2500th Post

 No, I do not suffer from delusions. I enjoy them entirely.

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Why tonality as such should be thrown out for good I can’t see.
Why it should always be present I can’t see.

— Chas Ives

I haven’t always posted to the blog consistently, nor would I make so bold as to claim that when I do post, the content is always substantial and necessarily of general interest, and yet here we are, 2500 posts to date. My hopes then may have been better than my expectations, but my career has not exactly soared in the interval. I am composing better and better, I believe. Indeed, considering that my life may well have ended in November of 2018, I am mostly glad to be around to compose at all, especially pleased that I got to complete White Nights. I find it of interest poking around the blog not least because it serves me as a remembrancer especially of items since forgotten. For instance, I formed the impression that I did not much post about Triad until we so christened the group. so it rather tickles me to find myself having written in this post, for instance, of [t]he as-yet-unnamed composer-conductor choral concern.

Obviously I’m looking forward to Paul Carlson’s première of Petersburg Nocturne on Saturday, and the CRWE concert Sunday (we shall hear what Matt may say, or not, viz. Henningmusick.)

I chuckle in mild surprise that I myself may be the source of the phrase Amorphous and Forward-Looking.

Today was an enormous landmark, truly, in that the Henning Ensemble rehearsed for the first time as this new sextet. We rehearsed:
Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be
Down Along the Canal to Minerva Road
Dark Side of the Sun
Fantasia on a Theme by Rahsaan Roland Kirk
The rehearsal went splendidly, and we’ve booked a number of rehearsals as well as a date to propose for a concert at the Library.