Dark Side of the Dance Floor II

 Posted by an Australian friend: When you blow your nose in the main reading room of the State Library of Victoria, you can still hear it 10 minutes later.

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

No, no, no, no, don’t tug on that: you never know what it might be attached to.

Peter Weller to Jeff Goldblum in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

Pam dialed in from over sea:

Bom dia from Portugal!

Hi everybody,

Thank you for the excellent concert last night! It was tough waiting
until midnight for it to start but it was musically enriching and worth
the wait. Carvoeiro Clifftop Walk is sounding better than ever -- well
done! Karl, your music continues to be beautiful. As always it grows on
me with every hearing (just as it did with every rehearsal in the old
days )

If I had a tenner for every time, after we’ve concluded a concert at King’s Chapel, and we of the Henning Ensemble have said amongst ourselves, “That was great. what a shame to put in all that work of preparation, and play the program only once.” Therefore, one of the chief ideas behind the Dark Side of the Dance Floor program was that we get more than one performance out of all that hard work.

Another, closely related purpose was to “break open” new venues, especially as our bassist, Dave Zox’s techingh schedule frequently conflicts with the Tuesday lunchtime of our customary King’s Chapel events. To be sure, the beautiful Woburn Public Library is not a venue new to us, so the desire was to make appearances there a more regular happening.

The Dark Side of the Dance Floor program was the most ambitious program the Henning Ensemble has dared to date; and we have now at last successfully repeated a program in quite short order. Last night’s concert went splendidly, we had a good audience who received it well, there were some eight-ten parties who tuned into the Zoom livestream and the church is eager to have us back.

It is not too early to start thinking about another brace of concerts in the spring od 2026, but right now, to get ready for 14 October at King’s Chapel.