Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

I shall need to "reverse engineer" my arrangement of I Want Jesus to Walk With Me so that it is clear of any copyright infringement.  I actually find that a stimulating challenge.

[Karl Henning]

An agreeable challenge, and I certainly see the commutual interest in the principle.  Some of it is a textual matter, some of it may be harmonic;  and I am ready to mull upon and address those matters.  Rhythmically, my piece is already at a tidy remove.

[Karl Henning]

Done! And I like it.

Esteemed colleagues have already remarked enthusiastically about the versions for flute and violin.

[Cato]

Esteemed colleagues have already remarked enthusiastically about the versions for flute and violin.

Always a good sign! 

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[bigshot]

Hi! I just thought I would pop my head in Henning's Hindquarters and say hello.

Hello!

[jochanaan]

Done! And I like it.

Looking...

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, jo!

[jochanaan]

Don't thank me yet.  I haven't gotten around to trying to play it!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks even just for the look!

[Karl Henning]

Peer response to the Op.126 № 3.

[Cato]

Peer response to the Op.126 № 3.

Excellent news!

[Karl Henning]

I've not yet heard from the cellist, but my expectation there is good.

[Gurn Blanston]

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I'm enjoying my copy. I tried sight-singing it last night; I hope it actually sounds better than that...   

I expect I will get it signed by the composer and frame it on the wall, in lieu of a Haydn autograph....   0:)

[Karl Henning]

The sound is always roughest at the first rehearsal!

[Karl Henning]

From the Ministry of Cool & Unexpected:

This past Veterans' Day, the choir directed by a friend of a friend sang the Song of Remembrance. There is video;  will share it ere long.

[Karl Henning]

And there may be a reading of Moonrise down Georgia way, after all.

[Karl Henning]

A Wooster classmate passed this along to me:  http://wastelandmusic.org/call-for-scores/

[Karl Henning]

There can be up to 2 submissions per composer.

And there must be recordings!  So I think I shall submit Plotting (y is the new x) and Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels.

[Karl Henning]

On second thought, since Emmalee & Paul's performance of Plotting is so good, I'll swap The Mousetrap in for that 'un.

The score must be "anonymized" ... so I may need to do up a Sibelius edition.

There's no hurry, and I have The Mysterious Fruit to continue.  Then, too ... it may be that preparing the new edition of The Mousetrap will clear up the pipes, and The Mysterious Fruit will emerge more efficiently as a result.  I shall see how I feel this evening ....

[Karl Henning]

The Mousetrap I originally prepared in Finale;  the process of creating a fresh Sibelius edition looks to be a job of 3-4 days (two of them done).  Overall, it is music I am deeply proud to have written.  I am thinking of making a couple of phrase-connections a little less rushed, inserting a couple of measures here, a couple there;  I do not want to lose the measure numbers as a check while I am plugging notes in, though, so I have left (verbal) notes that I can go back to.  Not surprisingly, one of those places I have in mind, was a frustratingly rapid page-turn for the clarinetist   


I'm also making a slight reduction of the tempo marking for "the unison dance" official . . . I suppose that instead of [quarter-note] = 120, I could mark it "112-120" rather than just ratchet down to 112 . . . leave it to other performers who perhaps can fly at the original tempo.  Lord knows, 112 does not feel lazy . . . .