Looking from Afar at I Look from Afar

I believe I may just have thought of something.

In Boston early Tuesday morning, a rumor seemed to gain traction, that Karl Henning may just have thought something.

Critics were quick to respond, “What could he think? C’mon!”

An independent source has confirmed that what I just thought may indeed be something.

One thinker, who just may own the rights to something else, threatened legal action.

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

...good, good with cutlery, good with silver. Alfred Hitchcock knew what he was doing.

— Mel Brooks, remembering the lunches

I got up for class today ... Aaron gave a lecture-demo at BU at 9:30, and seeing that I cannot go hear him in Newport on 12 Oct, this was a fortuitous opportunity. It did require, however, that I remove my head from the pillow rather earlier than is my wont, so I’ve now finished my supplementary nap.

I did not need to rebuild the score of I Look from Afar, Op. 60. I already had a Sibelius file, from 2002. My 2025 guess is: having recently switched from Finale, I used this piece as practice with grander scores in my new notation home. I suppose I also wanted to show the piece to Mark Engelhardt, although mostly the piece puzzled my friend, I think, my setting differing so completely from the Palestrina Antiphon by which I came to know the text. For my part, the peculiar thing is, that while singing the Palestrina with the St Paul's choir the morning of an Advent I long ago was the occasion for the text making such an impression upon me that I was soon determined to compose my own setting, after decades of my brain associating my own music with the text, I don't recognize the Palestrina, practically at all, at all. As the Sibelius file was at the ready, all I needed to do was quickly edit the brass parts. I’ve now sent the performance set to the musical powers that be, and we shall see,

I have finished three pages (of 16) of the Op. 61 Reflections upon a French Carol. I believe I shall try to knock down three pages per day.

I am also keen to wrap up Aaron’s Uneasy Sleep, Op. 203, so my daily plan is: see to three pp. of the Op. 61. Compose 60 seconds of guitar music. If I can hew to the plan. both projects should be complete this weekend.

Watch This Space.