Francisco Vila wrote:
Hi all,
Valentin Villenave, one of our LilyPond gurus has been briefly
interviewed on a good quality Spanish magazine, Opera Actual[1]; I
enclose an English translation in the attached zip. Feel free to
improve the English wording or spelling of my translation draft. I
still don't know if it is a Spanish-only magazine.
LilyPond is mentioned among many inaccuracies, but it is always
pleasing to see this great piece of sofware in a widely spread,
printed public medium. The opera is a remarkable case partly because
it is licensed[9] as a piece of free sofware, in a form that matches
the goals of Creative Commons and the GPL. Its source code is freely
available, of course we are talking about music so this is only
possible thanks to a typesetting language such as LilyPond.
Valentin is also mentioned in the same magazine here[2] and here[3]
May the opera be a great success!
Other references to the Opera Libre /Affaire Étrangère/ are in [4][5][6][7][8].
Thanks for sending this, Francisco! Congratulations, Valentin! I found
only a couple of things to fix in the English translation. Patch
attached.
Jon
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Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com
--- opera-actual-v-villenave.stripped.txt 2009-01-15 04:51:39.000000000 -0600
+++ opera-actual-v-villenave.strippedB.txt 2009-01-16 06:42:51.000000000 -0600
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
ÃPERA ACTUAL: Which was you musical education background?
VALENTIN VILLENAVE: My parents are actors and I began studying
- piano at nine. At twelve I already used to accompain variety shows
+ piano at nine. At twelve I already used to accompany variety shows
artists. Later I got interested in jazz and classical music. So I
- have got the opportunity to accompain to a crowd of young artists in
+ have got the opportunity to accompany to a crowd of young artists in
a rather large number of operas, mainly Mozart and Britten operas.
Ã. A.: How was the birth of the opera Affaire étrangère?
V. V.: At twenty I decided to compose an opera. I was inspired
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
contemporary music scores is so complicated that what you hear
doesn't match, most times, what it is written down onto staves. We
are talking of my first large work and I hope other ones will follow
- it. In fact, I already have a new project altogether with
+ it. In fact, I already have a new project with
L. Trondheim.
Ã. A.: Are you aware of today's works?
V. V.: I have a very well based background on contemporary
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