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karlhenning

Or rather, I should like to change my password. I am not sure that the e-mail address I used at the time I joined CMG is still active. How to proceed?
Thanks!

karlhenning

Lance, I'm going to change my password. I am karlhenning

karlhenning

Doing okay, thanks! I've even been able to resume my weekly outpatient therapy in the office A. with a relatively small pool of clients, B. which schedules the appointments so there is no client overlap, C. whose proprietor is extremely diligent about cleaning up, and D. which is therefore only open...

karlhenning

Leroy Anderson was mighty fine, and his music is both well wrought, and good fun.

karlhenning

I caught up with my publisher on the phone t'other day (the Lux Nova imprint of the Opus 28 organ pieces, including a mighty challenging Toccata, will be ready soon) pianist and Naxos recording artist Giorgio Koukl (whom I met some years ago in Milan, and who is also a composer in the Lux Nova stabl...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:56 pm
Thank you, Karl. Good to see you here. How are you doing?

Doing all right, thanks. The left hand and arm remain a work-in-progress.

karlhenning

Indeed, congratulations, Karl. Was there a lot of revising earlier material to get to the conclusion? I like the name, "White Nights" - it conjures up much in the imagination! As I periodically resumed work, I generally went back to review, so there was not much which required alteration, as I near...

karlhenning

My big news is that, 17 years later, I have at last finished my ballet, White Nights, Op.75

[url]http://henningmusick.blogspot.com/2020/ ... k.html[url]

karlhenning

My big news is that, 17 years later, I have at last finished my ballet, White Nights, Op.75

[url]http://henningmusick.blogspot.com/2020/ ... k.html[url]

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Cheers, Lance!

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I shall never meet his like, again. A brilliant musician!

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Egads!

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An exceptional and brave artist!

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Many thanks.

karlhenning

Ah, I do still have your email address, Lance; I have sent a short message.

karlhenning

Oddly, I have heard nothing from Karl Henning since his illness quite some time ago. I had some correspondence with his wife, Maria Bablyak, but cannot find the e-mail now. I checked his web site but cannot find any way to contact him directly. Apparently he is "up and running" again, thankfully. H...

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Hello, all.

karlhenning

Next Henningmusick is this Tuesday, 17 April: Down Along the Canal to Minerva Road, Op.149 for C flute, alto flute, clarinet & horn.

Cheers,
~k.

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It is, after all, the day.

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

Tragedy, in the sense that it was his own damnable fault, is perfectly true.

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:06 pm
Need it be said that people will still want to listen to music long after the annals of the compact disc have closed?

I guess I'll keep writing, in case 8)

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

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david johnson wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 14, 2018 3:27 am
Trump may be an s***hole himself for calling those countries by that name...but then so would Obama by that scale, since he called Lybia a s***spot, while still in office, in 2016.

One can see why you are totally okay with the President having no regard for What Is the Case, too.

karlhenning

That's one benefit of having a big name: even if previews downplay expectations, people go to see/hear your work. Ka-ching!

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

I know that journalists mostly do not write their own headlines, but it is tonality, not harmony, that is in question, and it was tonality that was supposedly exhausted, not Schoenberg. If Schoenberg had been able to travel forward in time to hear Philip Glass , he would have found himself exhauste...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:15 am

Belle wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 05, 2017 1:36 am
I love Schoenberg's arrangement of this little gem, which is very appropriate for this time of year and is posted by way of a seasonal greeting
Belle thanks so much for this-it sure beats Erwartung! Regards, Len :lol:

Oh, it does not, Len! I love Erwartung.

Cheers (fleeing),
~Karl

karlhenning

Hey, I missed you! Happy Thanksgiving!

Cheers,
~Karl

karlhenning

Seems like wedding music nowadays is whatever the bride wants. I've heard of a number of random classical selections (like the Pachelbel canon, now perhaps passé), rock songs if any can be found with appropriate lyrics, whatever. As long as there are weddings in the US, there will Pachelbel be play...

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Cheers, Seán! It's a lovely tune, and new to me (although arguably similar in character to couple of other folksy hymntunes). One Sunday we had a guest minister, who had designated this as the opening hymn; it would have been new to the congregation, too (nothing wrong with that, to be sure); but it...

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From Sunday's service:

Cheers,
~Karl

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The Gloria from Triad's "preview concert" in Beverly yesterday afternoon. Still some work to do, but we have another rehearsal this evening, and then the concerts proper this weekend coming:

Cheers,
~Karl

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The piano version of just what everyone was expecting (Op.114a) from the 24 March 2017 concert:

Cheers,
~Karl

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Not our grandfathers' Beethoven:

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 28, 2017 6:35 am
Opera on Coney Island? Now I've heard everything. :lol:

And yet . . . it's so right!

Cheers,
~Karl

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I had to dig, and dig deep, to find this thread! Which of course testifies to its general lack of relevance here at CMG. I post this all the same, calm in the knowledge that the thread will be buried again, without annoying anyone. But, hey: someone might be interested! A simple handbell choir arran...

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Most interesting, chaps, thanks.

Cheers,
~Karl

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Cool. A really great (in more senses than one) piece, even if the line "the only Schoenberg I like is Gurrelieder (or Verklärte Nacht)" has grown long in the tooth.

Cheers,
~Karl

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More of My Favorite Hovhaness in addition to the Symphony for Metal Orchestra, Op.203: Lousadzak, Op.48 (as mentioned) Requiem and Resurrection, Op.224 These are all first-rate works, and (so far as I can tell) suffer only from a lamentable combination of general neglect, and a readiness to dismiss ...

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That Gurrelieder is magnificent.

Cheers,
~Karl

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I count eight recordings of MM by seven significant conductors, all made in the last century. Schwarz took two of the eight bows. A cursory glance at YT turns up at least three recent performances by youth orchestras, so maybe that's where this beautiful work is most likely to be programmed in our ...

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Well, we all make the odd typo, of course.

You'll forgive my pressing the cause of the Loyal Opposition here, dear fellow . . . you say "has not been forgotten," but 1997 is 20 years gone ; )

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

Agree. Mysterious Mountain, however, got one recording by Reiner/Chicago and another by Stokowski, and when searched for on amazon pulls up 30 pages, so I'd hardly call it a neglected piece of music. I accepted the challenge; and the search does read "1-12 of 30 results"; so the first objection is,...

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The huge crowds which turn out to the "Last Night of the Proms" in the UK are staggering. And the audiences themselves in the Albert Hall are stacked to the rafters for much of the Prom season. I would say the death of 'classical music' has been highly exaggerated and I place no credibility in surv...

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Especially given the fact of the article, in the sense of “the 35 female composers most likely to be brought to your attention,” there is no gross verbal misconduct in the phrase the top 35.

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

The MIDI demo of Counting Sheep (or, The Dreamy Abacus of Don Quijote), an old, old work of mine that still has not been performed:

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

I have finished Intermezzo II of the ballet.

The MIDI demo:

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

Work on the ballet continues; I finished Scene 9 yesterday. Will think about Scene 10 today and this evening . . . it is the last of Night the Second (and, relatively brief) so there is a good chance that the first two Acts of the ballet will be In the Can this weekend.

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

Belle wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 09, 2017 1:08 pm
The item in "The Economist" says Kissin is the world's most "acclaimed"; it didn't say he was the "best". There's a discernible difference between these two words.

Sure. A ridiculous claim in either case.

Cheers,
~k.

karlhenning

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21724792-his-first-solo-recording-decade-shows-how-his-playing-has-matured-evgeny-kissin First (and others largely got here first), it is totes awesome that we have decided who The World’s Most Acclaimed Pianist is! Thank you, The Economist ! And while ...

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The story (part of it, anyway).

And the MIDI demo:

Cheers,
~k.

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