Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

All the dust (glittery, cheerful dust, to be sure) of the holidays must have settled:  back at work on the second movement of the Symphony.

[Mirror Image]

Any luck, John?

Yes, I wanted to write something last night but I was too tired. I really enjoyed your interview --- you have a voice for radio my friend! Your commentary was also insightful and it's nice to get some background into your own life and the things that inspired you from early on. The works you selected were also nicely chosen. Since you're out there now in radio land, I really hope this brings even more success your way.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!  Matt's wife was saying, "Now you can say you're a monthly radio guest...."

[Mirror Image]

Thanks!  Matt's wife was saying, "Now you can say you're a monthly radio guest...."

Hah! Let's hope you'll go back for another interview sometime or even with a different station.

[Karl Henning]

Today, I've both aided mine loved ones by serving as chauffeur, and made substantial sketches for the second movement of the symphony.  I'm still waiting on a lobby bench ... there's a fair chance I'll have an updated score to post this evening.

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[Karl Henning]

This is what the beginning of the second movement may sound like.

A great, great deal of work done yesterday and (mostly) today:

[Karl Henning]

A great, great deal of work done yesterday and (mostly) today:

There is actually a little more . . . I exported the PDF before I had folded in all the material I had sketched today.

[Karl Henning]

Continuing to make good progress . . . after some light rest, will work some more.

[North Star]

So what's the deal with the new interview? Is it available, and is there much overlap with the first one in content?

[Sergeant Rock]

...and made substantial sketches for the second movement of the symphony.

Excellent. As a symphony nut I'm really looking forward to the completion...not that I mean to rush you. Take your time 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

So what's the deal with the new interview? Is it available, and is there much overlap with the first one in content?

Although we do not know just how long the podcast will be available at the WJFF website ("a couple of weeks," I was told) it is presently available.

Considerable overlap, to be sure.  The order of the pieces was different;  the second time, we skipped the fixed media for Mistaken for the Sacred and the excerpt from Moonrise, but we were thereby able to include Castelo dos anjos.  There was some repetition in the between-music banter, but it all felt reasonably spontaneous . . . certainly there was no script, per se.

[North Star]

Although we do not know just how long the podcast will be available at the WJFF website ("a couple of weeks," I was told) it is presently available.

Considerable overlap, to be sure.  The order of the pieces was different;  the second time, we skipped the fixed media for Mistaken for the Sacred and the excerpt from Moonrise, but we were thereby able to include Castelo dos anjos.  There was some repetition in the between-music banter, but it all felt reasonably spontaneous . . . certainly there was no script, per se.

Cheers, Karl. I've listened to the first 45 mins now (I'll save the rest for later). The repetition certainly doesn't bother so far.

[Karl Henning]

Excellent. As a symphony nut I'm really looking forward to the completion...not that I mean to rush you. Take your time 

Sarge

Fond as I am of you, dear fellow, I expect you could not rush me—the internal motivation suffices fully.  Now that the holiday hubbub is done, and here I am with a week off from the office, lo! somehow I find myself able to focus on composition.  Who would have thought? 

I am mighty close to wrapping up the Larghetto, and it does not seem madness to project a finished piece in mid-January.

[Karl Henning]

Cheers, Karl. I've listened to the first 45 mins now (I'll save the rest for later). The repetition certainly doesn't bother so far.

Good to know, Karlo!  Thank you.

[Karl Henning]

In the attached PDF, the only new work is a fanfare which I am still considering;  but I have done more work, only of the scheming variety.

More tomorrow!

[Karl Henning]

I worked the ending last night.  I am still in the mulling stage, but I think it may be more or less done.  (There is a measure here and a measure there where my ear raised a yellow flag, so the comb's fine teeth remain at the ready.)  The movement runs almost a minute longer than "planned";  in fact, I had planned on the brass coda . . . and the need both to "stop the train," and to allow the coda to be a part of the design, rather than "What just happened? Oh, is the movement over?" meant that (a) the coda needed more play, and (b) I felt that the woodwind recap at [ N ] worked better at a relaxed tempo, too, as a sort of temporal transition.

http://www.youtube.com/v/-WCZ77mt2aE

As I approach the final double-bar of the second movement (and realize, among other things, that I ought to renumber the pages to follow the first movement), I bumped up the staff size for the first movement, and made an initial attempt at laying it out afresh . . . I expect more proofing is in store . . . .


(Yes, I changed the staff size again . . . .)

[Karl Henning]

Almost immediately last night, the fanfare seemed to me perfectly fine.  I may do no more than add some timpani strokes, to make it official 

[Karl Henning]

The second movement is quite possibly done.  I'm going out for a walk to let my mind clear.

[Karl Henning]

Here is the piece by Saunder Choi which I conducted on the November Triad concerts:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Ij0wRjmg0LY

[Karl Henning]

The MIDI caveats are if anything a little heavier in the present instance;  but for any who can bear it 

http://www.youtube.com/v/JpI9Zr8rqW4

Earlier, I was belatedly busy seeing to management of the Triad YouTube channel;  but somehow my Muse does insist that I notate the first few measures of the third movement . . . .