A Wee Bit of Nostalgia, As May Be

It’s the end of Music as a Common Language as we know it, and I feel fine.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Be happy whenever you can manage it.

— John Cage

Although I don’t know what November will bring, we do have a Henning Ensemble date at King’s Chapel, so of course, one plans repertory. My old chum Alan Westby has furnished a song arrangement, The Quiet Girl, and our colleague Pam Marshall is similarly cooking up an arrangement. My pieces which I’d planned on are themselves arrangements: Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels and Down Along the Canal to Minerva Road. As can be seen, the program is filling nicely. Maybe it’s superfluous, but I went ahead and wrote a two-minute encore, Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be.