The program, part of an 11-concert American tour, also features concertos by Vivaldi and Albinoni, some of the many scores she has transcribed for trumpet.
Throughout the piece, Ms. Roberts intersperses slippery musical motifs with bits of prose, both spoken and sung, that she has transcribed from conversations with her maternal grandmother.
(It could at least get colorful: one ex-worker, Tarita Virtue, posed in lingerie for Maxim as "America's hottest private eye," before telling the F.B.I. that she had transcribed hundreds of Mr. Pellicano's wiretaps).
By D. Bestwick and St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, June 25 , 1955P. 22 We have already told about the dean's secretary who said "Darn it, I keep doing that all the time," when it was pointed out to her that she had transcribed "Puerto Ricans", when the dean dictated "Board of Regents".
These include U2's Bono, Andrew White (who has transcribed 650 Coltrane solos), Branford Marsalis, and Coltrane's saxophonist son Ravi.
He has transcribed since his early career, focusing on arranging classical scores before turning to the pop world.
"I knew her voice was important," said Ms. Red Shirt, who has transcribed and translated the conversations for a book, "Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter".
One chapter, or sura, that he has transcribed, "The Romans," celebrates humankind's "varieties of language and color" as one of God's many signs.
While studying West African music in the early seventies, Chernoff befriended Hawa, a high-spirited, illiterate Ghanaian woman whose street-smarts and garrulousness inspired him to record a series of autobiographical interviews, which he has transcribed and edited.
Aides have become accustomed to a deluge of "snowflakes" from Mr. Rumsfeld -- a seemingly endless flurry of questions, problems or assignments he dictates into a Dictaphone and has transcribed by secretaries and dispatched to all areas of the Pentagon.
Towleroad has transcribed excerpts from the new interview.
