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Automatic Programme Note Generator

4/20/2014

A refreshing approach to programme notes.

Here it is (a little late for April Fool’s Day): The Automatic Classical Music Programme Note Generator.

Why pay for clichés when you can get them for free? The Automatic Classical Music Programme Note Generator is an easy-to-use alternative to paying some fusty old pedant to write boring programme notes for your upcoming concert.

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COC's Hercules

4/18/2014

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A scene from Hercules (photo: Michael Cooper)

I expect that most of the people who arrived at the Four Seasons Centre on Tuesday (April 15) to attend the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Handel’s Hercules had probably seen the piece staged as often as I had – exactly never. So I think it’s fitting to begin these remarks with a tip of the hat to the COC for bringing this rarely heard work to Toronto.

And what was this Hercules (a co-production with Chicago’s Lyric Opera) like? At first glance, it appeared to be a modest and rather static affair, half opera and half oratorio. There are only five principal cast members, the orchestra is smallishly baroque in size – and George Tsypin’s one-piece set for the production is a sparse-looking Greek ruin.

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