Henning's Headquarters

[TheGSMoeller]

Watch This Space

Hoping it includes the word "Atlanta".

[Karl Henning]

Close: Annabel

[Cato]

Watch This Space

Anybody got any eyedrops?

[Karl Henning]

Yow! Just about ready! No, really!

[Karl Henning]

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http://www.youtube.com/v/tN3aMOrzEb8

[kishnevi]

Ah, very well done indeed!

[Karl Henning]

Thank you, sir!

[Karl Henning]

Moving on to the next stanza of The Mystic Trumpeter: "...thy liquid prelude, glad, serene...."

[Karl Henning]

Okay, the Sibelius file has now caught up with my paper MS.:

[ file of older version removed ]

[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

Organ Sonata, Op.108 :: Mvt 2, . . . scientes bonum . . .

Organ Sonata, Op.108 :: Mvt 3, . . . et malum

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

Thoreau in Concord Jail, Op.109 for clarinet solo

http://www.youtube.com/v/iDY7Dc41vL0

Airy Distillates, Op.110 for flute solo

Annabel Lee, Op.111 for vocal quartet

http://www.youtube.com/v/tN3aMOrzEb8

Misapprehension, Op.112 for clarinet choir

The Mystic Trumpeter, Op.113 for soprano & clarinet [work-in-progress]

Henningmusick at ReverbNation.

Henningmusick at Instant Encore.

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

[Karl Henning]

This here Trumpeter has been bustling along at something of a business-like pace (the piece, I mean, not so much its composition).  So on reaching the text:

A holy calm descends like dew upon me,
I walk in cool refreshing night the walks of Paradise [....]

. . . I had a sudden sense of easing the pace, of trying my hand at some lyrical setting.  I set that part of the text yesterday morning on the train.  That is, I wrote the soprano line . . . I need to reflect on how I quite want the clarinet to accompany, there.

Yesterday, at lunch-time, I had not at all planned to leave my air-conditioned coccoon, but the fancy struck me of taking my notebook out to the park, to sit on a bench and perhaps inscribe a quaver or three.  When I got to the park, though, sounds of a flute wafted across the grass, and I thought, that sounds like my buddy Peter, doesn't it?

The really funny thing is, not only had I not planned to be in that place at that time, Peter was subbing for a violinist who had canceled.  It was a warm, and rather sticky day, but Peter was pacing himself for the marathon (two hours, and just he and his flute, no accompaniment).  It's the first we had laid eyes one on another since he and Becky came to hear Annabel Lee at the Armory in Somerville; and yesterday he had warmly congratulatiry words for that occasion, which I forbear to repeat for fear of appearing boastful.

He asked what I was up to, and I mentioned The Mystic Trumpeter, and also that (as I shan't know quite how long the piece will be for a little while yet) I might need his musical assistance at King's Chapel on 8 October; he has generously signed on.

It was only this morning that I folded the new-written soprano line into the Sibelius file, but that was well, as it got musical neurons firing.  Not only did I write out the rest of the soprano line for that stanza, but I also received inspiration for the change of musical character for the next.

[Karl Henning]

The latest:

[ file of older version removed ]

[TheGSMoeller]

The latest:

Very cool, Karl. Thanks for posting. 

[Karl Henning]

The practice I seem to have settled into over the last couple of pages is, write the voice line (and perhaps the entire stanza), and add the clarinet after.

Blow again trumpeter! and for my sensuous eyes,
Bring the old pageants, show the feudal world.
What charm thy music works! thou makest pass before me,
Ladies and cavaliers long dead [....]

The italicized incipit, I had scrawled at the time of the latest check-in; the rest I drew up over lunch today.

[Cato]

The practice I seem to have settled into over the last couple of pages is, write the voice line (and perhaps the entire stanza), and add the clarinet after.

The italicized incipit, I had scrawled at the time of the latest check-in; the rest I drew up over lunch today.

Having followed the score's development, I can attest that the integration of the voice with the clarinet is masterful.  So keep up the good music!   

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!

More work laid in on this morning's train ride.

... barons are in their castle halls,
the troubadours are singing,
Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs ....

Curiously, the shade of Carl Orff is lingering nearby, and almost before I was aware of it, I am incorporating a motif associated with his most famous film score oratorio.

[Karl Henning]

Well, I reached the end of the stanza, with the voice line anyway. May of course adjust here and there. I have had ideas for the accompanying clarinet bubbling in the back of my mind as I pursued this line . . . may be Sunday before I can clear the decks, to attend to that task.  And in the meanwhile, chances are I shall start with the voice line for / determining the overall character of the following stanza ("the love song").

[Cato]

Well, I reached the end of the stanza, with the voice line anyway. May of course adjust here and there. I have had ideas for the accompanying clarinet bubbling in the back of my mind as I pursued this line . . . may be Sunday before I can clear the decks, to attend to that task.  And in the meanwhile, chances are I shall start with the voice line for / determining the overall character of the following stanza ("the love song").

I almost thought the clarinet would be bubbling with Lawrence Welk music!   

But then I read the line more carefully!   

Great to hear that things are progressing!

[Karl Henning]

No! Ideas bubbling, not the clarinet!  And I have the beakers to prove it!

[Cato]

No! Ideas bubbling, not the clarinet!  And I have the beakers to prove it!

Wocka Wocka!   

Speaking of a Beaker:

http://www.youtube.com/v/hA4TiL9L0hc