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karlhenning

What overall duration are you aiming for?

greg

At first, I had in mind something short and playful, maybe only 2 minutes long.
Yesterday, I wrote the first 30 seconds, which is the alto flute solo at extremely slow tempo. It's beautiful. I'm looking to include some good counterpoint, maybe a canon, if it comes to mind.
So, I really don't know... maybe 5 minutes at least?  ??? (if it continues with this tempo)

karlhenning

5 minutes is good.

Keep up the work!


DavidRoss

BTW, Karl, I succeeded in getting adequate streaming performance to listen to the QuickTime files Shauna posted.  In general I liked them, some quite a bit--particularly Radiant Maples and Lost Waters.  My wife in the next room overheard several of the pieces and kept asking me who the composer was, because she liked them all very much.  She wondered if you might consider a transcription of Lost Waters for guitar.
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karlhenning

Quote from: DavidRoss on July 16, 2009, 01:09:24 PM
BTW, Karl, I succeeded in getting adequate streaming performance to listen to the QuickTime files Shauna posted.  In general I liked them, some quite a bit--particularly Radiant Maples and Lost Waters.  My wife in the next room overheard several of the pieces and kept asking me who the composer was, because she liked them all very much.  She wondered if you might consider a transcription of Lost Waters for guitar.

Delighted that you & Mrs Dave are enjoying the music!  Over the years, I've actually gone back and forth on the question of a guitar transcription . . . early on I had just the same idea (Irving's Hudson should work practically unchanged, for instance) . . . but the other three would need some re-thinking, and I need a bit of guitar-education, so that I can re-think smarter rather than more.  It was an idea I left un-acted-upon for long enough, that my volition abandoned it.  Now with the alternative re-thinking (relatively minor) involved in a harpsichord adaptation for Paul Cienniwa, probably I should consider again a guitar adaptation.

Separately . . . anyone else know what "purposeful incoherence" means?

secondwind

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 17, 2009, 04:00:37 AM
Separately . . . anyone else know what "purposeful incoherence" means?
It's pretty hard to give a definition, but I'm sure that, to paraphrase a Supreme Court opinion on another hard-to-define concept, we'd all know it when we see/hear it! ;D

karlhenning

No doubt; hah!  ;D


karlhenning

Going to play Irreplaceable Doodles on Sunday.

For this occasion, I think: not the carrot.


karlhenning

A couple of acquaintances (one of them, from way back), who are fervent champions of new music, have been out of contact for a spell.  What to do?  (I had not much been thinking about it, either . . . busy with my own affairs.)

Inspiration came out of the blue to take the new fl/cl duet, Heedless Watermelon, and adapt it for va/vc.  And yes, that's a better idea than writing for the third or fourth time, Have you possibly, maybe, please, had a chance to look at a score I sent you, gosh, eighteen months ago?

Of course, nothing may come of it — or, more accurately, nothing may continue to come of it.  But at least, now I have a fresh item in the catalogue.

Playing Irreplaceable Doodles later today.

karlhenning

QuotePlaying Irreplaceable Doodles later today.

Had great fun with this.  The music program was actually a pianist and mezzo (Ishmael Wallace and Hayden DeWitt), Vienna circa 1911: Ecstatic Vision, Intimations of Dissolution (Ishmael opened with the Berg Sonata, Opus 1).  The host had come to the June recital in Woburn, where Blue Shamrock had made such an impression, he extended a very warm invitation to come play at yesterday's event.  Huge house, and I counted eight pianos (one of them an upright) . . . so the two halves of the Viennese program were split between the two floors.  I was told I would play at the end of the first half (it was all very casual).  I was made welcome to play the Shamrock;  but the casual semi-organization of the affair left me doubtful that there would be stands available (for one needs to spread the music for Blue Shamrock over two or three stands) . . . I brought my own stand "in case," though I fully expected it to be the only stand available.  For this reason (and also as rehearsal for 29 July), I elected to play Irreplaceable Doodles instead, which I can play from a binder and pretty much manage page-turns myself.  Went very well. 


Haffner

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 20, 2009, 05:22:04 PM
At the scene.



I was messing around with your adagietto on the guitar this morning, Karl. Really cool stuff.

karlhenning



greg


karlhenning

Yo, sorry for the delay, lad, yo.