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[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I've had a read and a look around this thread, I am still very new here....is there a place I could listen to Henning's op. 129? I've had a look at the score and I am itching to hear it!

[North Star]

I've had a read and a look around this thread, I am still very new here....is there a place I could listen to Henning's op. 129? I've had a look at the score and I am itching to hear it!

There is some hope:

Tuesday, 27 Oct 2015
12:15PM

The k a rl h e nn i ng Ensemble

Evelyn Griffin, soprano
Carol Epple, flute
Pamela Marshall, horn
Dan Meyers, divers recorders
Peter H. Bloom, divers flutes
Karl Henning, clarinet, drôlerie

Giorgio Koukl:  Fylgjur, 1981 (flute unaccompanied)
David Leone:  ... cathedral ..., 2014 — première (flute, clarinet & fixed media)
Karl Henning:  From the Pit of a Cave in the Cloud, Op.129 (text by Leo Schulte), 2015 — première

King’s Chapel
Tremont & School Streets, Boston

Yet another Triad soprano is having a look!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Ha, so if I quickly conjure up the musicians to perform it in public in the streets of my city, will that then be the world premiere instead? 

We are a privileged lot at GMG, to be able to see the score etc. before it's even played!

[Cato]

Ha, so if I quickly conjure up the musicians to perform it in public in the streets of my city, will that then be the world premiere instead? 

We are a privileged lot at GMG, to be able to see the score etc. before it's even played!

Heh-heh!  Depending on what happens with the bald soprano problem, you might have a shot!     But check with Karl first!

Many thanks for your kind comments!  Right now they are especially appreciated! 

And I am sending you a personal message (q.v.) !

[Karl Henning]

Ha, so if I quickly conjure up the musicians to perform it in public in the streets of my city, will that then be the world premiere instead? 

If you can, I am in awe of your conjuration skills 

We are a privileged lot at GMG, to be able to see the score etc. before it's even played!

Thanks for looking around!

[Karl Henning]

Triad poster

[North Star]

I take it that you didn't hire Maria for the job...

[Karl Henning]

Good eye, young man!

[Karl Henning]

In fact, the first draught of the poster had garden-variety A's in Mäntyjärvi's name . . . I had to plead for the umlauts . . . .

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Someone record this concert! Or find me a tardis!

[Cato]

Has the dedication for the Opus 129 been changed, or will it stand?   

[Karl Henning]

Has the dedication for the Opus 129 been changed, or will it stand?   

Definitely changing!  This topic arose as I was briefing Peter Bloom on the present kerfuffle . . . considering Evelyn's recent polar reversal.  I was telling Peter that my mind went straight to thoughts of Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle & Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District — each piece, dedicated by the composer to his newlywed wife.  In no less dramatic a fashion, I told Peter, I dedicated my score to a dramatically inappropriate person  0:)

Someone record this concert! Or find me a tardis!

Cheers, Jessop!  I'm certainly planning on recording the concert . . . and I certainly hope to have a replacement soprano sometime this weekend

[Cato]

  In no less dramatic a fashion, I told Peter, I dedicated my score to a dramatically inappropriate person  0:)

I will remain mum, but I know how fitting that phrase is!   

Someone record this concert! Or find me a tardis!

Well, we have one fan who does not find the text poorly written and the music less than acceptable.  0:)

[Karl Henning]

Ladies & Gentlemen, we have a substitution:

Tuesday, 27 Oct 2015
12:15PM

The k a rl h e nn i ng Ensemble

Barbara Hill Meyers, soprano
Carol Epple, flute
Pamela Marshall, horn
Dan Meyers, divers recorders
Peter H. Bloom, divers flutes
Karl Henning, clarinet, drôlerie

Giorgio Koukl:  Fylgjur, 1981 (flute unaccompanied)
David Leone:  flute | clarinet in a + fixed media [2014 : 4] "... cathedral ...", 2014 — première
Karl Henning:  From the Pit of a Cave in the Cloud, Op.129 (text by Leo Schulte), 2015 — première

King's Chapel
Tremont & School Streets, Boston

Voluntary donation

[North Star]

Hooray!!

[Karl Henning]

And Bobbie is going to crush it (in the parlance of our times ....)

[Cato]

Hooray!!

Double HOORAY!

And Bobbie is going to crush it (in the parlance of our times ....)

Glad that you could find someone who could appreciate the music and whose artistic sentiments matched yours!

[Karl Henning]

Double HOORAY!

Glad that you could find someone who could appreciate the music and whose artistic sentiments matched yours!

I had not run into Bobbie for a long time – perhaps not since the 9^th Ear concert of early 2014 when we played How to Tell – when I popped over for their Labor Day Weekend brunch.  She and I caught up a bit then, and since she was interested in what I was writing, I told her I was working like a fiend on the Op.129.  Of course, the fact that it was a new text setting for soprano, alone, would pique her interest;  but my elucidation of the accompanying quartet hooked her.  So she was planning from that point to come hear the concert.

She's been doing a lot of commuting to Phila., singing with The Crossing . . . so when I wrote to Dan Wednesday morning (on my smart phone, while walking back to the office after my eye test at the Mass. RMV), I almost did not dare to hope that Bobbie would actually have capacity between now and then to learn and rehearse the piece. But I asked, knowing that if she could, she was the perfect solution to this . . . mess    0:)

[jochanaan]

...But I asked, knowing that if she could, she was the perfect solution to this . . . mess    0:)

Think you that she will sing it better than the "dramatically inappropriate" person?

[Karl Henning]

Aye; she enjoys our highest confidence