Translating Italian into music
Translations are made of visual signs on the page or screen. But they are also made of patterns of sound, with vowels clipped or sonorous
05/09/2020
Translations are made of visual signs on the page or screen. But they are also made of patterns of sound, with vowels clipped or sonorous
Dear ACES and Sarah Grey Many thanks for your recent webcast on editing translations. It contains much of value. (I also enjoyed Sarah’s excellent online
What strange days we find ourselves living in. What unprecedented days. Days of concern and apprehension, of great threats and radical countermeasures. How are you
If a speaker programme’s success can be measured by how many notes you make, then SATT19 was something of a triumph. Nine pages of scrawl
“‘If I began to think about these things, I was stopped, because so much came back to me, so many desires, so many old affronts’
I had a rude awakening the other week. (No, not the neighbour’s daughter’s Sunday morning trombone practice again, or at least I hope that’s what
What’s in a name? Would a translation “slam” by any other name sound as puerile and pseudo-confrontational? A tad harsh, perhaps, but I’m not a
When is it done? I’ve wondered out loud more than once in recent months about when we consider our work fit to ship. My broad
[This is the text of a 5-minute talk with a difference that I presented at the ITI One Day in … event on 16 June
What’s the most important thing you’ve ever written? A couple of weeks ago, I had to craft what for me is probably the most momentous