Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

BTW, I've decided there will be a tam-tam stroke, the first ever yet in a Henning score!

[jochanaan]

Score in C!

Ah, that explains everything.

BTW, I've decided there will be a tam-tam stroke, the first ever yet in a Henning score!

Just don't turn it into The Gong Show!

[Karl Henning]

Chuffing along (still no tam-tam -- yet)

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[Karl Henning]

Seems that an order has been placed for Out in the Sun!

[Sergeant Rock]

BTW, I've decided there will be a tam-tam stroke, the first ever yet in a Henning score!

Trying to influence the Hurwitzer? 

Sarge

[Cato]

Seems that an order has been placed for Out in the Sun!

For those newer GMG members, Out in the Sun is an A+++ work!

[Karl Henning]

Trying to influence the Hurwitzer? 

Sarge

An old high school classmate made the inevitable more cowbell remark . . . so in his honor, there will be the single stroke of a cowbell . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Think I'm going to call it quits for tonight . . . here I've just gotten the intro to the balletto quasi uno flamenco section:

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[Karl Henning]

Some progress today . . . just takes some doing.  Still, it's going quicker than it did in Finale, and I see wrong notes in the PDF from the original Finale version, and I am jiggered how those bad notes got in there.

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[Karl Henning]

All right . . . just had a most interesting e-mail exchange with Heinrich.  It was That Time Again, and I requested an October 2014 date for the King's Chapel series.  But I thought, Heinrich has a paid, professional choir at his beck and call . . . .

So I asked him, "If there were a Henning piece which you would consider leading your choir in . . . what would such a piece look like?"

Turned out that he has more than once thought of the SATTB Love is the spirit which I wrote for Paul's choir (for in our day, King's Chapel is a Unitarian congregation), only the divided tenors gave him pause.

To cut to the chase, I've now sent him the Kyrie, and we shall see . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Now, I don't absolutely know that Heinrich is interested in the Kyrie . . . but he did ask if there were a Sanctus and an Agnus Dei to match . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Okay, our Heinrich does like the Kyrie, but . . . wants more:

We do communion the first Sunday of the month. I always use a Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus for those, plus sometimes additional movements, largely depending on duration.

So a lone Kyrie doesn't make so much sense for us.

[jochanaan]

An old high school classmate made the inevitable more cowbell remark . . . so in his honor, there will be the single stroke of a cowbell . . . .

Just hope it doesn't become a clunker!

[Karl Henning]

Just hope it doesn't become a clunker!

Curiously, one does not find cowbell in the percussion instruments in Sibelius . . . from what I have found, I selected "salsa bell."  It will get the message across (I expect I could "hide" that text, and add "cowbell" as text to keep the score clear).

[jochanaan]

Curiously, one does not find cowbell in the percussion instruments in Sibelius . . .

That's a serious lack, which should be rectified by the makers of Sibelius ASAP.  (For a moment I thought you were referring to the collected works of Jean Sibelius! )

[Karl Henning]

Really a peculiar thing to need to work around!

[Karl Henning]

At tonight's rehearsal, we'll have a go at my Alleluia in D, the original two-part choir version. Funny thing, I can still remember the mornings I was composing the piece, riding the #354 bus....

[Karl Henning]

Okay, the news is:  I have finished the new scoring for Counting Sheep (or, The Dreamy Abacus of Don Quijote).

But, the PDF of the score is too large a file to attach to a GMG message.  Anyone who wishes a perusal, PM me.

And (as I remarked off-line to our Cato) . . . perhaps that tam-tam started out in part as a joke, but I found the perfect spot for my first-ever tam-tam stroke.  They are already calling it The most auspicious percussion of 2013!

[Karl Henning]

The Reinhardt University Percussion Ensemble begin rehearsing Journey to the Dayspring.  Director Olivia Kieffer writes, Everyone likes your piece.

This is tonight! Anyone by chance going?

Sarge seemed to suggest that Sean might . . . .

[jochanaan]

This is tonight! Anyone by chance going?

Sarge seemed to suggest that Sean might . . . .

It'd be a long commute from Denver! If I were in the area, I'd definitely go.