Henning's Headquarters

Started by BachQ, April 07, 2007, 12:21:26 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 4 Guests are viewing this topic.

karlhenning

Turns out that Ed was responsible for the breakdown of the soundboard.  No comment.

Ed also gave away my 21 May recital date;  he simply promised it to another group without checking the calendar.  Hoping that the violist can find a Wednesday clear to reschedule.

greg

Quote from: karlhenning on May 13, 2008, 04:37:04 PM
Turns out that Ed was responsible for the breakdown of the soundboard.  No comment.

:D

karlhenning

No, no. I still forbear to comment.

BachQ

Quote from: karlhenning on May 13, 2008, 04:37:04 PM
Turns out that Ed was responsible for the breakdown of the soundboard.  No comment.

Quote from: karlhenning on May 14, 2008, 07:31:02 AM
No, no. I still forbear to comment.

Karl, while it may be true that you have "no comment," we know what you're thinking:


karlhenning

Violist Peter Cama-Lekx, who has just completed a Master's in viola performance at Boston University, and whose steady-state for as long as I've known him as been about two or three orders too busy (for he is trying to accomplish much) . . . Pete and I have rescheduled our duo recital for Wednesday, 18 June. Not only is it that this gives us ample calendar space for rehearsal, Pete's life over the next few weeks allows him to rehearse a lot. And, as I'm taking next week off from the various jobs, I will be able both to get the wedding music wrapped up, and get the clarinet into fighting trim.

The program:

Obsession & Digression || Duologue & Monologue
[ Listening to the Early 21st Century ]


Steve Hicken, The Rings of Saturn (2005) (cl/va duet; premiere)
Joshua Sellers, Dithyramb (1992, rev. 2008) (cl solo; premiere)
Karl Henning, Irreplaceable Doodles (2007) (cl solo)
Henning, Blue Shamrock (2002) (cl solo)
Henning, The Mousetrap (2007) (cl/va duet; premiere)

Karl Henning, clarinet
Peter Cama-Lekx, viola

Wednesday, 18 June 2008
12:15pm
The Cathedral Church of St Paul
138 Tremont Street, Boston


Blue Shamrock and the Irreplaceable Doodles are intense technical challenges, the kind of music which forces me to practice, rather than coast into a performance. The new duet, The Mousetrap, has difficulties of a similar order; knowing Pete for a crack violist, I wrote a part that he can really dig into . . . and sure enough, he has muttered things like, "Evil!," "You're crazy, you know," &c. as we've worked on the piece.

greg

Quote from: karlhenning on May 15, 2008, 05:33:05 AM
and sure enough, he has muttered things like, "Evil!," "You're crazy, you know," &c. as we've worked on the piece.
oh, we all knew that......

karlhenning

And now, per Brett's suggestion, some noodly organ toccata-ish bits  ;)

karlhenning

Weird, but entirely good, news: there is a CD with the 4 May performances of Pascha nostrum & Nuhro.

karlhenning

Quote
And now, per Brett's suggestion, some noodly organ toccata-ish bits  ;)

And a kind of staggering brass chorale which practically wrote itself.  Weird.  But nice.

"Staggering" as in gradual entrances;  I wasn't being self-congratulatory  8)

Harry

#430
The piece you send me, Prelude for Organ is quite a fascinating work, that kept me listening. :)
I will have to listen much more to it, and somehow relate the sounds to a real organ, but its certainly spellbounding.

karlhenning

Thanks, Harry; and I hope that all is going well in preparation for tomorrow's performance!

Harry

Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2008, 10:13:42 AM
Thanks, Harry; and I hope that all is going well in preparation for tomorrow's performance!

Yes, all is going well!
It will be a success. :)

karlhenning

Just as I knew to expect: splendid!

I do have a special fondness for that Magnificat, you know!

karlhenning

There's a lot that is 'untrue' to the piece in this MIDI . . . the organ patch is weird;  and because I'm not really happy with the solo string patches, I've here used a 'String Ensemble' patch for the string quartet, so that the quartet, too, sound much bigger in the mix than they ought.  Oh, and did I mention that the organ patch is weird? -- the final A in the organ is actually notated an octave lower than it sounds.  All the same, the surging energy of the piece comes across.

greg

Quote from: karlhenning on May 24, 2008, 04:38:33 PM
There's a lot that is 'untrue' to the piece in this MIDI . . . the organ patch is weird;  and because I'm not really happy with the solo string patches, I've here used a 'String Ensemble' patch for the string quartet, so that the quartet, too, sound much bigger in the mix than they ought.  Oh, and did I mention that the organ patch is weird? -- the final A in the organ is actually notated an octave lower than it sounds.  All the same, the surging energy of the piece comes across.
wait....... now which one is op.93?

greg

Karl, my 4000th post is coming up..... any ideas?

and when your 10,000th post comes up.... we'll have to make a thread for that!  :)

J.Z. Herrenberg

Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 24, 2008, 06:19:46 PM
Karl, my 4000th post is coming up..... any ideas?

and when your 10,000th post comes up.... we'll have to make a thread for that!  :)

Harry will be there first...
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

greg

Quote from: Jezetha on May 25, 2008, 01:45:05 AM
Harry will be there first...
ok, then we should maybe start a single thread for everyone who reaches 10,000 maybe?

karlhenning