Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Well, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/v/dcofMh91_7M

[North Star]

Cool. I hear echoes of the Penguin Café Orchestra in the synthesizer strings from around 2 minutes on.

[Karl Henning]

Cool. I hear echoes of the Penguin Café Orchestra in the synthesizer strings from around 2 minutes on.

That's fair 

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[Cato]

Cool. I hear echoes of the Penguin Café Orchestra in the synthesizer strings from around 2 minutes on.

That is a striking moment!

I wrote the following to Karl:

"Your newest work is extraterrestrial: it is a composition from another planet!

The opus was most arresting: the text became like one of those psychology tests whr th vwls r tkn t bt yt vrythng cn b ndrstd, as if English were Hebrew...or Martian! 0:)

The music at 2 minutes and afterward: excellent!  There is a schizophrenic aspect to the work - in the good sense 😇 - as your voice wants to be heard, and breaks through at times, and then recedes as the music breaks through, a polyphonistic "conversation" where the elements do what they want individually."

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!  Liv has a big concert, too, this Friday, so she must be a busy soul.  I have started to think of the solo part, but I need to hear from her both to confirm a couple of points, and for advice on another point or two.

Good Triad rehearsal last night.  I wish my own piece were a little less shaky;  but at least, the piece which I am conducting, we sang the best we have.  If my piece does not get tighter on the concerts, I may take a break from the group—I just feel that I am giving a certain level to the group, and that my piece deserves a bit better in return than its state at last night's rehearsal.  But, yes, of course, we're all working hard.

[Karl Henning]

Good HTUMC choir rehearsal last night.  The two members of the Youth Choir who are the musical stars joined us, which was a charming addition to the sound.  One of the twain is the flutist, so last night felt like the first rehearsal in the home stretch toward the 11 Dec Christmas concert.

Separately, we are tantalizingly close to setting a date for the return of From the Pit of a Cave in the Cloud.  Other music I am considering for that program:  the Sound & Sight performance piece, and an alternate version of Mistaken for the Sacred with the winds from the Op.129.

[Karl Henning]

Well, and possibly Things Like Bliss scored for clarinet, harp & harpsichord.

[Karl Henning]

Well, and possibly Things Like Bliss scored for clarinet, harp & harpsichord.

Harpsichordist Alastair Thompson is available that day, and game.  And we shall see if harpist Mary Jane Rupert is on board (Peter is going to warmly encourage her).  Still waiting for definite word on the venue.

Tonight:  the open dress rehearsal of The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth.  I shall have time for a "power nap" after I get from the office.

[Karl Henning]

Good "dress (working) rehearsal" with Kammerwerke last night . . . a few things which were a bit sketchy last night which we have done perfectly fine before, so I chalk that up to 8:30PM at the business end of a long day for all of us.  (Of course, the concert is 7:30 tonight . . . but my Young Lady opens the program.)

[Karl Henning]

(Of course, the concert is 7:30 tonight . . . but my Young Lady opens the program.)

I was wrong.  Even better, of course, The Young Lady closed the first half of the program. The piece went very well last night (short of perfect, but the first performance practically always is).  And the concert was professionally recorded, audio and video;  hopefully, the audio will be available to me in time for my radio interview on the 28^th.

My prologue was well received, too.

[Karl Henning]

Conducting The Young Lady

[Karl Henning]

And afterwards.

[Karl Henning]

The To Do List

Mark handbell parts for Morning Light (actually, no use having these in the folder before 4 Dec . . . hopefully, not too late, then: concert is 11 Dec)

Reflow pp.9-10 of vocal score of In dulci jubilo (for choir rehearsal 22 Nov)

Have a tentative Christmas Concert order to review/revise with Anne (tomorrow morning)

Sit in on Oxygen Footprint rehearsal (12:00 today)

Arrange New Year's Carol (for choir rehearsal 22 Nov)

Report for Triad concert I (18:00 today, Cambridge)

Learn how the MIDI voices are invoked at the organ at HTUMC (sometime soon)

Try to pin down a venue for the 24 March concert.

Report for Triad concert II (18:00 tomorrow, Somerville)

Re-score In dulci jubilo for Dan (by 1 Dec)

Harvest video files from the Triad concerts and return video equipment to Peter (before Thanksgiving)

Prepare CD of Henningmusick for the radio interview (by Saturday 26 Nov)

Compose the percussion solo for Mistaken for the Sacred (ASAP, considering)

Finish cleaning up the vocal score for the Schulte Exaudi me (within two weeks of the present Triad concerts)

Arrange Things Like Bliss for clarinet, harp, harpsichord (probably after the Op.141 and Schulte tasks)

Resume second movement of Symphony (when the dust has somewhat settled)

[Karl Henning]

Very good Triad concert tonight;  and we had this one professionally recorded. I'll have Peter's video camera tomorrow, which will be serviceable.

[Karl Henning]

Thank you!

[Cato]

Very good Triad concert tonight;  and we had this one professionally recorded. I'll have Peter's video camera tomorrow, which will be serviceable.

Excellent!

Finish cleaning up the vocal score for the Schulte Exaudi me (within two weeks of the present Triad concerts)

Now there is some curious and even mysterious business!

[Karl Henning]

Well, and the exercise of making out the list yielded the value I hoped for . . . I wanted to forget nothing, and after posting the initial list, I found that I had forgotten Dan's arrangement of In dulci jubilo!  At least, I knew right away what that string tied around my finger was for . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Peter reports that Oxygen Footprint was both well played and well received yesterday;  and the fourth Triad program is now in the books.  (We have a one-off Triad date in January at the Church of the Advent, which will repeat some of the program we've just sung).

And we have confirmed that we can perform in Somerville on 24 March:  the Op.129 will swing again!

[Karl Henning]

The To Do List (updated)

Reflow pp.9-10 of vocal score of In dulci jubilo (for choir rehearsal 22 Nov)

Have a tentative Christmas Concert order to review/revise with Anne (tomorrow morning)

Sit in on Oxygen Footprint rehearsal (12:00 today)

Report for Triad concert I (18:00 today, Cambridge)

Learn how the MIDI voices are invoked at the organ at HTUMC (sometime soon)

Try to pin down a venue for the 24 March concert.

Report for Triad concert II (18:00 tomorrow, Somerville)

Arrange New Year's Carol (for choir rehearsal 22 Nov)

Re-score In dulci jubilo for Dan (by 1 Dec)

Mark handbell parts for Morning Light (for 4 Dec)

Prepare CD of Henningmusick for the radio interview (by Saturday 26 Nov)

Compose the percussion solo for Mistaken for the Sacred (ASAP, considering)

Finish cleaning up the vocal score for the Schulte Exaudi me (within two weeks of the present Triad concerts)

Arrange Things Like Bliss for clarinet, harp, harpsichord (probably after the Op.141 and Schulte tasks)

Resume second movement of Symphony (when the dust has somewhat settled)

[Karl Henning]

In less urgent news, we have a Triad date in January, one act in a composite program at the Church of the Advent.  There is no piano in the Advent Library, so we will only sing a cappella (the way God intended choirs to sing   0:) ) . . . which means that my Song of Remembrance is out of the running.  For ease of rehearsal scheduling, we are only repeating items from the concerts we've just sung.  I've given my opinion that we should sing the Turner, Daniels, Burchard . . . and the Marshall, if we have the space.