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Showing posts with label copy-editing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copy-editing. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Season Updates from San Francisco Symphony

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Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch S.F. Symphony has announced some additions and updates to the 2025-26 season. As I had e...
Monday, December 04, 2023

Inquiring Minds Want to Know....

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.....why the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker , and San Francisco Classical Voice all think they know better than th...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Awaiting the Correction.

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An opera company I won't name just made an entertaining error in the email announcing their 2017-18 season. And I can tell you exactly w...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Why You Need the Serial Comma

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Found in the NY Times: He lived in the village of Malverne in Nassau County with his wife, Patricia Ann Norris-McDonald, the mayor of the ...
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Sunday, May 01, 2016

Production Error

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Found in today's San Francisco Chronicle pink section on page 3: Here is an enlargement of the critical section: The program...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

Ouch.

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I opened the season brochure for Symphony Silicon Valley and found a program called Prokofiev & Sinfonietta, but the composer of the Sin...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Somebody Caught This Before I Could Report It.

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A correction posted at the NY Times, at the bottom of  a fascinating story about the discovery of human remains at Jamestown, Virginia: C...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Proof-Reading Redux

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I got asked a while back about my "obsession" with typos and so on. Well, sometimes typos have expensive consequences: here are a ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Why We Need Proofreaders

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Received in the mail, a fund-raising letter over David Gockley's name and signature. Somewhere in the bowels of the War Memorial Opera H...
Saturday, January 04, 2014

The Times Does It Again

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You would almost think their music reviewers and editors are unaware of the existence of the Metropolitan Opera Archive . Here's a scree...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Doesn't Anybody Bother to Edit this Stuff?

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And don't they know anything about music? Found in the Times compendium of classical music box sets and books : "...a former Bri...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Oh, TIMES!!!

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Found in an article about the new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Among the others on an unusually star-studded list of 1...
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Monday, October 07, 2013

OMG!

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Seen in the NY Times: an umlaut! I thought their style guide was based on hot type (or something) that didn't have diacriticals, but t...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Annals of Copy-Editing

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Found in Leitmotive , the quarterly journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California: In a photo caption on page 11, Jon Vickers. In...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Not Exactly a Contest, But...

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...I invite you to imagine what LA Opera's "English translations" of the Albert Herring  libretto might be:
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Friday, December 16, 2011

The Decline of Copy-Editing

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You have to wonder: China Mieville's novel Kraken uses it's where its is clearly meant, just a few pages in. GROAN. Mary Roach...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Copy-Editors Wanted, Voice Type Edition

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Which prominent member of the Four Saints cast was listed as a voice type completely at odds with every other mention of the singer I have ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Annals of Proofreading and Stupidity

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The NY Times's writers and editors have a problem distinguishing between "libertarian" and "liberal."  Found on page...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Personal to the NYPO's Web Editors

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Pssst: the headline refers to a composer named "Nielson," the body text to "Nielsen." The body text is correct. I have a...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Shame, the Shame

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The Brandeis Justice, for which I once wrote reviews, issues a correction : An article in Arts incorrectly identified the opera Madame Butte...
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