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Post by karlhenning on Aug 17, 2018 4:25:17 GMT -5
And rather more recent work, though again a new soundfile; in brass tones, because I find MIDI "voices" eminently objectionable:
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by JamesP on Aug 17, 2018 6:55:36 GMT -5
Nice Karl. I hear Holy Unto the Lord
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Post by karlhenning on Aug 21, 2018 7:51:36 GMT -5
And here is Sunday's performance of Plotting (y is the new x)
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by JamesP on Aug 21, 2018 8:19:18 GMT -5
Bravo
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Post by karlhenning on Aug 26, 2018 7:20:01 GMT -5
Thanks!
Now, I need to roll up my sleeves for the piece we are to play at King's Chapel in October. The one bit of work (apart from the lecture & concert, of course) this week, has been some further tweaking/expansion of the fixed media for A Heart So White.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by JamesP on Aug 26, 2018 9:14:19 GMT -5
Karl, I'm greatly impressed by Your creativity and work ethic. How much time do you spend daily with your compositions and arrangements?
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Post by karlhenning on Oct 1, 2018 4:11:07 GMT -5
Hi, James! Very sorry to have let your question languish unanswered. I don't have an absolutely regular routine. Normally, even weekdays, I spend some time (anywhere from half an hour to two hours) in some phase of a composition project. Not to say that there is not the odd week which is a complete "composition sabbatical." The weekends can be fairly intensive sessions; yesterday and the day before, I probably spent about 10 hours total composing, the two tasks being (a relatively 'mechanical' task) preparing the layout of the string orchestra parts for Deep Breath; and creating a voice-plus-seven-instrument "build-out" from an old piano toccata, Unsteady State.
The MIDI of Unsteady State is here:
soundcloud.com/karl-henning-756715731/unsteady-state-grand-lullaby
The text (which the author versified for me in a rush, into which I had not meant to immerse him—my thought was simply to use the original prose passage) is as follows:
“Yes, it’s true! A bird once soared To tell the wind To carry her Wherever it desired.
Across the ocean, Said the wind, To an island, to a hill With an offer of seeds, And insects, and the bones of man.
Still alive were three bones, Three bones of an ancient man Delighted by the feathery visit.
“Dear bird, be at home, And beware, For the soul of destruction Resides in this lair, And I am its keeper, Both now and ere!”
Chirping and twirbling In the cave air The finch its beak Did later clench, When surrounded by An imprisoned stench.
Flapping and fluttering and fleeing the unjailed gas, The finch peeped forth A prayer that rang:
“Crows never sleep, When strychnine dances! Let us drop the poison, Where happiness prances, And crushes our woes!”
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by JamesP on Oct 1, 2018 10:36:40 GMT -5
I would love to hear any of these you have reccorded.
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Post by karlhenning on Oct 16, 2018 8:19:49 GMT -5
Sorry to have been so scarce here. Concert today at King's Chapel.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Oct 18, 2018 4:25:50 GMT -5
I'll soon have the four pieces of Tuesday's program as a playlist . . . perhaps my favorite of the lot, our refreshed performance of Kurosawa's Scarecrow:
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Oct 19, 2018 4:59:32 GMT -5
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Post by JamesP on Oct 19, 2018 7:39:55 GMT -5
Superb!!
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Post by karlhenning on Oct 21, 2018 6:35:44 GMT -5
Thank you!
I also uploaded a rehearsal take of Louise Mundinger and me playing the clarinet/organ voluntary which my organist (Barbara Otto) requested that I write:
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Oct 24, 2018 4:38:56 GMT -5
Preparations are well under way for the November Triad concerts. We're doing something a little different, a mixed program which is about half the full ensemble, half solo turns by individual singers. So this concert will include both my new It Might Happen Today (men's choir, text by eight-year-old Emma Wallingford) and Sudie Marcuse singing an abridged version of The Mystic Trumpeter (the full 20-minute piece would be incongruously great for the program). It will, therefore, also be the first Triad concert in which I play clarinet.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Nov 1, 2018 4:04:21 GMT -5
Just a taste, from last Saturday's rehearsal:
Cheers, ~k.
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