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henningmusick: September 2014

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. Glimpses of future performance. My plane fare for Atlanta in November (which will get here quite soon, actually) is booked. I should begin practicing just what everyone was expecting. In earnest. And, while I can practice. The piece on the A, the time is upon me when I have got to have the B-flat repaired (not heavy. Repair, to be sure). Soon, I shall actually speak in real time with the marimbist for The Mysterious Fruit. Posted by Karl Henning. Posted by Karl H...

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henningmusick: May 2015

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. Yes, there was a great deal of Henningmusick activity [this past] month, and no, I scarcely did any blogging. So there's some catching up to do. I've had a great time engraving the old piano music. More on that soon. Right now [ 2 June, that is. On my way to King's Chapel. To play (for the second time, in that fine venue) the Studies in Impermanence. Posted by Karl Henning. The Return of the Op.11. It took three-ish sessions to re-engrave the Petersburg Nocturne.

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henningmusick: June 2014

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. Finale of Night the First. No, this is not complaint.]. So as I continue the process of revisiting the "old scenes" from the ballet, creating new Sibelius files of the scores, refining and adding detail, with practically each page I find music I am pleased and proud to have written. Yesterday I got just past the half-way point in Scene 3b. Not so much work as I might. And with the first Intermezzo. I can plan on reaching the end of Night the First. Everything mus...

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henningmusick: Briefly

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. Yes, there was a great deal of Henningmusick activity [this past] month, and no, I scarcely did any blogging. So there's some catching up to do. I've had a great time engraving the old piano music. More on that soon. Right now [ 2 June, that is. On my way to King's Chapel. To play (for the second time, in that fine venue) the Studies in Impermanence. Posted by Karl Henning. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Return of the Op.11. Old stuff, giving it new life.

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henningmusick: February 2015

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. The mind and heart settled, I find that Discreet. Is indeed finished. This project put me in mind of a very different earlier piece, composed for the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, and indeed composed long enough ago that I have only an old Finale file. Since I am going to need to put her a bit with the Sibelius file of the Discreet Erasures. Simply for parts management, I think that creating a Sibelius edition of The Wind, the Sky, and the Wheeling Stars. There may ...

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henningmusick: Old stuff, giving it new life

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. Old stuff, giving it new life. This week I have been revisiting short piano pieces I composed in St Petersburg (and elsewhere) 20 years ago and more, and I am agreeably surprised at how well I like them. Now, my eye falling upon the title of an old trio for clarinet and two saxophones, I wonder if that score may possibly be salvageable . . . even if not, the rediscovery of these piano pieces has been something of a gift to my later self. Posted by Karl Henning.

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henningmusick: Reprehension

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. As at times I mull upon my (let's call it) mild dissatisfaction over the obscurity into which Misapprehension. Has sunk, I've thought about how I might re-score it. String choir, sure, but it isn't as if I knew the director of a string orchestra for whom the piece would right away be a good fit. And when I learnt that there is a mandolin orchestra nearby, that intelligence set wheels in motion; but in the event, such a scheme were insufficiently practical.

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henningmusick: October 2014

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. Blast from All Hallowses Past. Before I embarked upon a dubious (but decisive) solo career, we had been The Crypt-Kicker Six:. And flies all green and buzzin' from Hallowe'en of 1981:. Posted by Karl Henning. Watched the two Hallowe'en episodes from The Addams Family. Of Gomez and Fester bobbing for apples on a seesaw (admittedly, an inspired bit of stage action). Posted by Karl Henning. Derned if I recall. Posted by Karl Henning. Posted by Karl Henning. Many and...

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henningmusick: The Return of the Op.11

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. The Return of the Op.11. It took three-ish sessions to re-engrave the Petersburg Nocturne. In Sibelius, and it looks much better, much truer to its appearance in MS. Than did my earlier attempt in Finale (from which I actually had the temerity to try playing the piece in public, albeit a lunchtime recital at St Paul's). Spring in Her Step. Required two-ish sessions, and the new look of the piece (harmonized with the. The Bronze Girl's Spilt Milk. Links, Blogs, &c.

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henningmusick: November 2014

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Cyberspace asides on the making of music. To be sure, it must come with the time of year; traffic snarls, clogged roads, and the havoc these perforce wreak on the bus schedules, form the background of my Sunday. The passenger next to me has ear buds in, but at that volume, her hearing must be at risk. My best option is probably to listen to my own variety of music (at a safe level). Posted by Karl Henning. Some progress with The Mysterious Fruit. Lute music, Louis Couperin. Harpsichord solo, Queyras.