Henning's Headquarters

[karlhenning]

I was surprised at how early I went home: before seven! (PM)

[karlhenning]

Non-composition activities continue in full swing.  May well be February before I get back to work.

Meanwhile, I had more capacity remaining on the Sansa Fuze than I had thought, so in the past week I've gone ahead and loaded it with:

Sibelius, seven symphonies, The Oceanides & Tapiola (Helsinki Phil, Berglund)
Berlioz, L'enfance du Christ (BSO, Munch) . . . the first Berlioz I've loaded!
Shostakovich, Two Pieces after Scarlatti for wind band (Rozhdestvensky conducting)
Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine (Boston Baroque, Marty Pearlman)
Frank Zappa, One Size Fits All
Penguin Café Orchestra, the second album (called Penguin Café Orchestra)
Peter Gabriel, So
Assorted Mannheim Steamroller Christmas bits
The Beatles, Revolver
The Beatles, The Beatles
The Beatles, Mono Masters plus a couple of stereo Past Masters
The Bobs, My, I'm Large
Cat Stevens, The Very Best of
Gidon Kremer & al., Hommage à Piazzolla
Scelsi, Natura renovatur (Frances-Marie Uitti, vc, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen)
Hovhaness, Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra & Other Works

. . . and I've still got a little room yet.  Having great fun with this.

In fact, I have an idea that the first albums I "ripped" were at a too-rich rate . . . I suppose I could make some more room without sacrifice, by going back and re-ripping some eight CDs which were the first I ever loaded.

[karlhenning]

Revisiting the Passion

[karlhenning]

Viola in Space

[Sergeant Rock]

Viola in Space

Cool vid, Karl

Sarge

[DavidRoss]

Meanwhile, I had more capacity remaining on the Sansa Fuze than I had thought, so in the past week I've gone ahead and loaded it with:

Sibelius, seven symphonies, The Oceanides & Tapiola (Helsinki Phil, Berglund)
Berlioz, L'enfance du Christ (BSO, Munch) . . . the first Berlioz I've loaded!
Shostakovich, Two Pieces after Scarlatti for wind band (Rozhdestvensky conducting)
Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine (Boston Baroque, Marty Pearlman)
Frank Zappa, One Size Fits All
Penguin Café Orchestra, the second album (called Penguin Café Orchestra)
Peter Gabriel, So
Assorted Mannheim Steamroller Christmas bits
The Beatles, Revolver
The Beatles, The Beatles
The Beatles, Mono Masters plus a couple of stereo Past Masters
The Bobs, My, I'm Large
Cat Stevens, The Very Best of
Gidon Kremer & al., Hommage à Piazzolla
Scelsi, Natura renovatur (Frances-Marie Uitti, vc, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen)
Hovhaness, Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra & Other Works

. . . and I've still got a little room yet.  Having great fun with this.

In fact, I have an idea that the first albums I "ripped" were at a too-rich rate . . . I suppose I could make some more room without sacrifice, by going back and re-ripping some eight CDs which were the first I ever loaded.

Annie gave me an 8GB Sansa clip.  I added an 8GB memory card.  Sounds surprising good with stock earbuds. Have reripped a lot of stuff at LAME vbr max 240 and sounds fine for the purpose. Holds a lot at that rate!  Hadn't thought of Hovhaness or Berlioz--will do, thanks!

[mahler10th]

Well, there is only one thing worse than being talked about and that's not being talked about.  I was exchanging a few words in a private email with another member, so I was indeed talking about you!
I thought it might be worth repeating here, so you know who is doing the talking, what they're saying, and indeed if its worth anything.

"Now then.  I listened to Karls work, then viewed the 'the video'.  Then I read your highly technical reviews which made me want to get my recorder out and start all over again.  Karls work, these three pieces, are better than anything I've heard by him before, gone is the idea of a struggling composer publishing stuff - with his Viola sonata I think he has 'come of age', and the sound and sonorities he has developed are now more plain than ever.  By plain, of course, I mean plain in the sense that we can hear them, we know what the Karl Henning 'sound' is now.
Very good.  I have a good mind to send his score to 'the merkers' in Vienna, see what they make of it."

[karlhenning]

Many thanks, O talker! : )

[karlhenning]

Return of "The Worst Viola Sonata in the World"?

Just heard from Dana, who is planning to be in Boston sometime in April. We are beginning to scheme a Boston première of the Opus 102.

[DavidRoss]

Return of "The Worst Viola Sonata in the World"?

Just heard from Dana, who is planning to be in Boston sometime in April. We are beginning to scheme a Boston première of the Opus 102.

Terrific!

[greg]

Return of "The Worst Viola Sonata in the World"?

Man, you should totally have that its official subtitle. Instead of "The Great," "The Unfinished," "Resurrection," you can have "The Worst Viola Sonata in the World." Hehe 

[mahler10th]

I think its great to have one of the USA's most unique classical voices in this forum.  It is great also that he unselfishly distributes his creations so we can hear them.  I had a look through Karls Blog, and man, it is quite a goldmine.
I recently compiled a Disc for selfish gratification of some recent and contemporary music.
John Adams, James MacMillan, Kacheli, Part, Messiaen  , and Tan Dun are on it.  And by all the Boston Celtics, I put Hennings Viola Concerto on it too.

(Copyright Disclaimer:  On disc for personal listening.  Not for Third Parties, which is unlikely anyway as I never get invited to any parties, anywhere, ever. )

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I have finally come round to listening to the Viola Sonata. And what a substantive piece it is! There is so much going on, only one hearing isn't enough... So, I have downloaded the score to read along when I listen to it a second time later today. I'll save reading Cato's analysis for later, just trusting to this brain and these ears.

One thing - I was reminded of Hartmann in the unaccompanied opening of Suspension Bridge (beginning of the Third Symphony, to be precise; even a Hartmann-esque 'curl' at the end of the melody was there (ms. 5/6 & 172)). The Viola Sonata is serious business, indeed. I can sense its unity more than I could describe it at the moment...

And that's all I have to offer for now!
A Boston première would be great and wholly deserved.

[karlhenning]

Many thanks, lads!

[karlhenning]

Back soon.

[greg]

And by all the Boston Celtics, I put Hennings Viola Concerto on it too.

Kendrick Perkins approves!!!!! 


(even if you can't tell by looking...)

[karlhenning]

Looks like Easter weekend. Still working on it.

[karlhenning]

http://henningmusick.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-paths.html

[karlhenning]

There hasn't been much in the way of genuine news for quite a spell . . . but today my publisher tells me that he is planning to have a Lux Nova presence at a flute fair later this very month, so we're working on having demo copies of The Angel Who Bears a Flaming Sword (both C flute and alto flute versions), the Opus 97 fl/cl duets, and possibly even stars & guitars to display there.

[karlhenning]

There may be more astronomical applications presently.