Fwd: "phonetic transcript"

[Mark Mandel]

>From the PRI "The World" website (
http://www.theworld.org/2010/03/15/american-masterpiece-at-the-prado/):

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The "phonetic transcript" is, of course, in ordinary English orthography,
beginning:

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MARCO WERMAN:  Last October I spoke with Erica Hirshler, a curator at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, about John Singer Sargent’s great 19th century
painting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.  Hirshler had just published a
book about the painting called “Sargent’s Daughters”.

ERICA HIRSHLER:  They’re four little girls, each one wearing white.  Three
of them in white pinafores and the littlest one in a white dress.  Two of
them stand in the background in the shadows.  One of those girls leans
against one of the large Japanese vases.

WERMAN: Well this week Erica Hirshler is in Madrid with the Sargent
painting.  It rarely travels and it has never been to Spain.  But for the
next two and a half months it will hang at the Prado Museum in Madrid next
to the 17th century Spanish masterpiece that inspired it.  That painting is
Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez.  It is also a portrait of little girls, most
notably the five-year-old Princess Infanta at its center.
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