Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, jo!  And do I have an e-mail address for you?

[North Star]

Planning any cat organ pieces, Karl?

[Karl Henning]

Karlo, YHM

[Wanderer]

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!

I can't wait to hear a recording of this. May it be forthcoming. 

[Karl Henning]

Tasos, I have a passable mp3 . . . do I have an e-mail address for you? (I forget . . . .)

[Wanderer]

Tasos, I have a passable mp3 . . . do I have an e-mail address for you? (I forget . . . .)

Splendid! You have PM.

[TheGSMoeller]

Quijote is a Henning classic, I assure you all. 

[Karl Henning]

As I wrote earlier . . . I remember being proud of the piece when it was freshly composed, and this task of re-scoring the texture has reawakened that memory. Though I'm the one who says it, the piece is smokin'.  0:)

[Karl Henning]

Okay, split the score in twain in order to have files small enow to attach . . . .

Part 1 (mm. 1 - 99)

[Karl Henning]

Part 2 (mm. 100 - 383)

[Gurn Blanston]

As I wrote earlier . . . I remember being proud of the piece when it was freshly composed, and this task of re-scoring the texture has reawakened that memory. Though I'm the one who says it, the piece is smokin'.  0:)

Not excessively clangorous by any means. It sounds très moderne yet without that occasionally disagreeable (to me) aspect to it. Being midi makes for a challenge; is it a quintet for piano and winds? I suppose you must have said so in here, but I am too time-short to check right now. IN any case, very nice!

[Karl Henning]

. . . is it a quintet for piano and winds?

Pierrot ensemble (fl/cl/vn/vc/pf) plus (i.e., percussion). Thanks for giving it a go, O Gurn!

[Gurn Blanston]

Pierrot ensemble (fl/cl/vn/vc/pf) plus (i.e., percussion). Thanks for giving it a go, O Gurn!

My pleasure, actually. I played it twice!     I've never been able to discern instrumental intent from a midi though...

[Karl Henning]

Twice (and in MIDI)! This Henning is honored  0:)

[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 . . . .

Don't know just yet when they will become available, but there will be audio. And possibly video!

[jochanaan]

As I wrote earlier . . . I remember being proud of the piece when it was freshly composed, and this task of re-scoring the texture has reawakened that memory. Though I'm the one who says it, the piece is smokin'.  0:)

Well, you're not the only one who thinks so!

[Karl Henning]

That, of course, is the key! 

[Karl Henning]

Making good progress on the new, regrettably non-music, piece for percussion ensemble, My Island Home. Haven't decided yet whether it will be a six- or an eight-minute piece . . . basically discovering it day by day.

[ file of older version removed ]

[Karl Henning]

At long last . . . the clarinet/marimba duet is finished:

[Cato]

At long last . . . the clarinet/marimba duet is finished:

That is some fun and funky stuff there!   0:)