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Scene 6

KHAOS – Scene 6 Well it’s 3 months into the new year and ages since anything has been posted on the site. This absence is actually due to real progress on the libretto writing front as well as some modest Read more

By Don, ago

Music Study No 2

Music Study No 2 Seven Sisters Dancing – I wrote a few images down on a piece of paper (wind over ice –  etc.) and then my wife Allison came up with the image of seven sisters dancing – an Read more

By Don, ago

The Look

Post by Don Macdonald – Nicola included a few references to images in her early notes about the opera:  ” Stilts, skeletons, a march”.  I created the image below using photo shop for fun to see what I could come Read more

By Don, ago

News

Welcome to the KHAOS  website. Composer Don Macdonald and writer/librettist Nicola Harwood have  been commissioned by the Amy Ferguson Institute to write a full length opera called “KHAOS”, a re-imagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter that reinforces our Read more

By Don, ago

Music Study No. 1

Study #1) NOV 2009 Compilation. This piece is a study exploring a potential thematic concept for Persephone, some darker harmonic ideas later that may work for the world that Hades has created and an ending that explores the tragedy of Read more

By Don, ago
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