Poll
Question:
What new title should attach to the Op.120 quartet?
Option 1: Behind the Smile
votes: 0
Option 2: Together
votes: 0
Option 3: Brothers, If They Only Knew It
votes: 2
Option 4: I See People Walking Around Like Trees
votes: 5
Option 5: [Something else?— specify, but it has got to be . . . mysterious]
votes: 3
The quartet-in-progress has assumed a character which I find is quite poorly reflected by the title
Dysfunction & Outright Extortion (which
is a fine title, and which I
will employ hereafter).
Here is the dish:
- The poll only runs for 8 days, because the piece will be done in that time. (You just watch, if you think I don't mean it.)
- Only one vote per user; but, you are allowed to change your vote.
- The composer will not be bound by the poll's results; however—
- The results will have an impact on the decision. I seek your opinion!
- Proposals for other titles are welcome, but the criterion is: Something Mysterious
To recap: the piece will run 5-6 minutes total, and is scored for flute in C, clarinet in A, double-bass and frame drum. The
première will be Tuesday, 15 April, at King's Chapel on Tremont Street in Boston.
Chaotic Synchronicity
How about.... Something Mysterious ? :D
Quote from: North Star on February 26, 2014, 08:34:17 AM
How about.... Something Mysterious ? :D
Quote from: springrite on February 26, 2014, 08:32:39 AM
Chaotic Synchronicity
Or even "Synchronous (Synchronicitous?) Chaos..."
I like these too!
Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual.
Quote from: Cato on February 26, 2014, 08:53:17 AM
Or even "Synchronous (Synchronicitous?) Chaos..."
I like these too!
Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual.
Synchronized chaos? I will take that or any variation of that. It is a term that I came up with and have used in the past.
I chose Trees, but will throw one into the mix... I did not see that coming!
Quote from: springrite on February 26, 2014, 08:32:39 AM
Chaotic Synchronicity
I like it, though . . . not for this piece :)
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on February 26, 2014, 09:01:31 AM
I chose Trees, but will throw one into the mix... I did not see that coming!
I myself am trending arborward . . . .
Quote from: North Star on February 26, 2014, 08:34:17 AM
How about.... Something Mysterious ? :D
My thought as well! I vote for
Something Mysterious! with exclamation point.
Quote from: karlhenning on February 26, 2014, 09:11:35 AM
I like it, though . . . not for this piece :)
Reservation for Op.121...
Maybe so . . . likely to be a piece for The 9th Ear ....
From the choices given, Trees stand out. So that's where my vote goes.
It also sounds like a line I'd write in one of my poems.
I don't know the character of the piece but a (rather) mysterious title that came to mind is "Attendance is Declining" (which would also make perfect sense if you were to phase out instruments one by one at the end).
Omaggio a Papa ;)
I voted for I See People Walking Around Like Trees. Seems like a cool title to me and, of course, it's quite ambiguous, which is what I think Karl usually goes for in compositional titles.
For the Pheidippides Fife and Drum Corps
Suggestive of things temporally-spatially proximate to the premiere, but only suggestive....
Thanks, all!
Repent Harlequin! cried the Tick-tock Man. Taken.
I Seem to be a Verb. Taken.
In Praise of Folly. Taken.
Illegal Conversation. Taken.
Avatar of Pan.
Brief Encounter
Batman vs. Dracula II: Revenge of the Zombie Queen
Quote from: karlhenning on February 26, 2014, 09:24:30 AM
Maybe so . . . likely to be a piece for The 9th Ear ....
Ah, okay. Since this work is for the
The 9th Ear, then you could possibly subtitle the work
And The 9th Ear Hears... and just leave it at that. I believe this is as ambiguous as you can get. 8)
I See My Tree Brethren Fornicatin' Like Two Spaceships on Opposite Ends of a Black Hole Spectral Spectrum and It Goldens My Crossword Puzzle So! op.120
No more pop for you, son.
Karl, perhaps Greg has been reading too much Dan Simmons! :o
So what does the composer say?
Has a title been chosen yet? 0:)
The Trees have it!
But I am using Brothers, If They Only Knew It for the instrumental arrangement of the Agnus Dei.
And thus, I lock the vote.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 04, 2014, 06:40:15 AM
The Trees have it!
I was sure they wood, though I personally could take it or leaf it.
Anyway at the premiere I hope you will take a bough.
I may take a bough ASAP
And if all doesn't go well I hope you manage to spruce up and won't turn the score into ashes, as you might pine later, and instead just cover your face with a palm.
Some of the puns are getting a bit forest.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 04, 2014, 09:35:43 AM
Some of the puns are getting a bit forest.
Have you written any poplar music,
Karl?
Quote from: karlhenning on March 04, 2014, 09:35:43 AM
Some of the puns are getting a bit forest.
And hard to bare, as well.
Quote from: North Star on March 04, 2014, 09:41:22 AM
Have you written any poplar music, Karl?
Not on a larch scale.
Quote from: North Star on March 04, 2014, 09:41:22 AM
Have you written any poplar music, Karl?
He wrote a song for Ke$he but she rejected it; she said she wanted his teeth instead.
Sarge
Only the hickory teeth!
Quote from: karlhenning on March 04, 2014, 09:50:29 AM
Not on a larch scale.
Yew willow, though, right? After all, walnut?
Quote from: karlhenning on March 04, 2014, 10:10:43 AM
Only the hickory teeth!
Teeth? Is her bark worse than her bite?
Quote from: Ken B on March 04, 2014, 10:42:04 AM
Teeth? Is her bark worse than her bite?
Maple it is, at that.
In the Gospel of Mark (8: 22-24), there is what I consider to be perhaps the most mysterious of all the scenes in the 4 Gospels.
A blind man is brought to Jesus to be cured. Jesus takes him (for some reason) outside of the town, puts saliva on the man's eyes, and asks if him if he can see. The now (somewhat) seeing man says: "I see people walking around like trees."
So Jesus repeats the process, things clear up, and the man apparently leads a normal life afterward.
Theologians have debated for centuries which scenes and sayings in the Gospels came from actual events, and which were added later as clarifications or expansions. This scene and the line from the blind man are so unusual that many believe it must be from an actual event.
One interpretation of the double attempt to cure him is that, despite the awfulness of thinking that people have somehow become giants, the man still wants to be able to see, i.e. he does not want to return to a blind state. Even if people have for some reason become giants, he wants to see the truth, no matter how strange or awful.
Quote from: Cato on March 05, 2014, 06:09:16 AM
. . . Jesus takes him (for some reason) outside of the town, puts saliva on the man's eyes, and asks if him if he can see.
In our day, we should have to add the disclaimer,
Kids, don't try this at home . . . .
Quote from: karlhenning on March 05, 2014, 06:11:59 AM
In our day, we should have to add the disclaimer, Kids, don't try this at home . . . .
Tort reform: almost an impossibility when you have judges (after they leave the bench) and politicians all benefiting from out-of-control lawsuits.
There is a case to be made for banning lawyers from politics and from becoming judges! Some of my 8th Graders have better sense and better morals! 0:)
Quote from: Cato on March 05, 2014, 06:42:50 AM
Tort reform: almost an impossibility when you have judges (after they leave the bench) and politicians all benefiting from out-of-control lawsuits.
There is a case to be made for banning lawyers from politics and from becoming judges! Some of my 8th Graders have better sense and better morals! 0:)
You remind me of a classic line from author Gene Wolfe: "He didn't sound like a lawyer; he sounded like someone who told the truth." :laugh:
Quote from: jochanaan on March 05, 2014, 07:53:11 AM
You remind me of a classic line from author Gene Wolfe: "He didn't sound like a lawyer; he sounded like someone who told the truth." :laugh:
Heh heh! :laugh: Well, in America right now we have too many lawyers trying to make a living from lawsuits, and when they get into politics, they pass too many laws intruding into too many areas of private life: we need more people who
produce things from original ideas.
Lawyers have their place, of course, but there are limits.
Quote from: jochanaan on March 05, 2014, 07:53:11 AM
You remind me of a classic line from author Gene Wolfe: "He didn't sound like a lawyer; he sounded like someone who told the truth." :laugh:
Gene Wolfe is the best.
Almost forgot to post here! The quartet which now bears the name:
http://www.youtube.com/v/E0_-CTvtSS8