Henning's Headquarters

[TheGSMoeller]

About to break for lunch . . .

I always enjoy browsing through the Headquarters, even better that I know you're taking lunch breaks. 
Keep on, Karl!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!  Got some more sketching done on this morning's bus . . . my church choir resumes rehearsal this Thursday evening (so that's a night I cannot devote to Admee), but the Saturday rehearsal for Triad has wound up canceled (too many anticipated absentees).  So I am determined to get this wrapped up, to have a finished score (and parts) out to the crew Sunday evening the 13^th.

[Karl Henning]

Counting, also, on Brian getting this job, so that he can collar their Artistic Director and promote Henningmusick 

[Karl Henning]

Peter H. Bloom (bass flute & picc.) confirms that he is in — but I knew I could count on him first of all, bless him.

Of course, I sent my message with a substantial score attached on Labor Day evening, so I do not expect to hear from everyone straight off.  Mostly, I'm hoping that Evelyn is not affrighted by the challenge;  the fact that the concert is seven weeks from today helps, in being both time long enough that there is room for preparation, and time short enough that a quick-but-serious study of the score-in-progress should commend itself to our fearless singer.

My other, lesser concern (lesser, only because as yet, I trust my musical instincts) is that I haven't written anything technically onerous for (in score order) Carol, Dan or Pam.  I know Dan can handle all of the rhythms I throw at him, and I think everything I've written for the recorder is readily idiomatic . . . there is a chance that he could manage more chromaticism than I've slung his way, but I've found it an engaging challenge to keep the recorder relatively diatonic.  I know that Carol is a flute student of Peter's, and I do not think I've written too virtuosic a flute part (unlike some of Peter's bass flute passages).

Evelyn is in!

[Karl Henning]

Another piece for the King's Chapel concert is a piece our own sananton' has written for Peter & me to play with fixed media;  Peter & I have scheduled our first rehearsal with this 'un, this coming Monday evening.

[Karl Henning]

Carol is in . . . I saw Dan this past weekend, and I am 97.5% certain that if for any reason he had "become unavailable," he would have chimed in hastily.

Just in case there is something funny with Pam's e-mail, I shall just give her a call in a bit.

[Cato]

Thanks!  Got some more sketching done on this morning's bus . . . my church choir resumes rehearsal this Thursday evening (so that's a night I cannot devote to Admee)...

In the novel, upon which the lyrics are based, the teller of the tale is a certain Professor Admee.

If you have been following the progress here, I would especially like to draw attention to Letter J in the score, bars 118 ff., where Karl uses a chant-like, trance-like atmosphere for the singer.  And mark the unsettling accompaniment: occasional consonances contrasting with a multitude of askew dissonances. 

[Karl Henning]

The parallelisms there are a sort of organ mixtur 

[Cato]

The parallelisms there are a sort of organ mixtur 

I like that!   

Also Letter N and the bars afterward for the instruments are very evocative: they at times form an aural web attempting to ensnare the soprano, so to speak.

[Karl Henning]

I'll call this exactly the quantity of progress I hoped to accomplish today.

[Karl Henning]

p.26 is a transposition of earlier material, but I am not sure I like the transposition . . . I may just restore the original pitch-center.

[Karl Henning]

Some more work on the bus this morning. Sorted out the transposition matter to my entire satisfaction.

[Karl Henning]

The day's work reflected now in Sibelius.  If I can take care of the next five lines of text tonight, I shall be content.

[Karl Henning]

The day's work reflected now in Sibelius.  If I can take care of the next five lines of text tonight, I shall be content.

And lo! I brought my wish to pass . . .


(Definitely finishing this Saturday.)

[Karl Henning]

Can only be absent-mindedness . . . did I really skip Op.133, or did I start some piece, and I've forgotten?

My money is on absent-mindedly skipped . . . .

[jochanaan]

Can only be absent-mindedness . . . did I really skip Op.133, or did I start some piece, and I've forgotten?

My money is on absent-mindedly skipped . . . .

Is it a Great Fugue?

[kishnevi]

Is it a Great Fugue?

More likely with Karl,  a string quartet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._12_(Shostakovich)

(Excellent pun, btw)

[Karl Henning]

Indeed!

[Karl Henning]

Basically, poised to finish this up by lunchtime tomorrow.

[Karl Henning]

At the moment, just a few refinements at various points, including the 'end' of the present sketch, which reflects the transition to the closing section which occurred to me just this morning.  (And while I'll gab more about it later, similarly, the Risoluto material at [ Y ] really only came to me the morning of the day I wrote it.)