Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Not as yet.

My old mate from Buffalo, Houston Dunleavy has just begun directing the music in an Anglican parish "down under," a parish who enjoy the services of a fine organist. So I've sent him the De profundis.

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[Karl Henning]

Good Triad rehearsal last night.  It was my first, after an absence of two weeks, so for this reason alone, the fact that we made fair progress on Thomas Stumpf's Dear Uncle Stranger is gravy.

The possibility of having Ear Buds read at NEC must be pushed out to March of 2018.

[Karl Henning]

The duo who are commissioning the pieces specifically want dance (or, dance-inflected) pieces, so that title will not do, I don't think.  So we have instead sand dance.

An interesting message came, not to advise me that my submission was not among those accepted, but apologizing for a delay (due to site/organization admin matters) in the process.

So the rejection email may still come in!

[Karl Henning]

Yesterday, we had a very good rehearsal of Sound + Sight (the musical component).  It is, of course, the first we've gotten together to play it since summer, when we performed it twice one Saturday afternoon on the Greenway.  So, there were a couple of places where we had to re-learn how to pace things to match the fixed media.  But overall, and as anticipated, it pretty much came right back to us.

I also learnt how to change noteheads efficiently in Sibelius, as I needed to notate out a psalm tone for an "edition" of Psalm 51 for the HTUMC choir to sing for the Ash Wednesday service, and which I wanted to be able to show them after church this morning (so that they are not sight-reading at the brief rehearsal before the 7pm service Wednesday).

[Karl Henning]

I did hear from another conductor (as yet only the second of the lot to whom I have sent it 'round) yesterday, who has a concert coming up this week, and he will look at the Symphony afterward.

[Karl Henning]

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.

Well, now we know:  the official rejection e-mail came in this afternoon.

Just reporting;  after all, rejections are fairly routine.

[Karl Henning]

Okay, the alternate version of Mistaken for the Sacred, for two flutes, horn and fixed media (Op.141a) is done.

Which, since we need to rehearse it on Wednesday evening, is far and away the good thing.

[Karl Henning]

There is a chance that Ensemble Aubade may play the Oxygen Footprint at the 24 March Somerville concert.

We rehearse Mistaken for the Sacred (as well as Sound + Sight) this Wednesday evening.

[Karl Henning]

Oh, and I am hoping that Thomas will be game to play the first movement of the Clarinet Sonata.

My hopeful program then would be:

Mistaken for the Sacred, Op.141a (première)
Carol Epple & Peter H. Bloom, flutes
Pamela Marshall, horn
(plus fixed media)

Oxygen Footprint, Op.138
Peter H. Bloom, flute
Francis Grimes, viola
Mary Jane Rupert, harp

Zen on the Wing, Op.114 № 2
Peter H. Bloom, flute
kh, clarinet

just what everyone was expecting, Op.114a
Another Think Coming (first movement of the Clarinet Sonata, Op.136, première)
kh, clarinet
Thomas Stumpf, piano

Sound + Sight, Op.140
Maria Bablyak, Irina Pisarenko, artists
Carol Epple & Peter H. Bloom, flutes
kh, clarinet
Pamela Marshall, horn
(plus fixed media)


Which is in all about an hour of music.

[Karl Henning]

There is a chance that Ensemble Aubade may play the Oxygen Footprint at the 24 March Somerville concert.

This is confirmed!

[Karl Henning]

Final Program:

Mistaken for the Sacred, Op.141a (première)
Carol Epple & Peter H. Bloom, flutes
Pamela Marshall, horn
(plus fixed media)

Oxygen Footprint, Op.138 (New England première)
Peter H. Bloom, flute
Francis Grimes, viola
Mary Jane Rupert, harp

Zen on the Wing, Op.114 № 2
Peter H. Bloom, flute
kh, clarinet

just what everyone was expecting, Op.114a (New England première)
kh, clarinet
Thomas Stumpf, piano

Sound + Sight, Op.140
Maria Bablyak, Irina Pisarenko, artists
Carol Epple & Peter H. Bloom, flutes
kh, clarinet
Pamela Marshall, horn
(plus fixed media)

52 minutes of music, give or take;  so a good program with no intermission.

[North Star]

Excellent news, Karl! I hope there will be a recording.

[Karl Henning]

Lord willin' and the creek don't rise! 

[Karl Henning]

In response to the attached, came this:


O M G SAVAGERY! That is the best title out there! I am very intrigued I will have to try and make it.

[Cato]

Let's hope that some of Boston's Grand Poobahs of Music decide to attend! 0:)

[Karl Henning]

Oh, thanks for the reminder!  I must send a notice to the Boston Music Intelligencer.  They won't send anyone;  but I don't want the reason that they don't cover another of my concerts to be, that they were not aware.

[Mahlerian]

I'll be interested in hearing a version of Mistaken for the Sacred that combines the electronics with live performance.  Keep us posted.

[Karl Henning]

Can you make it to Somerville?

[Karl Henning]

In fact . . .

Oxygen Footprint, Op.138a (New England première)
Peter H. Bloom, flute
Francis Grimes, viola
Mary Jane Rupert, piano

This will be the pf version of the Footprint.

Excellent rehearsal of both Mistaken for the Sacred and Sound + Sight with The Band last night.

[Mahlerian]

Can you make it to Somerville?

I hope so, but we'll see.