Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Depending on traffic, it will take me an hour and three-quarters to get to the venue 

The choir director at my old school has permitted me to send her the Op.123.  It may be too hard for them;  but the conversation is started!

[Karl Henning]

Good Triad rehearsal last night . . . concerts are 14 & 16 May.  The Rutherford Community Band are playing a memorial concert to honor my dear old high school band director, Ray Heller on 13 May, and I am still weighing my logistical options (around the pivot of Friday night in Old Boiling Springs, and driving back to Boston Saturday morning).

Oh!  Notable from last night's rehearsal was, we got to read through Chas. Turner's Wordless Choruses, and they are lovely and fun.

I need to have something for my now many ringers of the HTUMC handbell choir to rehearse after this Sunday's service.

[Karl Henning]

David Bohn will include Beach Balls (Red) on his 17 August "15 Minutes of Fame" program (premières of 15 pieces one minute in duration each).

[Karl Henning]

Well, I would not have thought I should ever have occasion to sing as part of the Cantata Singers . . . but Charles (who is a regular) has had a scheduling conflict arise with the May concert date, and he has recruited me as a sub.  The program is Pärt, Adam's Lament, and a motet & Mass by JSB.  I join their second rehearsal this evening.

[Karl Henning]

Reminded by my ruminations on the A frustration thread 

. . . Kammerwerke have their British concert in two weeks (29 April).  Not a good time to expect actual news viz. The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth;  but a good time to reach out to Carol with a low-impact query, since we are yet a distance from the pre-concert frenzy.  Will report . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Well, I thought rehearsal started at 7.  Still, good to be early for my first impression upon Management.



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[kishnevi]

Well, I would not have thought I should ever have occasion to sing as part of the Cantata Singers . . . but Charles (who is a regular) has had a scheduling conflict arise with the May concert date, and he has recruited me as a sub.  The program is Pärt, Adam's Lament, and a motet & Mass by JSB.  I join their second rehearsal this evening.

I find Adam's Lament to be one of the best I have heard by Part, and quite good luck for you to be one of its singers...

[Karl Henning]

It's a beauty, Jeffrey.  Had a good time last night.

[Karl Henning]

Haven't watched this yet, though I've listened to my own audio:

http://www.youtube.com/v/LKbYf31_KJ0

[Karl Henning]

Latest on The Young Lady is:  the director has agreed to a further reading over the summer, with an eye to possible programming in January 2017.

[Karl Henning]

We were going to give the da Victoria Pueri Hebraeorum another go, and it was going to be this Sunday.  But one of my altos has (with apology) withdrawn from choir for the rest of the season, in order to take a Tai Chi class which conflicts with rehearsal;  and a second alto has broken a shoulder.  Certainly have to pull the motet this Sunday;  and may need to abandon hope of trying it again this season (we'll see when my alto's shoulder mends).

I therefore need a Plan B for this Sunday, preferably something my choir already know.  I had the idea of using Brightest and Best again, and I've swapped a more general text for the Epiphany-specific original.

[Karl Henning]

More impermanence, or, What I learned by chance at the Cantata Singers rehearsal last night:  this Triad concert will be David Harris's last, as he follows his Laurel out to California.  (This was announced at the end of Monday evening's rehearsal, and so after I had headed home to my pillow.)  There's a feeling of uncertainty.

Since David had been part of C4 in New York, which is our organizational model, David has really served as institutional memory/resource, and he has always done the lion's (or at least the puma's) share of the conducting.

On t'other hand, the idea of the collective is obviously, there is no One Person who "is" the group.  Even in our short history, there have been many personnel changes, and our operations have remained pretty much unruffled.

I do think of two potential successors as Chief Facilitator, one female, one male.  (To be clear, I don't have the time/energy to try to fill those shoes, so I am not at all dreaming of rising to The Top, myself.)

Since we have two concerts approaching in May (for one of which, as yet no venue has been secured), I do not see this organizational question being addressed before June.

As I say: there's a feeling of uncertainty.

[jochanaan]

They say that times of uncertainty are really times of opportunity.

[Karl Henning]

They say that times of uncertainty are really times of opportunity.

Truly, opportunities abound.

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[Karl Henning]

I need to think seriously about 21 June at King's Chapel.  I wonder if waiting on Frank Grimes to make up his mind viz. The Mousetrap will be an error. I've reached out to Sylvie (marimbist for The Mysterious Fruit) to see if she may be game for just what everyone was expecting. And violinist Rachel & I have talked of playing together, so I've sent to her as well ... thinking of calling such a piece Tears for the Avant-garde.

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[Karl Henning]

Rachel is in.

I am now thinking of a diptych:

   
• Tears of the Avant-garde
• Crépuscule avec Masha

[Karl Henning]

I posted too soon    Rachel has reconsidered (concert date is bad timing with various family events).

[Karl Henning]

Just a bit of (sonic) fun:

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

[Karl Henning]

Just a bit of (sonic) fun:

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

Source sounds include: my voice (various syllables, humming, a few words), hand claps, brass ash tray (struck by a plastic bar), piano (one of the Visions fugitives de nouveau), clarinet choir (the MIDI of the Saltmarsh Stomp).

What did I learn from the Hebrew Children 'post-mortem'?

• That I needed to be more attuned to registral variety (i.e., exactly the sort of thing one does in "normal" composition)
• To be sparing and specific in the use of (e.g.) wah-wah
• Take a few more risks with the tool.

[Cato]

Okay, after 2 minutes, I kept wondering: "Where are all these sounds, and why does it only sound like a vacuum cleaner two blocks away?"

The YouTube volume was nearly off! 

Cranking it up really made things take off! 

Alternative title: Sex Tape From Outer Space !!!