Hopping Proper at Last

 My new favorite part of 1934’s The Man Who Knew Too Much? Just before the conductor gives the big opening downbeat, a bloke in the Albert Hall audience coughs. Bless Hitch for his realism!

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

In July of 2023, I first composed Music for the Un-Hip Hop, Op. 178. However, yesterday it grievously yet altogether rightly came to my belated attention that the page turns for both flutists were utterly verkakte, to employ the musically correct term. Did I know this in 2023, and “simply assumed” that the players would read from the score? (as if turning pages would somehow not be an issue in that case.) Whatever the insufficient case might be, I cleaned things up so that both flutists have manageable page turns. This process involved the insertion of some material here and there, so the piece is both brand-new, and yet much the same.

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Bringing on the Amorphous, Altering the Hooch

Holding your supplemental hymnal while the neighbors decide,
Why is a vegetable something to hide?

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

I like being Spock. But I like myself too. I'd like to be me independent of him. I try—very hard, but it's tough. Sometimes I think I've done it. Sometimes I work very hard at doing my things, thinking my own thoughts. To be me, Leonard Nimoy. Sometimes I think I've got it made! Then I'll get on an airplane and somebody'll flash me a Vulcan salute. Or some nice lady will ask for my autograph and I'll proudly sign, "Leonard Nimoy," and then she'll say, "please sign Mr Spock. That's the way my son knows you.

— Leonard Nimoy, I Am Not Spock

Pursuant to the need  expressed here, to have more lower voice and/or timbres other than C Flute for the April King’s Chapel concert, not only have I composed Amorphous and Forward-Looking, Op. 196, but I swapped a B-flat Clarinet for one of the C Flutes in Snootful of Hooch (that means Op. 159b) We did not read either piece at today’s Henning Ensemble rehearsal, as we had the full quartet. We therefore read both Alan Westby’s revised Quiet Girl and my Dark Side of the Sun. We also came up with some dates, so let's see if we can ink in another concert.

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