Opus 197 Done

 I don’t know what it is, but a game titled Bricks Ball Crusher has zero appeal for me....
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

I fear and dislike the music of Arnold Schoenberg... Schoenberg is the cruelest of all composers for he mingles with his music sharp daggers at white heat, with which he pares away tiny slices of his victim’s flesh
— A critic for The New York Times, not taking Pierrot Lunaire at all well (19 Jan 1913)

I was, perhaps predictably, jazzed by the supremely positive experience of Tuesday’s concert at King’s Chapel, and so yesterday I pert near sprinted to the finish of the Fantasia on a Theme by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. As befits the notion of conceptual continuity (expounded by a well-known—perhaps even notorious—20th-c. American musical figure, the Fantasia makes use of a point of imitation which first appeared in Crazy in a Bottle. Also, as to whether I honored my original concept of a piece to serve dual duty for the Redeemer Recorder, and Karl Henning Ensembles, or instead wrote distinct pieces suited to each particular outfit: Yes to both, as the Op. 197 absorbs passages of the Op. 198 in places.