My TouchPad Today: The TouchPad, The Grinch and The Boston Pops

More wanderings with the TouchPad and Pre 2 in tow...


Over the weekend my TouchPad returned to Symphony Hall in Boston for its second visit in less than a month. No, the TP isn't becoming a classical music fan. The occasion was a Holiday Pops concert by the Boston Pops which my wife and I took in on Saturday afternoon.

The Boston Pops and The Grinch - HP Pre 2 Photo

Each December since the 1970's, the Pops do a series of concerts featuring traditional and popular songs for the holiday season.

Click here for a review of the December 7th performance from the Boston Globe.

Image from BSO.org

Typically, the program has a special segment... a few years ago it was music from the film The Polar Express accompanied by a reading from the original book on which the movie was based. This year -- see photo above -- the segment was a reading (by Jeremiah Kissel) from Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas with the Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart in support.

Oh, by the way, the TP was not working on this visit to Symphony Hall... the Holiday Pops program notes are not available online.

Do the BSO and Pops have a grinch of their own living in Symphony Hall?



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My TouchPad Today: TouchPad goes to Symphony Hall

More wanderings with the TouchPad and Pre2 in tow...

Last weekend the TouchPad accompanied the wife and me to Boston's Symphony Hall for the Handel and Haydn Society performance of Handel's Messiah.

Symphony Hall, Boston, MA - HP Pre2 Photo

The TP wasn't just along for the ride, it was there to work!

Based on past visits to Symphony Hall -- for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops -- I knew it can be difficult in the half-light of the hall to read and follow the goings on via the program booklet.

My first thought was to go out and download the program from the H&H Society website for use on the TouchPad.

Alas, this was not to be. The H&H does not have downloadable programs on its site. What they do is post the program on the website of a service (that will go unnamed here) which is a poor choice for navigation and reading on a PC web browser, nevermind how it reads/navigates in a tablet-based browser.

HP TouchPad Screen Capture

The solution (see TP screen cap above) was to download and print to PDF the libretto of Messiah from one of a number of places it is available on the web.

Thus armed, we journeyed to Symphony Hall and I managed to stay awake during the two hour and forty-five minute performance!



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