, 04:17:37 PM

Quote from: North Star on October 30, 2016, 03:58:36 PM
It would certainly be good to hear the proper audio of that My Island Home performance.

How about Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels?

Yes! Good idea.

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Karl Henning · October 31, 2016, 01:16:10 AM

The latest addition was mostly Saturday morning's work, and I was not sure it was quite right. Left it alone all yesterday. Made some slight modifications this morning, and the result is something which I just may let stand.

Edit :: old version deleted

Karl Henning · October 31, 2016, 04:10:32 AM

Out in the Sun - 16'
Agnus Dei - 5'
Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels - 5'
Plotting (y is the new x) - 12'
Alleluia in D - 3'

41' . . . still ample room.

I'll hope to get decent audio first thing for The Young Lady, that's 12' more.

I was thinking to add From the Pit of a Cave in the Cloud, too, but I have no "pure audio" of the performance take; still, I may extract the audio from the video, and see how it holds up.

Adding both those, the total is almost 70 minutes, which may be fine.

Karl Henning · November 04, 2016, 04:19:40 AM

Thanks!

I have not listened to it yet, but the audio for the Alleluia in D may not be up to snuff; Paul reports that it was a good performance, but the choir sang up on the second balcony, the mic in the sanctuary is in a fixed place, and as a result he wrote that the sound is not what we should wish.

Tonight we rehearse The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth. All the players have been practicing their parts, so even allowing for some under-tempo put-it-together rehearsal tonight, we may get the piece reasonably close.

Karl Henning · November 09, 2016, 10:52:20 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 28, 2015, 02:44:22 AM
In other, light news ...

Orlando Cela wrote Monday to the effect that he's started practicing Neither do I condemn thee, and he finds it "nifty."

Carol Epple (flutist for the Op.129) is keener than ever to press for a Kammerwerke commission and performance of The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth. (She was practicing the flute 1 part, and told me one section in particular is "gorgeous.") They will read it in their rehearsal this Friday. I had asked if it would be of help to them, if I attend; the feeling, though, is that the conductor's musical conservatism may be an object, and managing that will be easier without me there. A distinct possibility: if their conductor feels he could not conduct my score, they will suggest having the composer guest-conduct.

And I've sent Pam Marshall (hornist for the Op.129) the Op.65 cl/hn duos, with her good leave ... so we should be getting together soon to read them!

Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan (who is presently a Grammy nominee) is game to take part in Henningmusick, and we're planning to meet so that I can enjoy a guitar tutorial, probably next week. I'm only holding off on writing your guitar piece, Jessop, knowing this meeting with Aaron will be a necessary musical benefit.

Yesterday's crew are keen to perform the Op.129 again. I'm looking at March.

We are in the process of finding a date this coming Spring.

Karl Henning · November 09, 2016, 10:56:56 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 19, 2015, 03:23:14 AM
Yes, I think so.

http://www.americancomposers.org/2015/10/06/unmr-submission-guidelines-2016/

I chanced (and quite possibly the same way — via a Facebook event) upon this year's call. Obviously, I was not beginning the symphony with this in mind, but . . . since I cannot resubmit Discreet Erasures, it seems only appropriate to submit the Allegro molto this year.

Hey, you never know.

Karl Henning · November 10, 2016, 11:00:58 AM

Peter Bloom is in South Carolina, touring with the trio. We had a brief chat on the phone on my lunch break; we are going to try to schedule a meet-up with the four of us to talk about . . . well, I am not sure just what, really

(The trio, of course.) But they don't get back until Monday, and I have an unusually full week. Still, we should be able to meet either Wednesday evening, or Saturday, well before the Triad concert.

The violist, Frank Grimes, sent e-mail with a question on how to fix an erratum in m.355 . . . that was easy

They will perform Oxygen Footprint in Stamford, NY on Sunday the 20th.

Karl Henning · November 11, 2016, 02:45:22 AM

I conduct Kammerwerke in The Young Lady Holding a Phone on Her Teeth a week from tonight.

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Cato · November 11, 2016, 03:50:05 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 11, 2016, 02:45:22 AM
I conduct Kammerwerke in The Young Lady Holding a Phone on Her Teeth a week from tonight.

Exciting times! And I hope From the Pit of a Cave in the Cloud Opus 129 can be recorded again! Maybe NAXOS will finally show up!

Cato · November 11, 2016, 03:39:04 PM

Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on November 11, 2016, 02:42:12 PM
I need that!!

We All Do! 0:)

Karl Henning · November 12, 2016, 05:07:19 AM

Most kind, thank you both!

Karl Henning · November 12, 2016, 10:04:46 AM

Got some good work done on the fixed media component of Mistaken for the Sacred this morning.

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Karl Henning · November 12, 2016, 06:59:57 PM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 12, 2016, 10:04:46 AM
Got some good work done on the fixed media component of Mistaken for the Sacred this morning.

I do think the fixed media bit may be done.

Karl Henning · November 14, 2016, 06:14:22 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 03, 2016, 02:58:51 PM
Just a start ... the eventual end product is the wooden percussion and fixed media piece for Olivia, Mistaken for the Sacred.

Very interesting to revisit this, which uses much more in the way of "treatments" than I wound up applying to those elements. (And which I probably did, because I knew that . . . something else [in an additive sense] was required.) I've since discovered just what I wanted . . . This morning I made some last (not merely fussy) tweaks to the fixed media, so perhaps this evening (before rehearsal) I may hoist it up to YouTube. I am waiting to hear from Liv about her gear and how it will be set up. She will be in charge of temple blocks (which I know about), wood blocks (ditto), wood slats (which I remember her rehearsing with, together with Brandon Dodge), wooden bowls (which is my largest question, number of, and manner of playing), and marimba.