Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Many thanks, Johnnie!

[Florestan]

And, lo!

http://www.youtube.com/v/OQHIDzVD2yY

Bravo, maestro! You really have a way with choral music. I remember a piece of yours based on some Syriac plainchant in honor of the Virgin Mary (if I'm not mistaken) that gave me goosebumps when first hearing it. Keep up the good work!

[Sergeant Rock]

Stunningly beautiful, Karl. I had to download the video (fairly good quality 720p mp4)...it's on repeat now.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Thank you heartily, dear friends!

[Karl Henning]

Re-post & refresh:

Timbrel and Dance, Op.73 [ St Paul's choir plus ].

26 February De profundis [ Jaya Lakshminarayan & friends ]

15 March Passion rehearsal A [ Sine Nomine ]

15 March Passion rehearsal B [ Sine Nomine ]

15 March Passion rehearsal C [ Sine Nomine ]

12 May recital [ k a rl h e nn i ng Ensemble (Bloom/Henning/Cienniwa) ]

18 May recital [ Bloom/Henning ]

23 May pre-concert rehearsal [ Sine Nomine ]

22 June recital [ N. Chamberlain/B. Chamberlain/Henning ]

Score of The Wind, the Sky, & the Wheeling Stars, Part I

Score of The Wind, the Sky, & the Wheeling Stars, Part II

Love is the spirit of this church, Op.85 № 3

The Passion According to St John, Op.92 (on MediaFire, courtesy of Johan)

Lutosawski's Lullaby, Op.96a № 1 (string quartet)

Marginalia, Op.96a № 2 (string quartet)

Après-lullaby, Op.96a № 3 (string quartet)

Score of Fair Warning [Viola Sonata, mvt 1]

MIDI of Fair Warning [Viola Sonata, mvt 1]

Score of Suspension Bridge (In Daves Shed) [Viola Sonata, mvt 2]

MIDI of Suspension Bridge (In Daves Shed) [Viola Sonata, mvt 2]

Score of Tango in Boston (Dances with Shades) [Viola Sonata, mvt 3]

MIDI of Tango in Boston (Dances with Shades) [Viola Sonata, mvt 3]

Johan's MediaFire folder, including the whole of Dana's première performance of the Viola Sonata

These Unlikely Events, Op.104 № 4

These Unlikely Events, Op.104 № 5

Kyrie, Op.106 № 1

Organ Sonata, Op.108 :: Mvt 1, Eritis sicut Deus

In the Artist's Studio, work-in-progress

Airy Distillates, Op.110

Henningmusick at ReverbNation.

Henningmusick at Instant Encore.

And about an hour's worth of Henningmusick, too, at SoundCloud.

[Karl Henning]

. . . I just wrote to Karl: the tenor at 2:29ff. and that bass voice for the final Amen were really striking. 

I sang bass for most of the program. Since my own piece was SATTB, though, here I was one of the two on Tenors II. I blush to acknowledge that I was part of singing that line.

James Liu has quite a dependable low C, and it was at first a semi-lark on his part in rehearsal; but he asked the composer's leave, which I full well granted.

[Karl Henning]

And... to-morrow is Classical Revolution Detroit. I wonder if the Op.96a will go on?...

Fingers still crossed!

. . . I am seriously thinking of a new clarinet unaccompanied piece, and there is ample time to get the chops back in fighting trim.

Started work in earnest on this Sunday, and it's got a name: Thoreau in Concord Jail. (I was originally thinking of the spelling gaol, but I gave it over.)

During the 'process' (such as it was) of determining the title, I had completely forgotten (what I do not believe I have ever either read, nor seen staged) a play called The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

[Brian]

And, lo!

http://www.youtube.com/v/OQHIDzVD2yY

Outstanding, a beautiful work well-matched, I think, to the tone of its message.

Sarge, what program do you use to download YouTube videos?

[kishnevi]

Posted the video on my Facebook page....along with Mr. Corner's Elegy.
(I went to your blog first before here)

[Karl Henning]

Thank you both, gents!

[Brian]

Now rocking out to "Out in the Sun". Strong rhythmic profile, a great swing at times, melodic ideas which seem to be having fun with themselves, and a terrific feel for the sonority of the wind ensemble and blends of different instruments - wherever Andy is, I apologize for stealing his catchphrase, because this is JAH-min'!

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge, what program do you use to download YouTube videos?

My main, my usual browser, is Chrome but Chrome won't allow downloads at YouTube (being a Google owned website). For YouTube I use Firefox and its DownloadHelper extension. Works really well.

Sarge

[Brian]

Now rocking out to "Out in the Sun". Strong rhythmic profile, a great swing at times, melodic ideas which seem to be having fun with themselves, and a terrific feel for the sonority of the wind ensemble and blends of different instruments - wherever Andy is, I apologize for stealing his catchphrase, because this is JAH-min'!

I seem to have just listened to this twice in a row!

[Karl Henning]

Cheers, Brian! I am particularly fond of that piece.

In fact, I think that if I just immersed myself back in that piece, I should soon find myself plugging back into White Nights.

[Mirror Image]

I, too, listened to Out in the Sun. I really like this work. Great usage of all of the wind instruments. I've got to say of all the Henning works I've heard (which isn't too many) this has made the strongest impression on me so far. I like how the work develops and these motifs are repeated and played off each other. I think I'm going to listen to this one again. I've got to give the Violin Sonata a listen...

Anyway, great job, Karl!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!

More work, while riding this morning's train, on Thoreau in Concord Jail.  Part of the discipline in this piece, is to resist the tendency to be too lavish with ideas . . . instead, to find ways to "reduce, re-use, recycle" a contained repertory of ideas.

[Karl Henning]

Looks like I really oughtn't to complain, eh?—

Bruckner was sixty years old when he tasted public success for the first time.

[mahler10th]

Outstanding, a beautiful work well-matched, I think, to the tone of its message.

Sarge, what program do you use to download YouTube videos?

I use a program called Freemake Video Downloader.  It integrates with browsers, and things are fine when you refuse to install the other things it would also like you to install.  It can convert video (I don't use that function, I use something else for that) and a function for 'extracting audio only' (which I do use a lot).  It's good, I like it, but there are 'lighter' and easier programs out there that can also do the business.
I too downloaded Karls video.     And last night I downloaded Daniels Nocturne No.3 too, which is also jaw dropping.   
I fear my new moniker should be "John the Ripper".     Or "Jock the Ripper."   

* forgot to insert quote first time I posted it.    *

[Mirror Image]

Karl might scoff at my mentioning of this but I hear a Minimalism influence in Out in the Sun. Not so much in how the musical material is played but, rather, how the general mood of the work seems to be a long, emotionally-static canvas. This isn't meant as a criticism but rather that the overall direction of the work veers towards say John Adams territory. Just a thought.

[Karl Henning]

No scoffing, you're quite right.