Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

I realize I'm a bit late, but I want to express my sincerest sympathy to you and your family, Karl. Peace be with you at this difficult time.

Not late in any wise, many thanks!

[Karl Henning]

Karl, was this at Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk? (My plans changed drastically, and I wasn't able to get up there.)

Do report on the occasion, if so!

-Bruce

Lady Macbeth of Mashpee

[Karl Henning]

I got a msg out of the blue from Ed Broms, with whom I work at the Cathedral Church of St Paul on Tremont Street. He has a new post at a church in New Hampshire, and he wanted a copy of a Nunc dimittis I wrote for an Evensong back when.

[Karl Henning]

I wrote a simple Psalm setting long ago for First Congo in Woburn. when I was first appointed to the post in Danvers, I ordered in some copies of the SAB version. (or was it SATB?) Anyway, my choir as presently constituted needs this super simplified. I've started working on that today. Whether it's the nature of the work, or my just not having a lot of stamina, I laid 17 measures down and have come to feel that I'm worked out for the day. 

[Karl Henning]

Sometimes I wonder if I have the energy anymore to keep trying (a) to push myself as a composer and (b) write more music, but I think/hope that it's just being somehow tired today.

[Florestan]

Sometimes I wonder if I have the energy anymore to keep trying (a) to push myself as a composer and (b) write more music, but I think/hope that it's just being somehow tired today.

If you stopped composing altogether you'd probably get into a depression and that's a very bad perspective. Keep writing, just don't push your current limits. You don't have to prove anything to anyone, especially not at the cost of your health.

[Karl Henning]

Warmly appreciated.

[Karl Henning]

I wrote a simple Psalm setting long ago for First Congo in Woburn. when I was first appointed to the post in Danvers, I ordered in some copies of the SAB version. (or was it SATB?) Anyway, my choir as presently constituted needs this super simplified. I've started working on that today. Whether it's the nature of the work, or my just not having a lot of stamina, I laid 17 measures down and have come to feel that I'm worked out for the day.

Well, I can save myself this labor, I found the SAB version in the filing cabinet, which we read at last night's rehearsal, and we can make this work.

[Karl Henning]

Just out for a fun evening: A Far Cry is assembling to play here, in a renovated industrial space dubbed Workhub Substation. No idea what the program will be, just know that they will play beautifully. I've just reintroduced myself to a cellist who is new to this group, whom I heard play a Saint-Saëns concerto years ago in Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Rafael Popper-Keizer.

[Karl Henning]

Just out for a fun evening: A Far Cry is assembling to play here, in a renovated industrial space dubbed Workhub Substation. No idea what the program will be, just know that they will play beautifully. I've just reintroduced myself to a cellist who is new to this group, whom I heard play a Saint-Saëns concerto years ago in Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Rafael Popper-Keizer.

They're playing a strings-only version of the LvB Pastorale Symphony. 

[Karl Henning]

Very family-friendly event: children dancing to Beethoven. I love it!

[Karl Henning]

Good initial reading today of Nun of the Above and Fuchsia Minor. The consensus was "challenging but fun."

Dave Zox (bass) and Peter H. Bloom (flutes)

[Karl Henning]

Carol Epple (flutes) and Dan Zupan (sax)

[DavidW]

Is that your house?

[Karl Henning]

No, Peter's. 

[Karl Henning]

Very family-friendly event: children dancing to Beethoven. I love it!

In hindsight, I wonder if I caught this bug when in the presence of so many children. Whatever the case, the "fun" is ongoing.

[Cato]

In hindsight, I wonder if I caught this bug when in the presence of so many children. Whatever the case, the "fun" is ongoing.

After about ten years in the classroom, I began to notice that I was less susceptible to colds.


After 30 years in schools, I was positive that I was impervious to any disease known to man or beast...especially the beasts!   


Since it is Lent, let's listen to one of Karl's religious works: too much time has passed since I last heard this!


Magnificat from 2006!

[Karl Henning]

After about ten years in the classroom, I began to notice that I was less susceptible to colds.


After 30 years in schools, I was positive that I was impervious to any disease known to man or beast...especially the beasts! 


Since it is Lent, let's listen to one of Karl's religious works: too much time has passed since I last heard this!


Magnificat from 2006!

Ed Broms just purchased the accompanying Nunc, I'd love to hear both Canticles sung again.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Sometimes I wonder if I have the energy anymore to keep trying (a) to push myself as a composer and (b) write more music, but I think/hope that it's just being somehow tired today.

Taking a rest may not be a bad idea since subconscious in the brain keeps working when you take a rest. It maybe even better if you do nothing until you get painfully bored. Newton found gravity in his leisure time rather than the time he was working. Einstein and Niels Bohr just received scientific theories in their dreams rather than the time they were working   

[Karl Henning]

Taking a rest may not be a bad idea since subconscious in the brain keeps working when you take a rest. It maybe even better if you do nothing until you get painfully bored. Newton found gravity in his leisure time rather than the time he was working. Einstein and Niels Bohr just received scientific theories in their dreams rather than the time they were working   

Thanks, I think this an excellent suggestion. I'll consider 2024 a sabbatical year from composition, and I'll let that part of my brain unwind.