A Tweak and an Epiphany

 The Pirates of Penance (getting ready for Confess Like a Pirate Day)
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
— Karl Popper

It was well pointed out to me, that the “Plan B” program I devised yesterday presents two consecutive expressly elegiac pieces. I do want a rhythmically active piece to follow Kevin’s piece, which is mostly sostenuto. We can achieve this with an easy swap.

14 Oct @ King’s Chapel Plan B (modified)

Charms and Offertories

Karl Henning, Lamentatio pro sorore sua, Op. 202a (première) [3:15]
Henning, A Dance Floor for the Introverted, Op. 178 № 2 [5:30]
Kevin Scott, Minchah (première) [11:00]
Robert Gross, Four’s the Charm (première) [5:30]
Henning, Peace! The Charm’s Wound Up, Op. 204 (première) [4:00]
Henning, Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be, Op. 191c [2:30]

I should have liked to open the program with a guest composer, but Robert’s piece will make a good contrast after Kevin’s. I might have switched to have Kevin open the program, but it wouldn’t do to open the concert with such solemnity.

Also, nine years ago today (should I dig it out to float by Redeemer?):

I think I have finished the arrangement of In dulci jubilo for flute, horn, handbells, youth & adult choirs & organ. ’Tis but a modest project, true, but (I think) good fun. [18 Sep 2016]

And 15 years ago today:

Just booked my flight to Rochester for the première of the Viola Sonata Opus 102. [18 Sep 2010]

I’ve kept faith with the intent of working each day on the guitar part (the piece’s raison  d’être) of Aaron’s Uneasy Sleep, but the sense that what I’ve been doing is right has eluded me. My feeling yesterday was to plough my way out to the final double-bar, and re-touch/repair when I eventually got the line complete. However, I see the light today, that (while I shall hold onto the present line for consideration for a future piece) I need to write something of a very different character.

Pictured, an early version of the Henning Ensemble: Peter, Paul & Karl