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[Karl Henning]

On my break at the museum, I started a sketch for a short cello and piano piece, Nicodemus brings myrrh and aloes for the burial of the Christ.

[Cato]

On my break at the museum, I started a sketch for a short cello and piano piece, Nicodemus brings myrrh and aloes for the burial of the Christ.

Wonderful Title!

[Karl Henning]

Thank you!  Hope to have some new stuff to post here later today.

[Beorn]

honk honk

[Sergeant Rock]

Well, you know what Herr Doktor Freud would say about this!   

But sometimes a pen is just a pen 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

But sometimes a pen is just a pen 

Let all God's scriveners say Amen!

[springrite]

But sometimes a pen is just a pen 

Sarge

Herr Freud would likely agree.

[Karl Henning]

Here's the start:

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[Cato]

Here's the start:

The deep open fifths are sure to sound marvelous! 

A former student of mine became something of an organist, and he once played at the graduation of Mass of our high school, whose alma mater tune was the hymn-like theme from Finlandia by Sibelius.  He wanted to play it as a Communion meditation, but with "something different" for the harmonization.

I said: "How about all open fifths?"      Which he thought was a great idea, so (although I had already given up composing by that time) I cranked it out that night, and it was great fun!   0:)

[Karl Henning]

Well, the ending is much better, but it needs improvement enough that I rule that the work is yet unfinished.

The improvement, though, is sufficient, that at least I can post the draught without embarrassment:

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[Karl Henning]

(Again: sorry I neglected to "untranspose" the score . . . the clarinet line is pitched in A.)

[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]

Nicodemus brings myrrh and aloes for the burial of the Christ, Op.114 for cello & piano [work-in-progress]

Henningmusick at ReverbNation.

Henningmusick at Instant Encore.

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

[Karl Henning]

Hoping it includes the word "Atlanta".

Although honestly I am in a state of near-total doubt that anything will happen this year, my publisher suggests that something may yet be organized.

And why should my doubt be so powerful? It's still only August.

[Karl Henning]

A Bablyak original will grace this show.

More here.

[TheGSMoeller]

Although honestly I am in a state of near-total doubt that anything will happen this year, my publisher suggests that something may yet be organized.

And why should my doubt be so powerful? It's still only August.

Are there local ensembles/musicians here you know of that you might collaborate with? Now that I've been getting my ASO fix in I'm curious about chamber or modern groups around the Atlanta area.

[Karl Henning]

I think the Trumpeter has reached his final essential state!

[Karl Henning]

Okay . . . without too much trouble, the clarinet part has workable page turns.  I haven't luxuriated in cues, but when Jaya and I rehearse, I shall see if any more cues need be added.


The endgame for this piece, curiously, includes (I think, of necessity) two parallel Sibelius files: one with the clarinet line as the clarinetist will need to read in transposition;  the other, the score in C with sundry of the clarinet passages swapped into enharmonic equivalents, for the reading convenience of the singer.

[Karl Henning]

And the occasional stretch where there are so many ledger lines below the staff for the clarinet in the chalumeau register, that the C score is more legible if we cast some of the line in the bass clef (which, of course, is not how any clarinetist would read it).

[Karl Henning]

Thanks to Greg for braving the MIDI!

Just got off the phone with Jaya, who has a crazy week ahead, of rehearsals for other musicking, so it will be a while before she can look the score over;  but she told me that she is excited, and the way she said it convinces me.

[Karl Henning]

Greg, my publisher is thinking of Atlanta sopranos, so who knows?  We just may mystify in a neighborhood near you!