Quietly Carrying On

Another day, another comma whose absence was keenly felt:

“Ride On King Jesus”

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Art is the child’s vision, reborn in the artist’s hands.

— Paul Klee

It's the Bloggiversary again! Still blogging after 17 years.

For the February reprise of our October concert in King’s Chapel, we are about to have a pair of refresh rehearsals (not this week, but next.) Actually, “refresh+” rehearsals, since we’ll expand the program by restoring rep which was dropped. Later this month there will be a Utah performance of just what everyone was expecting. The list of noteworthy happenings since the last bloggiversary includes: the expansion of the Henning Ensemble to a sextet (when the planets align); the establishment of two new venues for the Ensemble (okay, new-ish in the case of the Woburn Public Library); a return to the practice of the Ensemble presenting the work of “outside composers”; the revival of Joseph and Mary; and passing the Opus 200 landmark; having the ear of a music director w/r/t Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail; and what looks like a reliable source of income to make up at last for that lost when my position at HTUMC was dissolved. Plans: Gotts finish Janky Juke Joint and the recorder arrangement of Away in a Manger. Should pin down the next Sextet date. There’s the Op. 179 Chamber Orchestra piece I should finally put to bed, too. (I mean, if it were not another purely speculative endeavor, it would have been finished by now—but there you have it, there’s always more Henningmusick than the Universe appears to require.) I think I should write three more short band pieces to shop around. Maybe the key to laying the groundwork for a performance of the Op. 148 Symphony is to strew briefer pieces abroad. As the Sextet program takes shape (including the Simple Music) perhaps I shall draw up another, shorter piece. We shall see.