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Karl Henning is a music composer and holds a B.Mus. with double major in composition. Follow this blog to read beautiful compositions written by Karl Henning.
henningmusick
14h ago
Insofar as I understand this country song, notwithstanding her evil ways she was the sunshine of his days.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
“Do you hear music, Jeeves?”
“Of a sort, sir.”
— P.G. Wodehouse
Part VI
I seem to have a chicken-and-egg puzzle here, the two items under advisement being the Zappa movie, itself and its accompanying soundtrack.
Before going on (or back) let me clarify this much: the occasion for this post is revisitation of the 3-CD soundtrack release.
So, Alex Winter’s documentary Zappa was released 27 Nov 2020. I was then deep into my second year of w ..read more
henningmusick
14h ago
Quoth Alexa: “I’'s 1:06 PM, Hope you had a good Monday.” Taking her mechanized chatter as a peculiar given, you’ve got to like the implication that Monday concluded around 1 PM.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
... small twinkling eyes, and a singular expression hovering about that region of his face, which was not a frown, nor a leer, And yet might have been mistaken at the first glance for either. Indeed it would have been difficult, on a much closer acquaintance, to describe it in any more satisfactory terms than as a mixed expression of vulgar cunning and conceit.
— Dickens ..read more
henningmusick
6d ago
What the WCRB jockey says: This legendary recording of the Sibelius Third Symphony.
What it may just mean: The only recording of the Sibelius Third Symphony I’ve heard.
And I’ve just invented a new musical genre: the zone poem. Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
There is no half position on bigotry. Bigotry condoned is bigotry.
— Dan Rather
I dreamt I was mentally composing a piece for two guitars, The Non-Whirl Dervish. I seemed to be aware that I was composing in a dream, and I was taken with the idea and musical content of the piece, so I made a point of peeling a sheet ..read more
henningmusick
1w ago
Just when you think all the laughs on Facebook have been exhausted ... right there, below “Pages similar to William Shakespeare,” is The Da Vinci Code
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
My mother had once said to me, “Not everybody is going to think you are as cute and love you like I do.” She sure was right.
— Lewis Grizzard, If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground
Just had a good catch-up phone call with my friend and colleague, Kevin Scott. Triad sang a motet of Kevin’s at our last concert. Orlando Cela will conduct the Lowell Chamber Orchestra i ..read more
henningmusick
1w ago
Babalú bamboo
Ribald rebels
Iraqi earache
Rogue dirigible!
– Postcards From Red Squirrel Trail
A painting is not a picture of an experience, it is an experience.
— Mark Rothko
As reported here, Lord of the Things will, erm, ring out in Tempe, Arizona on Saturday, February 22, at 7:00 PM at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church. ’Tis pity I shan’t be able to attend in person. Nevertheless, I am thrilled at what appears to be the première of henningmusick in The Apache State ..read more
henningmusick
2w ago
The Roofs of Rhythm
To runce the irruncible spoon ....
Kennst du Schenectady?
An unused Agnus Dei.
Odorless green ideas smell furiously.
– Postcards From Red Squirrel Trail
I know, I know: you’re a woman who’s been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but you’ll have to stay in the garage all night.
— Groucho Marx in Monkey Business
Since (as noted erewhile) Uncle Meat was an early Zappa acquisition of mine, I especially enjoy the fact that the show documented on Disc Four of the Over-Nite Sensation 50th anniversary box (in Detroit’s Cobo Hall ..read more
henningmusick
2w ago
Knowing that there are gardeners who tend the monarchical residences, I am less harsh on myself for misreading the phrase as “Royal Weeding.”
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
Just me and the pygmy pony, over by the dental floss bush.
— Frank Zappa, “Montana”
The Over-Nite Sensation 50th anniversary box came in. I began with listening to the blu-ray audio (It’s an interesting industry artifact that Zappa prepared the album in a quadraphonic mix—and fittingly enough the subject of the song “Camarillo Brillo” says her stereo is four-way) Purely as regards my personal feeling ..read more
henningmusick
3w ago
The date rarely figures in my dreams, so when it does, of course it goes funny. Dreamt that today is January 48th. You can imagine my puzzlement. Almost everyone I asked agreed that January should have 31 days, except one who suggested, "Maybe it was decided to have 50 days in January this year.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
It’s depressing that “Secret Agent” has become synonymous with “Sex Maniac.”
— David Niven as Bond, James Bond in Casino Royale (1967)
Gentle Reader, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve reported here on
this blog that my piece was not selected ..read more
henningmusick
3w ago
“But I won’t try driving over the George Washington Bridge the day before Thanksgiving. I would do anything for love. But I won’t do that. What, are you meshuggah?”
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)
Gross and perverted am I, but look away you cannot.
— Yoda, performing “I’m the Slime”
A week ago, I was still dithering over whether to pull the trigger on
The Hot Rats Sessions. Could I find it cheaper anywhere? My first
thought was to try zappa.com. Natural enough, right? No dice.
Didn't find it there then, don’t find it there today. The only
apparently relevant search res ..read more
henningmusick
3w ago
What if the first phrase your parakeet learns is “Alexa, pause”...?
With apologies to Ben Britten, I just misread that as “Our Hurting Fathers.”
A place called (or subtitled) The Sushi & Tequila Experience does set me to wondering, if it’s the sort of experience people wish to repeat.
Leave it to Facebook to highlight “catalogue” as if it were a misspelling.
– Postcards From Red Squirrel Trail
I had let her talk on, for her voice was like a solution of all musical sounds. I now told her that I could hardly say whether women were happy or not. I knew one who had not been happy; and ..read more