Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Was moved to the West Newton facility last night. We continue!

[aligreto]

All steady progress in the right direction Karl which is great to see. Continued recovery and good wishes.

[Cato]

From Maria Bablyak:

Today Karl at last was well enough to move out of the acute rehabilitation hospital to the skilled nursing facility where he'll continue getting therapy and professional care. Thanks to your financial support which is making it possible! Again and again I want to say how grateful and overwhelmed we are for all the time and care everyone gave us. This is the toughest holiday season we've ever had and yet I'm greeting this season with a heart full of gratitude, realizing how many wonderful people we know, how many wonderful friends we have! Thank you for making us feel that we are not alone and giving so much love and care!

Not to be forgotten:

Karl's wife, Maria Bablyak, is willing to take offers on her paintings to raise funds for his recovery: if you are in the market for some marvelous artworks, please consider e.g.:




See:

https://www.facebook.com/maria.bablyak/posts/10155951703658715

[Karl Henning]

All steady progress in the right direction Karl which is great to see. Continued recovery and good wishes.

HeartyThanks!

[Florestan]

We continue!

That's the spirit, Karl! Bravo!

[zamyrabyrd]

A song for you, Karl, and the rest of us, too:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Buq40brGDTY

Next time you're found, with your chin on the ground There a lot to be learned, so look around

Just what makes that little old ant Think he'll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can't Move a rubber tree plant

But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes
Hes got high apple pie, in the sky hopes

So any time your gettin low, Stead of lettin go
Just remember that ant Oops there goes another rubber tree plant

When troubles call, and your back's to the wall
There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall

Once there was a silly old ram Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram He kept buttin that dam

Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes

So any time your feelin bad Stead of feelin sad
Just remember that ram Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam

All problems just a toy balloon They'll be bursted soon
They're just bound to go pop Oops there goes another problem kerplop

Songwriters: JIMMY VAN HEUSEN, SAMMY CAHN
(Actually I could never figure out the last stanza until reading it now.)

[Cato]

Maria Bablyak on FaceBook shows nearly $9,000 has been collected from around 100 people, so that she and Karl can meet expenses for his recovery.

There is also a Go Fund Me page at c.  $12,000:


https://www.gofundme.com/helping-karl-to-recover-from-stroke

I will be on the road for 10 hours today, and therefore incommunicado until later in the evening.  We are hoping to be home in Ohio before things get "iffy" on the road with idiots driving around, especially south of the Ohio in moonshine country.   

[Karl Henning]

Many thanks, all. I've settled in at the new place. Will proceed with therapy this morning.

[aligreto]

Best of luck and continued good progress Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Many thanks, all. I've settled in at the new place. Will proceed with therapy this morning.

I've had a restful weekend, so I'm ready to get back to work

[Florestan]

I've had a restful weekend, so I'm ready to get back to work

Happy New Year, Karl! Best of luck!

[vandermolen]

Happy New Year, Karl! Best of luck!

From me too Karl
Jeffrey

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, and to you, gents!

[Florestan]

Listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/yR94CiqtFLs

Thank you, Karl, for recommending it to me. It really melt my (uber-romantic) heart, but, but, but --- it's just an arrangement of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen", which I recognized instantly.... --- so my question is, did Schoenberg ever write a heart-melting melody of his own making?

[Cato]

Listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/yR94CiqtFLs

Thank you, Karl, for recommending it to me. It really melt my (uber-romantic) heart, but, but, but --- it's just an arrangement of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen", which I recognized instantly.... --- so my question is, did Schoenberg ever write a heart-melting melody of his own making?

Oh my, so many choices!

Let me recommend off the top of my head: Verklaerte Nacht, the love songs in Part I of Gurrelieder, especially Tove's final song, along with Part II Lied der Waldtaube, Pelleas und Melisande, the two Chamber Symphonies, Friede auf Erden, Die Nacht from Pierrot Lunaire, the Recognition scene toward the end of Erwartung, and for heart-melting Sprechstimme try the cantata Die Jakobsleiter with the song Herr, mein ganzes Leben lang and the final scene of the opera Moses und Aron.

[Ken B]

Listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/yR94CiqtFLs

Thank you, Karl, for recommending it to me. It really melt my (uber-romantic) heart, but, but, but --- it's just an arrangement of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen", which I recognized instantly.... --- so my question is, did Schoenberg ever write a heart-melting melody of his own making?

Oh Andrei. Schoenberg wrote lots of music that will bring tears to your eyes.

[JBS]

Oh my, so many choices!

Let me recommend off the top of my head: Verklaerte Nacht, the love songs in Part I of Gurrelieder, especially Tove's final song, along with Part II Lied der Waldtaube, Pelleas und Melisande, the two Chamber Symphonies, Friede auf Erden, Die Nacht from Pierrot Lunaire, the Recognition scene toward the end of Erwartung, and for heart-melting Sprechstimme try the cantata Die Jakobsleiter with the song Herr, mein ganzes Leben lang and the final scene of the opera Moses und Aron.

Your definition of heart warming is apparently not mine.

Oh Andrei. Schoenberg wrote lots of music that will bring tears to your eyes.

Of pain.

I find AS's music icy and unemotional. The only exceptions being Verklarte Nacht and one other thing, the precise identity of which I can't recall.

[Mandryka]

Listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/yR94CiqtFLs

Thank you, Karl, for recommending it to me. It really melt my (uber-romantic) heart, but, but, but --- it's just an arrangement of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen", which I recognized instantly.... --- so my question is, did Schoenberg ever write a heart-melting melody of his own making?

Schoenberg got ill you know, not a stroke like Karl but a heart attack, a bad one. And he recovered well enough to write a major masterpiece, the trio op 45. Some of it is indeed heart melting, the episodes especially.

Anyway thanks to you I had an idea for Karl, I think he should write a setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins's God's Grandeur . It's crying out to be set to music and as far as I know no one's done it yet.

[Cato]

Schoenberg got ill you know, not a stroke like Karl but a heart attack, a bad one. And he recovered well enough to write a major masterpiece, the trio op 45. Some of it is indeed heart melting, the episodes especially.

Your definition of heart warming is apparently not mine.


I find AS's music icy and unemotional. The only exceptions being Verklarte Nacht and one other thing, the precise identity of which I can't recall.

No, apparently not!     But ears and minds change throughout the years!  Who knows?  Some day you might hear the non-iciness and deep emotion which I perceive.   0:)   

[Karl Henning]

To be clear, the original thesis was that Schoenberg was incapable of writing restful music, and my suggestion was the first counterexample which occurred to me.

The demand for a heart-melting melody is both a repositioning of the goal posts, and sufficiently subjective that no response I offer will satisfy.