How Much Does a Beginner Piano Transcriptionist Make?
Beginner Piano Transcriptionist Make Unlike many salaried jobs in which the transcriptionist is paid a set amount per hour, transcription work is generally paid by the word. This means that a beginner piano transcriptionist’s income can vary widely depending on…
What is Difference Between Piano Translation and Piano Transcription?
Piano Translation and Piano Transcription Piano transcription is a musical form that involves the creation of sheet music from an original piece of recorded music. This process often requires the use of music notation software to reduce the sound file…
A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
New York is still reeling from the pandemic. Almost 35,000 people have died from covid in the city; temporary morgues, in the form of refrigerated vans, were set up to store victims’ bodies. Many residents have left dense urban areas…
A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
The Man from the Future. By Ananyo Bhattacharya. Allen Lane; 368 pages; £20. To be published in America in February by W.W. Norton & Company; $30 IN 1945, WHILE in a state of exhaustion, the mathematician John von Neumann had…
Colm Toibin’s new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
The Magician. By Colm Toibin. Scribner; 512 pages; $28. Viking; £18.99 THOMAS MANN’S last, unfinished novel tells of a confidence trickster named Felix Krull. In “The Magician”, Colm Toibin’s fictionalised portrait of the great German writer, the ageing Mann thinks…
Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
On October 7th the Swedish Academy awarded Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian writer based in Britain, the Nobel prize in Literature for 2021 for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in…
The New York Public Library mines its archive of 56m objects
IT IS AN elegant, if slightly worn, writing desk (see picture below). Carved from mahogany, it has two drawers and a wide writing slope, and is accompanied by a simple wooden chair. The bureau might be considered unremarkable, except that…
Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
Aftershocks. By Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright. St. Martin’s Press; 464 pages; $29.99 and £23.99 Geopolitics for the End Time. By Bruno Maçães. Hurst; 240 pages; £18.99 THERE ARE few monuments to the tens of millions of victims of the…
How an English miner’s daughter rose to work in the White House
There is Nothing for You Here. By Fiona Hill. Mariner Books; 432 pages; $30 WHO WAS the woman with the strange British accent testifying to Congress during the hearings for President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, suddenly in the spotlight and…
An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it’s done
Net Positive. By Paul Polman and Andrew Winston. Harvard Business Review Press; 352 pages; $30 and £22 WHAT IS THE purpose of a company? For some, the answer is simple: to make as much money for shareholders as the law…