Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Okay, just a little modification, and I do think she's done.

(The title would be much less mysterious for want of the word like: I see people walking about trees . . . .)

[Karl Henning]

Cato has brought to my attention an odd artifact... an ottava which refers to a clarinet cue in the bass part.....

[Karl Henning]

(The title would be much less mysterious for want of the word like: I see people walking about trees . . . .)

Or the addition of the word who: I see people walking about who like trees . . . .

[Karl Henning]

I found a typo in the clarinet part, as well: The B^b (written) on the first beat of m. 20 is correct;  for the very last note of the measure, that sixteenth-note ought to cancel the flat for a B-natural.

[Karl Henning]

Okay, I've heard from Dan, and he, too, is rarin' to go.

[Cato]

(The title would be much less mysterious for want of the word like: I see people walking about trees . . . .)

Or the addition of the word who: I see people walking about who like trees . . . .

Of course, even more mysterious would be:

I See Trees Walking Around Like People. 

[Karl Henning]

The violinist who will be playing Plotting (she and Paul begin rehearsing together this Friday) on her doctoral recital:

http://www.youtube.com/v/jjL7drcdGfo

[Karl Henning]

And, for the Zowie factor:  can you believe that this handheld video of the Burial section from the St John Passion, Op.92 has been viewed 350 times?

http://www.youtube.com/v/8netMuAHFkI

[Karl Henning]

How fortunate a composer, to know so many fine musicians who are keen to play a new piece . . . Peter, Charles & Dan have all checked in, and the first rehearsal of I see people walking about like trees will be this coming Tuesday at seventeen-hundred.

[Mirror Image]

And, for the Zowie factor:  can you believe that this handheld video of the Burial section from the St John Passion, Op.92 has been viewed 350 times?

http://www.youtube.com/v/8netMuAHFkI

Not hard to believe for me, Karl, it's gorgeous music.

[Karl Henning]

Thank you.

Only a rehearsal this evening, but I have the HMMCU all charged up in hopes of capturing The Crystalline Ship as D'Anna & Peter practice in Harvard Square this afternoon.

Heinrich is having his choir sing a variety of settings of For God so loved the world during Lent, and has invited me to send him something.  I started sketching yesterday, but perhaps I am distracted . . . didn't feel I was going anywhere.  I've had the idea of adapting the Nunc dimittis from of old to this text . . . started scrawling that over lunch today.

[Karl Henning]

Rehearsal at the Friends Meeting in Cambridge (which is not tonight's concert space . . . but a nice space!) went very well.  I did not record the rehearsal, but the battery remains fully charged for tonight's concert!

D'Anna asked me about the text, because she seemed to wonder if her interpretation was correct. I replied that one of the things which attracted me to the text was its fruitful ambivalence, and that if her interpretation differed from mine, probably hers was every bit as good . . . so: They got nothing from me! Ah-ha!

[Cato]

Rehearsal at the Friends Meeting in Cambridge (which is not tonight's concert space . . . but a nice space!) went very well.  I did not record the rehearsal, but the battery remains fully charged for tonight's concert!

D'Anna asked me about the text, because she seemed to wonder if her interpretation was correct. I replied that one of the things which attracted me to the text was its fruitful ambivalence, and that if her interpretation differed from mine, probably hers was every bit as good . . . so: They got nothing from me! Ah-ha!

Excellent phrase!

The excitement builds!  I hope there is a large audience!

[Karl Henning]

It's a reasonably well established series. I shall report, and soon!

[Karl Henning]

I'm a little early... greetings from Charles Street!

[Karl Henning]

And now for something completely different: a baritone saxophone on a stage (in a church).

[Karl Henning]

The curator of this concert series at Advent, Matt Samolis, recorded the concert, and his recording will be better.  But I did record The Crystalline Ship with mine own handheld device, and I'll make it available tomorrow.

[Cato]

The curator of this concert series at Advent, Matt Samolis, recorded the concert, and his recording will be better.  But I did record The Crystalline Ship with mine own handheld device, and I'll make it available tomorrow.

Great!  We assume everything went splendidly!

[Karl Henning]

Beautifully and musically . . . but presently, you may hear for yourself

[Karl Henning]

(I am even now listening to the audio for the first time . . . .)