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[jochanaan]

And what better title for a piece whose première will be April 15^th?  This will be the flute, clarinet, double-bass & frame drum quartet.

LOL!!

[Cato]

All kinds of activity in the next months!

Quote from: karlhenning on February 03, 2014, 09:52:18 AM

    An old Wooster friend posts about having at last emerged from the throes of a bad divorce.  I told her I'm going to borrow a phrase for a title:  Dysfunction and Outright Extortion.

And what better title for a piece whose première will be April 15th?  This will be the flute, clarinet, double-bass & frame drum quartet.

For the non-Americans here, April 15th is traditionally "Income Tax Day."     

Oh!  And on the train this morning, I started drawing up the bari sax accompaniment to The Crystalline Ship. Molto fluido is what I am thinking . . . .

That makes sense of course!     I like the Adagio tempo.

[Karl Henning]

The Crystalline Ship will go on March 14, 2014, at 8:00 pm, Church of the Advent Library Concert Series (we aren't on the website yet, but shall be!)

[Karl Henning]

Slightly revised, and this is the score the choir will read from.

[Karl Henning]

I am still juggling bells.  It's funny that this aspect of the task is the most work . . . an engaging puzzle, though.

[Karl Henning]

Lo! The Squirrels in their fullness.

[Karl Henning]

a colleague in southern New Hampshire who has a weekly radio show has invited me to go into the studio this coming Sunday (9 Feb), so for anyone interested there will be Henningmusick on the air at (I believe, and I shall confirm or emend this) 15:00 Chowder Time.


And, aye, they stream on the web.

[petrarch]

I am still juggling bells.  It's funny that this aspect of the task is the most work . . . an engaging puzzle, though.

Clochette, que me veux-tu?

[Karl Henning]

Hah!

[Cato]

a colleague in southern New Hampshire who has a weekly radio show has invited me to go into the studio this coming Sunday (9 Feb), so for anyone interested there will be Henningmusick on the air at (I believe, and I shall confirm or emend this) 15:00 Chowder Time.


And, aye, they stream on the web.

Great news!  Is this a private station or NPR?

And "juggling bells" is right: notating a handbell choir must be similar to writing the notes of an arpeggio individually on separate sheets of paper!

Or am I not imagining the process correctly? 

[Karl Henning]

Quite close . . . all the ringers read from the score, so they know what's going on around them, and I highlight the notes that they ring.

Before I get there, though, I have to make sure either that each ringer only has two bells to mind, or time to switch to and from a third (and even, at times, a fourth . . . .)

[Karl Henning]

Success!

My original draught required 25 bells, which might require up to 12 ringers.  I have at most 11, and one of this tale of 11 has gone on vacation — all of which is to say that 25 was probably impossible.  However, the loss of four of the bells actually clarified some of the chord voicings.

So: 21 bells.  The three lowest of the bells are actually quite readily managed by a single (strong-armed) ringer;  and two of the higher bells are used quite seldom.  With judicious distribution, the tweaked arrangement is readily manageable by 9 ringers, who are all given a reasonable amount of employment.

I did want to get this wrapped up, so that I can have the choral score in the folders for tomorrow evening's rehearsal.

Now, to mark out the bell parts for the bell rehearsal after church this Sunday . . . .

[Mirror Image]

Just listened to Jazz For Nostalgic Squirrels, Op. 117. This is a funky little hairball. I dug it, Karl. Very nice job!

[Karl Henning]

Thank you!

[Mirror Image]

Thank you!

You're welcome. All the best to you and yours.

[Karl Henning]

Choir rehearsal tonight.  We should be able to get the Alleluia in D fit for this coming Sunday's use;  and I have the choral scores ready for my arrangement of Divinum mysterium, which of course should prove no difficulty at all.

[Karl Henning]

a colleague in southern New Hampshire who has a weekly radio show has invited me to go into the studio this coming Sunday (9 Feb), so for anyone interested there will be Henningmusick on the air at (I believe, and I shall confirm or emend this) 15:00 Chowder Time.


And, aye, they stream on the web.

Tomorrow!

[Karl Henning]

Well, I certainly had a good time.

[Cato]

Well, I certainly had a good time.

Is it possible to hear it post facto?  Because of weather I had to be on the road, and could not hear it on-line.

Or is there a transcript? 

[Karl Henning]

Ah'm a-checkin' on whether it was recorded.