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Post by karlhenning on Jan 19, 2015 8:33:58 GMT -5
From November: the Reinhardt University Percussion Ensemble play the première of My Island Home, Op.115:
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Jan 19, 2015 10:25:26 GMT -5
And, by curious coincidence, another on the very same date (though in Brookline, Mass.): A Song of Remembrance, Op.123.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Feb 3, 2015 14:17:19 GMT -5
Fresh Henningmusick on YouTube! (An old-ish piece, but one which I continue to own entirely.)
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Feb 25, 2015 9:48:06 GMT -5
Various bits of news. I was asked to write a piece for voice and marimba, and this will be performed here in the Back Bay on Sunday March the 15th. I finished the Sanctus for my Mass-in-progress, four-part choir unaccompanied, and yesterday morning arranged this for tuba quartet (two euphonia, two tubas) . . . and a local group (yes, that's right, the New England Tuba Quartet, perhaps you've heard of them? j/k) may read it (and, who knows?, perhaps even perform it).
And I have lustily resumed work on an orchestra piece, which when finished will run somewhere in the 8'-10' range, called Discreet Erasures.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Mar 2, 2015 9:28:26 GMT -5
Discreet Erasures is done! And runs 9-½ minutes. It is a cracking piece, no idea what orchestra might play it. So jazzed to have completed this one, I've now set to revising an earlier orchestral work, The Wind, the Sky, & the Wheeling Stars, which I wrote for a local community group, the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, for a performance back in 2000.
Once I get that done, it's on to finish the Gloria, so that then the Mass, Op. 106 is done. Watch This Space.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Mar 6, 2015 10:46:16 GMT -5
Later this evening, I shall finish off the revised version of The Wind, the Sky, & the Wheeling Stars (the piece I wrote originally for the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, last century). I am already scheming to finish a piece for wind ensemble, In the Artist's Studio (There's a wide world in there) . . . and then to send it to the NEC Wind Ensemble. I am traveling the first part of next week, but I should not be surprised if I have time to do some composing, both on the wind ensemble piece, and on the Gloria.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Mar 14, 2015 8:22:45 GMT -5
The Mysterious Fruit tomorrow:
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Mar 24, 2015 13:01:50 GMT -5
It's only MIDI, but . . . here is a short cello-&-piano piece I wrote (most seasonably) last month:
https%3A//soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/op127-no2-valentine
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Mar 27, 2015 13:12:16 GMT -5
I should have played it better, of course . . . but I have been revisiting this recording of a short clarinet-&-organ piece.
https%3A//soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/gigue-op77-no-2
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Mar 30, 2015 7:12:56 GMT -5
The latest piece finished, for which probably no one has any particular need, is In the Artist’s Studio (There’s a wide world in there), Op.107* for 17 winds** & harp, eight minutes.
* Why the early opus number? About three years ago, I got the first 17pp. of the score done. When I upgraded my Sibelius a couple of years ago, and looked some things over, I felt strongly that this was a piece I ought to set to finishing . . . and lo! so I have done this month.
** Which 17 winds, you ask? E-flat sopranino clarinet, 3 oboes, alto flute, English horn, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, four horns, two tenor trombones, bass trombone & tuba.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Apr 5, 2015 17:38:34 GMT -5
The Alleluia in D this morning:
https%3A//soundcloud.com/htumc-music-program/5-apr-2015-alleluia-in-d
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Apr 15, 2015 8:59:55 GMT -5
An "instrumentalized" MIDI of the Agnus Dei which our new Boston choral venture, Triad, will sing next month.
https%3A//soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/agnus-dei-op-106-no-5
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on May 2, 2015 18:38:26 GMT -5
Well, our new choral collective endeavor, Triad, is on SoundCloud with some previews of our 11 May concert:
https%3A//soundcloud.com/triad-boston/sets/preview-of-11-may-concert
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on May 19, 2015 8:29:10 GMT -5
I've been revisiting and re-engraving short piano pieces which I wrote 20-ish years ago, most of them in St Petersburg. This is just MIDI, so, yes, it's ultimately inadequate, but it does reflect a surprising degree of nuance . . . as a "snapshot" of the music goes, we might have done far worse:
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on May 19, 2015 20:12:52 GMT -5
Also MIDI, the first of the set of five (as the Petersburg Nocturne is the fifth and final):
Cheers, ~k.
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