Henningmusick

[karlhenning]

My big news is that, 17 years later, I have at last finished my ballet, White Nights, Op.75


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[barney]

Congratulations! What an achievement.

[Lance]

Indeed, congratulations, Karl. Was there a lot of revising earlier material to get to the conclusion? I like the name, "White Nights" - it conjures up much in the imagination!

[karlhenning]

Indeed, congratulations, Karl. Was there a lot of revising earlier material to get to the conclusion? I like the name, "White Nights" - it conjures up much in the imagination!

As I periodically resumed work, I generally went back to review, so there was not much which required alteration, as I neared the end.

Once I completed Scene 8, At the opera, which is largely a kind of "mash-up" of Rossini's Overtures to both Il barbiere di Seviglia and La gazza ladra, and is the 11th number of the ballet, I realized that I could indeed reinforce motivic connections across the entire piece by reprising/adapting earlier material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI2K5V7 ... dex=3&t=0s

[karlhenning]

I caught up with my publisher on the phone t'other day (the Lux Nova imprint of the Opus 28 organ pieces, including a mighty challenging Toccata, will be ready soon) pianist and Naxos recording artist Giorgio Koukl (whom I met some years ago in Milan, and who is also a composer in the Lux Nova stable, so to speak) and my publisher are beginning to plan a CD of American piano solo music. He's going to suggest that Giorgio arrange my harp suite Lost Waters for piano, which would also give Giorgio an arrangement credit. And, of course, I remembered that Erik Mazonson had played my "Barbara Allen" variations, Gaze Transfixt on 21 June 2010 ... although I had forgotten that Erik also played Lutosławski’s Lullaby on that concert. So there should quite a packet of Henningmusick be represented on the disc.