Henning's Headquarters

[jochanaan]

Well, if these ol' clarinets could talk . . . .

They do, through tone.

[Karl Henning]

 0:)


Had lunch with Susan Clearman and Mark Gresham.  Susan was in Boston when we first met, and she joined us as organist for part of the year when I served as Interim Choir Director at the Cathedral Church of St Paul in Boston.  My publisher, Mark is a fellow composer, and one of the pieces performed at Eyedrum last night was his Vagabond Drumming, Book IV for two percussionists.  You know it's a good lunch when you see that it's three o'clock, and you wonder how it got so late.


One compositional result:  I told them the story behind Le tombeau de W.A.G. ("Don't quit your day job"), and Mark wants a version for two tenor and one bass trombone.  Done.

[Karl Henning]

Silver Lining Dept.

Although circs. have resulted in Tim Phillips's not (yet?) playing just what everyone was expecting (which I wrote for him, actually), it seems he may know a soprano for (presumably) an Alabama performance of The Mystic Trumpeter!

[Karl Henning]

Met a bassist last night and sent him the score of Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels today.

[Karl Henning]

Hey! An acknowledgement.

[TheGSMoeller]

Hey! An acknowledgement.

+1 Very nice, Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Acknowledgment #2

[Karl Henning]

Composed Tiny Wild Avocado N° 5 while flying back to Boston from Atlanta: making the airlines work for me!

[Karl Henning]

+1 Very nice, Karl.

Sorry we didn't meet up! Next time, I shall hope.

[TheGSMoeller]

Sorry we didn't meet up! Next time, I shall hope.

Yes, absolutely. Between a sore throat and wrong airport days, I failed. 
But I'm very glad your Atlanta trip went well.

[Karl Henning]

Overall, an excellent and productive visit. And one bonus: There is a recording of the Eyedrum concert!

[Karl Henning]

My wife has requested that the set be extended to seven Avocadoes, so this the fifth is the latest but not the last!

[Karl Henning]

Hey, You Never Know Dept.:

Sent Moonrise to a So Carolina trumpeter I just "met" via Facebook.

[Cato]

My wife has requested that the set be extended to seven Avocadoes, so this the fifth is the latest but not the last!

Will there be paintings to accompany the seven?  0:)

[Karl Henning]

Hmmm . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Well, I was just preparing a one-page edition of He Is Born (Il est né) for my choir.

[Karl Henning]

Hey! The pianist whom I met a week ago yesterday is allowing me to send her Plotting.

—Did I mention that one of the last things I did in Atlanta, before powering down the notebook to pack for the flight back to Boston, was a piano version of Plotting (y is the new x)?

[Karl Henning]

Like no Avocado of this world . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Benefiting both from the Marimba Tutorial with Sylvie, and from the experience of playing just what everyone was expecting with Olivia, I got back to work (on this morning's bus ride) at setting Cato's The Mysterious Fruit.

[Karl Henning]

Didn't want to double-post an image, so here's a link.