Catching up, Rather

Do you remember when your self was other than it is?
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

What is the guy so upset about? You'd think nobody was ever compared to Mussolini before....

— Woody Allen in Crimes and Misdemeanors

Gentle Reader, to state the obvious, I post too seldom to this blog. This forms the dilemma of determining the degree I should try to address posting info which is no longer news. Well, in any event, weeks late I here report that the Henning Ensemble (Peter H. Bloom & Carol Epple, flutes, Dan Zupan, alto saxophone and bass clarinet and Dave Zox, double-bass) performed at King's Chapel on Thanksgiving week. The program:

Nostalgia Trips

Karl Henning (1960): Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels, Op. 117a

Alan Westby (1961): The Quiet Girl (Première)

Henning: Down Along the Canal to Minerva Road, Op. 149a

Pamela Marshall (1954): Carvoeiro Clifftop Walk (Première)

Henning: Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be, Op. 191 (Première)

I was supposed to conduct, but a chest cold kept me at home, and the band felt sufficiently well prepared to plays sans dirigeur.