Evensong in Boston, 19 March 06

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:31 pm

Evensong in Lent Featuring Newly Composed Music of Karl Henning

Cathedral Church of St Paul, 138 Tremont St, Boston
Sunday, 19 March, 4:00pm

Prelude (trombone duet)
Preces (officiant & choir)
Preface to O Gracious Light (trombone duet)
O Gracious Light (choir SATB)
Preface to the Psalm (trombone duet)
Psalm 91 (traditional Maronite chant)
Preface to the Magnificat (trombone duet)
Magnificat (choir SATB)
Preface to the Nunc dimittis (trombone duet)
Nunc dimittis (choir SATB)
Suffrages (officiant & choir)
Anthem: Bless the Lord at All Times (choir SATB)
Hymn: "O kind Creator, bow thine ear" (tune: San Rafaello)
Concluding Versicle & Response (officiant & choir)
Postlude (trombone duet)

Trombone students from the New England Conservatory will assist.

Huckleberry · Post by **Huckleberry** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:20 pm

Karl Henning, you do us proud!

Is is possible for us to $BUY$ a CD featuring your compositions?

And do let us know how the Lenten Evening is received.

Post by **Lance** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:24 pm

Congratulations, Karl! It looks like a most interesting program. Is Boston Symphony trombonist Doug Yeo participating by any chance?

If my daughter was still living in Boston, you can be sure I would be there!

Good luck with your concert ... any chance for a recording? I would love to hear some of this.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:34 pm

Gratulatio!

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:59 pm

I second Lance and Gary.

Panzerfaust · Post by **Panzerfaust** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:08 am

Congratulations!!!
I live in MA, maybe I could attend. Is this open to the public? Is there a charge for admission? I'd love to hear your work!

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:57 am

Panzerfaust wrote:Congratulations!!!
I live in MA, maybe I could attend. Is this open to the public? Is there a charge for admission? I'd love to hear your work!

Splendid! Yes, open to the public; no admission charge as such, though there is a basket for voluntary donations. Be sure to say hi afterwards.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:59 am

Lance wrote:Congratulations, Karl! It looks like a most interesting program. Is Boston Symphony trombonist Doug Yeo participating by any chance?

No, but I am pretty sure that my bass trombonist must be a student of his.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:05 pm

Huckleberry wrote:Karl Henning, you do us proud!

Is is possible for us to $BUY$ a CD featuring your compositions?

Thank you, Huck!

It isn't quite 'featuring' . . . but the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble has a 25th-anniversary disc, which includes my modest Alleluia in D

jbuck919 · Post by **jbuck919** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:18 pm

I've been putting off responding to this one because Karl will need at least one extra bass and I hesitate to bill the church for my transatlantic round trip plus expenses.

Huckleberry · Post by **Huckleberry** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:11 pm

karlhenning wrote:
Huckleberry wrote:Karl Henning, you do us proud!

Is is possible for us to $BUY$ a CD featuring your compositions?
Thank you, Huck!

It isn't quite 'featuring' . . . but the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble has a 25th-anniversary disc, which includes my modest Alleluia in D

Karl, I have bookmarked the page. When do you think the 25th Anniversary CD will be on sale?

How did the Sante Fe Women's Ensemble find you?

C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S, again!

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:45 am

Huckleberry wrote:Karl, I have bookmarked the page. When do you think the 25th Anniversary CD will be on sale?

A colleague in New York tells me that a message came from the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble administration, to say that the disc is now available.

How did the Sante Fe Women's Ensemble find you?

I don't know, and that is good! I need to get to a place where performances and publication of my music is not always a direct result of my own efforts. :-)

Many thanks again, Huck!

. . . Also, the test-drive of the Nunc dimittis at Communion yesterday went very well!

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:27 am

The 12 March 'dress rehearsal' of the Nunc dimittis will be part of this Sunday's broadcast on Boston's WCRB (102.5 FM) at 7:30am.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:22 pm

Evensong went very well, the choir sang beautifully.

Thanks to all for your warm thoughts!

jbuck919 · Post by **jbuck919** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:51 pm

karlhenning wrote:The 12 March 'dress rehearsal' of the Nunc dimittis will be part of this Sunday's broadcast on Boston's WCRB (102.5 FM) at 7:30am.

That's 14:30 local time (we go to daylight saving a week earlier than you do). Does that station have a live feed?

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:58 pm

jbuck919 wrote:
karlhenning wrote:The 12 March 'dress rehearsal' of the Nunc dimittis will be part of this Sunday's broadcast on Boston's WCRB (102.5 FM) at 7:30am.
That's 14:30 local time (we go to daylight saving a week earlier than you do). Does that station have a live feed?

No, it does not, I fear.

The recording came out reasonably well for the Evensong, and in a week or so I will have it in send-out-able condition.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:19 pm

Karl,
I know this is off-topic, but I'm glad I didn't buy those tickets for the BSO concert this coming week (we had talked about it a while back). I understand Temirkanov has cancelled. I would have been pissed if I had spent the money and purchased an airline ticket to go up there and see him, only to have him not show.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:02 pm

Hmph; first Levine takes a tumble, and now Temirkanov . . . .

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:26 pm

Barry Z wrote:I understand Temirkanov has cancelled. I would have been pissed if I had spent the money and purchased an airline ticket to go up there and see him, only to have him not show.

Opera fans have to live with this phenomenon everytime they plan an opera vacation to hear a specific singer. My favorite mezzo, Brigitte Fassbaender, toward the end of her singing career (she began another career as intendant when she stopped singing) often disappointed fans who traveled especially to hear her. A colleague at IRS and his companion, who was the real opera nut in the family, had traveled on 3 separate occasions, to New York, London, and the west coast, to hear her sing and never did before she retired.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:51 pm

It's not only operal fans. I scheduled my two trips to Amsterdam in 2000 and 2001 around Concertgebouw oncerts that interested me. The second one was Bruckner's 5th under Thielemann. He cancelled and was replaced by Inbal. The Orchestra sounded glorious playing Bruckner in that hall, but it was a strange performance interpretively.

And now Sawallisch has cancelled for the set of concerts he was supposed to conduct here with the Philadelphia Orchestra beginning this week due to health reasons. At one point, I thought the next week and a half might wind up being a personal Brahms festival with the potential for spectacular performances of Brahms D-Minor concerto and first symphony under Sawallisch (and Buchbinder in the concerto) and the fourth symphony under Temirkanov). I'll still go to the concerto performance. Hans Graff is subbing for Sawallisch. This is probably my single favorite concerto and I practically salivate when I think about hearing the Philadelphia Orchestra with the sound they put out while Sawallisch is on the podium playing those big orchestral salvos in the first movement. He also cancelled the only other time he was supposed to conduct it here, in the late 90s. Pollini was the soloist that time. I guess it's just not meant to be.

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:59 pm

Huckleberry wrote:Karl Henning, you do us proud!

Is is possible for us to $BUY$ a CD featuring your compositions?

And do let us know how the Lenten Evening is received.

Karl sent me a file the rehearsal for his Nunc Dimitis. I am impressed with both the composition and the choir.

Good on ya, mate!

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:01 pm

karlhenning wrote:Hmph; first Levine takes a tumble, and now Temirkanov . . . .

I read on another board that Temirkanov's absence is due to the death of a close friend.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:34 pm

Two items from the March Evensong for your listening pleasure:

Preface to the Nunc dimittis (two trombones)

Nunc dimittis (choir SATB)

jbuck919 · Post by **jbuck919** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:17 pm

Extraordinary, Karl. Deeply moving. I am quite in tears. How you caputured in your trombone duet the winsomeness of a man who is ready to die because he has literally seen everything, the ambivalence of a devout man about to go to sleep knowing that the end of every day is much like the end of life.

The following is excerpted and slightly rearranged from the Wikipedia for our posters who do not know the details:

"Nunc dimittis" is the Latin name of the passage in the second chapter of Luke (Luke 2:29–32) that is also commonly called the Canticle of Simeon. Simeon was a devout Jew who had been promised by the Holy Ghost that he would not die until he had seen the Saviour. When Mary and Joseph brought the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem for his circumcision, Simeon was there, and he took Jesus into his arms and uttered words rendered variously as follows:

Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace:
Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum
Quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum:
Lumen ad revelationem gentium, et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.

According to the Douay-Rheims Translation

(A literal translation of the Vulgate made in the 17th century):

Now Thou dost dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, according to Thy word in peace.
Because mine eyes have seen Thy salvation
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples:
A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of Thy people Israel.

Many composers have set the text to music, usually coupled with the Magnificat, as both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis are sung during the Anglican/Episcopal Evensong service (see: Book of Common Prayer). The Nunc Dimittis is sung or said during the Roman Catholic Compline service as well.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Fri May 12, 2006 2:15 pm

Thank you kindly, John.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Sat May 13, 2006 7:04 am

karlhenning wrote:Two items from the March Evensong for your listening pleasure:

Thanks, Karl.
I d-loaded both files and plan to listen properly thru my sound system as soon as I hook my laptop up to it.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:00 pm

jserraglio wrote:Thanks, Karl.
I d-loaded both files and plan to listen properly thru my sound system as soon as I hook my laptop up to it.

Any luck?

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