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=== memory and music ===
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| [[Norbert Joachim]]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#5 May|5 May]] · sing choral concert
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| Bach:
| [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#4 May 2024|Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6]]
| [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#7 April 2024|Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104]]
| [[Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11|Ascension Oratorio]]
| [https://barockvokalakademie.de/heinz-frankenbach-preis/ Emilie Jønsson]
| [https://www.lieselottefink.de/ Lieselotte Fink]
| [[User:Gerda_Arendt/Stories#29 March 2024|Benedikt Kristjánsson]]
| [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#2 May 2024|Johannes Hill]]
| Chor St. Martin · Martinis · Nassau-Barock }}
[https://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/kreis-rheingau-taunus/idstein-kreis-rheingau-taunus/himmelfahrtsoratorium-in-der-katholischen-kirche-st-martin-3546272 review]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#28 Apr|28 April]] · concert
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| normal = {{ubl| [[MARTa Herford]]
| Marta philharmonisch:
| Tiefenrausch
| Five double bassists of the
| [[Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie]] }}
[https://marta-herford.de/en/kalender/marta-philharmonisch/ program]
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| [[Nun singt ein neues Lied dem Herren]]
| [[Heute der Tag, vom Herrn gemacht]]
| [[Ist das der Leib, Herr Jesu Christ]]
| [[Christus ist erstanden! O tönt]] }}
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'''| [[Petite messe solennelle]]''
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMuIv3ocl0Q Music from Ukraine]
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| [[Wohl denen, die da wandeln]]
| [[Erfreue dich, Himmel, erfreue dich, Erde]]
| [[Herr, segne uns]]
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| [[Heinrich Bone|Lass erschallen die Posaune]]
| Martinis
| Pärt: [[Fratres]]
| '''Mozart: [[Requiem (Mozart)|Requiem]]'''
| Pärt: [[Da pacem Domine (Pärt)|Da pacem Domine]]
| Chor St. Martin
| Martinis
| Nassauische Kammerphilharmonie
| (with period instruments)
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| [[Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Kempf)|Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied]]
| Mass (Kyrie and Gloria)
| [[Halleluja! Lobet Gott in seinem Heiligtum]]
| [[Psalm 150]]
| [[Gott, der du warst und bist und bleibst]]
| [[Look at the world]]
| [[A Clare Benediction]]
| Martinis
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| '''[[Lobet den Herren]]'''
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| [[Aus den Dörfern und aus Städten]]
| [[Hilf, Herr meines Lebens]]
| [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#16 Jul|16 July]] in honour of Conny S.-M.
| [[Alle meine Quellen entspringen in dir]]
| [[Gloria, Ehre sei Gott]]
| [[Weite Räume meinen Füßen]]
| [[Nimm, o Gott, die Gaben, die wir bringen]]
| [[Und meine Seele singt]]
| [[Der Herr wird dich mit seiner Güte segnen]] }}
| [[Ich will dich lieben, meine Stärke]]
| [[Nun danket all und bringet Ehr]]
| [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#2 Jul|2 July]] choirs' jubilee:
| Tambling: [[Messe in G (Tambling)|Messe in G]]
| Mozart: [[Ave verum corpus (Mozart)|Ave verum corpus]]
| Rutter: [[Now thank we all our God (Rutter)|Nun danket alle Gott]]
| 6 May
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| Bach: [[Mass in B minor structure|Mass in B minor]] }}--
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| Mozart: [[Maurerische Trauermusik]]
| [[Psalm 30]]
| [[Die Gedanken sind frei]]
| Brahms: [[Ein deutsches Requiem|Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras]]
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| image = Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, ceiling Großes Haus.jpg
| normal = {{ubl| [[Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden]]
| Puccini: [[Turandot]]
| Olesya Golovneva (Turandot)
| Aaron Cawley (Calaf)
| [[Heather Engebretson]] (Liù)
| Daniela Kerck, dir.
| [[Yoel Gamzou]], cond. }}
[https://kulturfreak.de/yoel-gamzou-und-daniela-kerck-ueberzeugen-mit-puccinis-turandot-am-staatstheater-wiesbaden review]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2019#October|26 October 2019]] · choral concert
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* Dvořák: [[Stabat Mater (Dvořák)|Stabat Mater]]
* [[Chor von St. Bonifatius]]
* Members of the orchestra of the<br /> [[Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden]]
* Betsy Horne, soprano
* Diana Schmid, alto
* [[Christian Rathgeber]], tenor
* [[Johannes Hill]], bass
* [[Roman Twardy]], conductor
* (dress rehearsal · [https://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/wiesbaden/nachrichten-wiesbaden/chor-von-st-bonifatius-in-wiesbaden-fuhrt-stabat-mater-von-dvorak-auf_20588382# review]) }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#17 Apr|17 April]] · recital
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| normal = {{ubl| Oper Frankfurt
| [[Franz Schreker|Schreker]]: Zwei Lieder, Op. 2
| [[Alexander von Zemlinsky|Zemlinsky]]: Turmwächterlied, Op. 8
| Mahler: [[Des Knaben Wunderhorn]]
| [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold|Korngold]]: Mond, so gehst du wieder auf, Op. 14
| Schönberg: [[Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schönberg)|Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1]]
| [[Liviu Holender]], baritone
| Lukas Rommelspacher, piano }}
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* [[Ernesto Cardenal]]: Psalm 150
* Handel: [[Messiah (Handel)#42|Halleluja]]
* Du wirst den Tod in uns wandeln in Licht
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajuq2-mUgO0 Halleluja in gospel version]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#14 Apr|14 April]] · opera
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| Handel: [[Giulio Cesare]]
| [[Lawrence Zazzo]] (Cesare)
| [[Pretty Yende]] (Cleopatra)
| Cláudia Ribas (Cornelia)
| [[Bianca Andrew]] (Sesto)
| [[Nils Wanderer]] (Tolemeo)
| [[Natascha Loschky]], dir.
| [[Simone Di Felipe]], cond. }}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZsJE6iGfz8 see and listen]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#30 Mar|30 March]] · concert
| image = Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Casals Forum.jpg
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Casals Forum]]
| [[Zoltan Almashi]]: Maria's City
| Ravel: [[Pavane pour une infante défunte]]
| Mendelssohn: [[Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)|Violin Concerto]]
| Schumann: [[Symphony No. 1 (Schumann)|Symphony No. 1]]
| '''[[Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine]]'''
| [[Dmytro Udovychenko]], violin
| '''[[Oksana Lyniv]]''', cond. }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#24 Mar|24 March]] · choral concert
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| normal = {{ubl | [[Eibingen Abbey]]
| Hildegard of Bingen: O cruor sanguinis
| Hammerschmidt: Vom Leiden Christi
| Bach: [[Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227]]
| Hammerschmidt: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
| chorART Rheingau}}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#17 Mar|17 March]] · service and procession
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#5 Mar|5 March]] · penitential service
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| [[Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn]]
| [[Meine Hoffnung und meine Freude]]
| [[Wo Menschen sich vergessen]] }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#3 Mar|3 March]] · opera
| image = Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, view from second tier to stage.jpg
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| Mozart: [[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]
| [[Kammeroper München]] }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#3 Mar|3 March]] · service
| image = St. Peter, Munich, service in Lent.jpg
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| normal = {{ubl | [[St. Peter's Church, Munich|St. Peter, Munich]]
| [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]]: Missa "Aeterna Christi munera"
| Christus factus est pro nobis
| Tantum ergo
| '''[[Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet]]''' }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#2 Jul|2 July 2023]] · opera
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Oper Frankfurt]]
| Zemlinsky: [[Der Traumgörge]]
| [[AJ Glueckert]] (Görge)
| [[Zuzana Marková (soprano)|Zuzana Marková]] (Gertraud)
| '''[[Magdalena Hinterdobler]]''' (Grete)
| [[Liviu Holender]] (Hans)
| [[Juanita Lascarro]] (Marei)
| [[Iain MacNeil]] (Kaspar)
| [[Tilmann Köhler]], dir.
| [[Markus Poschner]], cond. }}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-u2AMtNy9o look and listen]--
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#18 Feb|18 February]] · opera
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| Offenbach: [[Les brigands|Die Banditen]]
| {{nowrap|[[Gerard Schneider]]}} (Falsacappa)
| [[Elizabeth Reiter]] (Fiorella)
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| [[Kelsey Lauritano]] (Flagonello)
| [[Katharina Thoma]], dir.
| [[Karsten Januschke]], cond. }}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmeUerDfXl0 look + listen]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2022#November|4 November 2022]] · charity concert
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* [[Oreya|OREYA]]
* Music from Ukraine,
* from the 14th century to now
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMuIv3ocl0Q listen (different church)]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#3 Feb|3 February]] · service
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#28 Jan|28 January]] · service
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| normal = {{ill|Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Barlovento|es|Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Barlovento)|lt=Iglesia de Nuestra Señora<br /> del Rosario, Barlovento}}
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Maria Königin, Niedernhausen]]
| Ave Maria klare
| [[Hört, es singt und klingt mit Schalle|Mit den Hohen und Geringen]]
| [[Jauchzet, ihr Himmel]]
| [[Heilig, heilig, dreimal heilig]]
| [[Nun freut euch, ihr Christen|O sehet die Hirten]]
| [[Der Herr wird dich mit seiner Güte segnen]]
| [[Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit]]
| {{ill|Alle Tage sing und sage|de}} }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#28 Dec|28 December 2023]] · opera
| image = Bockenheimer Depot, Blühen.jpg
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Bockenheimer Depot]]
| Mozart: [[Ascanio in Alba]]
| [[Kateryna Kasper]] (Venus)
| [[Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)|Cecelia Hall]] (Ascanio)
| Karoline Bengtsson (Silvia)
| Andrew Kim (Aceste)
| [[Anna Nekhames]] (Fauno)
| Nina Brazier, dir.
| Lukas Rommelspacher, cond. }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#19 Dec|19 December 2023]] · opera
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]]
| Donizetti: [[Anna Bolena]]
| [[Riccardo Fassi]] (Enrico)
| [[Federica Lombardi]] (Anna)
| [[Vasilisa Berzhanskaya]] (Giovanna)
| [[René Barbera]] (Percy)
| [[Karis Tucker]] (Smeton)
| [[David Alden]] (dir.)
| [[Enrique Mazzola]] (cond.) }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#17 Dec|17 December 2023]] · opera
| image = Oper Frankfurt, Aida.jpg
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Oper Frankfurt]]
| Verdi: [[Aida]]
| [[Ekaterina Sannikova]] (Aida)
| [[Stefano La Colla]] (Radames)
| [[Claudia Mahnke]] (Amneris)
| [[Andreas Bauer Kanabas]] (Ramfis)
| [[Nicholas Brownlee]] (Amonasro)
| [[Lydia Steier]] (dir.)
| [[Erik Nielsen]] (cond.) }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#12 Dec|12 December 2023]] · opera
| image = Opernhaus Hannover in November.jpg
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Staatsoper Hannover]]
| Bellini: [[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]
| [[Meredith Wohlgemuth]] (Giulietta)
| [[Nina van Essen]] (Romeo)
| [[Andrea Sanguineti]] (cond.) }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#22 Jun|22 June 2023]] - Abel Fest concert
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| normal = {{ubl| Spiegelsaal of [[Schloss Köthen]]
| [https://musikkoffer-sachsen-anhalt.de/komponist/abel-carl-friedrich/ Abel Fest]
| '''[[Carl Friedrich Abel]]''':
| Six Sonatas, Op. 2, [[Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel|AbelWV]] C1-6
| [[Leopold Mozart]]:
| Trio No. 1 in F major, Eisen XI:1 }}
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| normal = '''Lucia Ronchetti: [[Inferno (opera)|Inferno]]'''
* [[Tito Ceccherini]] (conductor)
* [[Jan Jakub Monowid]] (countertenor)
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#8 Dec|8 December 2023]] · concert
| image = EASO in St. Martin, Oestrich.jpg
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* Music from [[Biscay]] and Spain
* [[Es ist ein Ros entsprungen]]
* Mendelssohn: [[Hear my prayer|Hör mein Bitten]]
* {{ill|Goizean argi hastean|eu}}
* EASO choir from [[San Sebastián]]
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#6 Dec|6 December]] · RMF concert
| image = Ringkirche, Wiesbaden, Voces8.jpg
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| normal = [[Ringkirche]]
* [[Es ist ein Ros entsprungen]]
* Chilcott: [[The Sleeping Child (Chilcott)|The Sleeping Child]]
* Hieronymus Praetorius: [[Magnificat]] quinti toni
* [[Maria durch ein Dornwald ging]]
* [[Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town]]
* '''[[Voces8]]'''
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#3 Dec|3 December 2023]] · ecumenical service
| image = Unionskirche, Idstein, 1. Advent.jpg
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| normal = {{ubl| [[Unionskirche, Idstein]][[File:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]]
| First Sunday in [[Advent]]
| [[Macht hoch die Tür]]
| [[Psalm 24]]
| [[Da wohnt ein Sehnen tief in uns]]
| [[Meine Hoffnung und meine Freude]]
| [[Tochter Zion, freue dich]] }}
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| title = [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023#30 Nov|30 November 2023]] · concert
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| Ravel: [[Ma mère l'Oye]]
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| '''Dutilleux: [[Symphony No. 2 (Dutilleux)|Symphony No. 2 ''Le Double'']]'''
| Debussy: [[Ariettes oubliées]]
| [[Gérard Grisey]]: L'icône paradoxale
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| Ambroisine Bré
| [[Frankfurt Radio Symphony]]
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| '''Ligeti: [[Le Grand Macabre]]'''
| [[Simon Neal (baritone)|Simon Neal]] (Nekrotzar)
| '''[[Anna Nekhames]]''' (Venus/Chef of Gepopo)
| [[Michael McCown]] (White Minister)
| [[Iain MacNeal]] (Black Minister)
| [[Vasily Barkhatov]] (dir.)
| [[Thomas Guggeis]] (cond.) }}
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| [[Um Mitternacht (Mahler)|Um Mitternacht]]
| [[Alma Mahler]]: Die stille Stunde
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| [[Roman Trekel]]
| [[Hideyo Harada]] }}
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| Mahler: [[Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 4]]
| [[Johanna Wallroth]]
| [[Oslo Philharmonic]]
| [[Klaus Mäkelä]] }}
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* '''Puccini: [[Madama Butterfly]]'''
* [[Heather Engebretson]] (Cio-Cio-San)
* [[Evan LeRoy Johnson]] (Pinkerton)
* [[R. B. Schlather]], director
* [[Antonello Manacorda]], conductor
* [https://oper-frankfurt.de/de/spielplan/madama-butterfly/ look and listen]
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| Duruflé: [[Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens|Ubi caritas et amor]]
| Mendelssohn: [[Lord, have mercy upon us (Mendelssohn)|Herr, sei gnädig]]
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| Rheinberger: [[Abendlied (Rheinberger)|Abendlied]]
| [[Chor von St. Bonifatius]]
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| Mozart: [[Le nozze di Figaro]]
| [[Kihwan Sim]] (Figaro)
| [[Julia Grüter]] (Susanna)
| [[Danylo Matviienko]] (Count)
| [[Adriana González]] (Countess)
| [[Kelsey Lauritano]] (Cherubino)
| [[Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)|Cecelia Hall]] (Marcellina)
| [[Tilmann Köhler]] (dir.)
| [[Thomas Guggeis]] (cond.) }}
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| Haydn: [[Orlando Paladino]]
| (concert version)
| [[Emőke Baráth]] (Angelica)
| [[Alasdair Kent]] (Orlando)
| [[Nuria Rial|Núria Rial]] (Alcina)
| [[Il Giardino Armonico]]
| [[Giovanni Antonini]] (cond.) }}
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* Krenek: [[Leben des Orest]][https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/kreneks-leben-des-orest-am-theater-muenster-18365358.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2]
* Brad Cooper (Agamemnon)
* Johan Hyonbong Choi (Orest)
* Magdalene Fuchsberger (director)
* {{ill|Golo Berg|de}}
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| '''[[Graham Waterhouse]]''':
| [[Praeludium (Waterhouse)|Praeludium]]
| [[Skylla and Charybdis (Waterhouse)|Skylla and Charybdis]]
| [[Alchymic Quartet]]
| [[Concentricities]]
| [[String Sextet (Waterhouse)|String Sextet op. 1]]<!--
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* [[Concerto Köln]] (oboe!)
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== 2024 ==
I made two cards for the transition from [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023|2023]] to [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024|2024]]:
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<big>[[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024|Happy New Year 2024]]</big>
[[Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/July#14 July 2010|14 July 2010]]
[[Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit]]
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<big>[[User:Gerda Arendt/Story list#31 Dec|Happy New Year 2024]]</big>
A German theologian wrote<br /> <big>"'''[[Vertraut den neuen Wegen]]'''"</big><br />(Trust the new ways)<br /> to the melody of<br /> <big>[[Lob Gott getrost mit Singen]]</big><br />(Praise God confidently with singing)<br /> to be sung at a wedding in [[Eisenach]]<br /> shortly before the [[Berlin Wall#The Fall|fall of the Wall]].
[[Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/April#8 April 2021|7 April 2021]]
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A little child, a little lamb, on a backdrop of war and death: hoping for more peace in 2024! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 19:38, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
These were my "stories" on 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2023. If you want to follow a daily sentence throughout the year, use {{tl|User Gerda Arendt/Top}}, and for the [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#Calendar for 2024|calendar pictures]] and the [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#Music|music of the year]], see [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024]]. Let's stay inspired and connected. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 07:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
=== 2024 · the anniversary of Bach's chorale cantatas ===
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| [[Hail Mary|Je vous salue Marie]]
| [[Viel Glück und viel Segen]]
| [[Freuet euch der schönen Erde]]
| [[For the beauty of the earth (Rutter)]]
| La Partida
| [[The Creation (Haydn)|Nun beut die Flur das frische Grün]]
| [[Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud]]<!--
| [[Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen]]
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| [[Wir pflügen und wir streuen]]
| [[Take the "A" Train]]
| [[Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt]]
| [[Dona nobis pacem (round)|Dona nobis pacem]]
| [[Von guten Mächten]]<!--
| [[O Täler weit, o Höhen]]
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| [[#Mozart Requiem|fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam]] -->
| [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#4 Nov|my song of defiance]][[File:cscr-featured.svg|15px]]<!--
| [[Hevenu shalom aleichem]]
| [[Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist]]"[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]]
| [[Nun danket all und bringet Ehr]]"[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]]
| [[Vespro della Beata Vergine#Hymnus: Ave maris stella|Ave maris stella]][[File:cscr-featured.svg|15px]]<!-9[[The Creation (Haydn)|... und eine neue Welt]]<!--
| [[Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227|Ich steh hier und singe]][[File:cscr-featured.svg|15px]]
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| [[Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen]]
| [[Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt]]
| [[Viel Glück und viel Segen]]
| [[Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172|Von Gott kömmt mir ein Freudenschein<!--Erschallet, ihr Lieder]][[File:cscr-featured.svg|15px]]
| [[Die Himmel rühmen des Ewigen Ehre]]
| [[Seele, vergiß sie nicht]][[File:cscr-featured.svg|15px]]
| [[Von guten Mächten]]
| [[Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit]]
| [[Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Purcell)|Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts]]
| [[Verleih uns Frieden (Mendelssohn)|Verleih uns Frieden]]
| [[Where Have All the Flowers Gone?|Where have all the flowers gone?]]
| [[A Clare Benediction]]
| [[Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern]]
| [[Reger-Chor|Jauchzet, jauchzet!]]
| [[Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227|Jesu, meine Freude]][[File:cscr-featured.svg|15px]]
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[[File:Fly.gif|right|alt=Die Fliege|link=User:Nagualdesign/Die Fliege]]
2024 is the anniversary of the [[Achtliederbuch]], the first Lutheran hymnal of 500 years ago, and - possibly related - [[Chorale cantata (Bach)|Bach's cycle of Chorale cantatas]] 300 years ago. His works and the chorales on which they are based will be a focus for 2024. Ongoing are locations that played a role in my life, [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths|recent deaths]], music heard and sung, composers, gardens. Watch my user page for articles, done in collaboration. Compare [[User:Gerda Arendt/2023#2023|2023]] for the amazing number of users who began and expanded articles. Thanks also to reviewers, and I do plan to review more and write less, and in writing, focus more on quality than the little daily article.
'''2024 talk''' begins at [[#Have a happy New Year, Gerda!]], 2024 calender pics and musical events [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024|begin here]], and the 2024 diary of my own pictures of places, songs, food, flowers ... [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs 2024|will come here]], - just watch those lists if you are interested.
'''My talk goes like this''': on top there's the [[User:Gerda Arendt/Story list|"story"]] related to the day. Below are three boxes, often one for people remembered and two for musical experiences, performing or listening. In these boxes, topics related to the top story and topics featured on the Main page appear bold. Right here you see the [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#Calendar|image of the month]] with songs of the month, typically related to meetings with [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs|friends who gave them to me]]. I archive from time. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:35, 1 January 2024 (UTC) - updated order --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 18:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
== Have a happy New Year, Gerda! ==
=== Belated seasons greetings; great contribution ===
Belated Christmas greetings and happy new year. I have not sent my usual greetings this season. Coordinator work, preparing a talk for January 2 and real life have me quite busy. I just took better notice of User:Gerda Arendt/Stories. As always, this is another great contribution to the project by you. [[User:Donner60|Donner60]] ([[User talk:Donner60|talk]]) 22:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
: Thank you, Donner60, and all the best for 2024! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:42, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
=== Happy New Year! ===
Dear Gerda, I apologize for not replying to your thoughtful messages. December is usually a busy month for me; this one has been even more so, much of it because of my own doing! But I wanted to let you know that I did read them and that it means very much to me that you took the trouble to think of me, despite my occasional irascibility. (Within me the patrimony of my hot-blooded Italian forebears are ever in conflict with the expressive austerity of my Basque ancestors!) Thank you for everything that you do on here. My sincerest wishes to you for good health and much joy in 2024! :) —[[User:CurryTime7-24|CurryTime7-24]] ([[User talk:CurryTime7-24|talk]]) 21:43, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
: Thank you for your personal expression, and have a good curry time in 2024 - brief, off to the village fireworks to come. I just finished [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs 2023#24 Dec|my pics of 2023]], and it was a good harvest, in the end of many Christmas trees, angels, high water and a flaming sky. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 22:38, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
=== Have a wonderful New Year, Gerda! ===
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{{font|size=17px|Hi {{BASEPAGENAME}}, Best wishes that the new year brings peace, prosperity, health and happiness.<br> Thank you for everything you do for the Wikipedia community, your article improvements,<br>and bringing people together here.}}<br><br>
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[[User:Netherzone|Netherzone]], thank you for a lovely start in the new year, - [[#2024|see my "response"]] (written before I went to bed).
=== Happy New Year! ===
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''Happy New Year!'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Happy New Year from Martha and I! ''[[Appalachian Spring]]'' was one of many articles you helped me with this year, and I am beyond grateful for the support and time you've given me in my first full year as an editor. Here's to a new year of composers, compositions, and singers! [[User:MyCatIsAChonk|MyCatIsAChonk]] ([[User talk:MyCatIsAChonk|talk]]) <small>([[Bill Nye|not me]])</small> <small style="font-size:66%;">([[Serena Williams|also not me]])</small> <small style="font-size:45%;">([[Ferb Fletcher|still no]])</small> 00:43, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
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: Thank you for the personal greeting, and it's all my pleasure, [[User:MyCatIsAChonk|MyCatIsAChonk]]. [[Igor Stravinsky|Igor]] and [[#2024|I]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 07:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
=== Have a good year in 2024 ===
Make the music and keep up the good work! Cheers, · · · [[User:Pbsouthwood|Peter Southwood]] [[User talk:Pbsouthwood|<sup>(talk)</sup>]]: 15:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you, Peter, for coming over! Same to you! - I try. What do you think of [[Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Poll: is this hook interesting?|my question here]]? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 15:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
=== Happy New Year and Thank You! ===
Hi Gerda,
Just to wish you a Happy New Year and to say that I'm retiring from Wikipedia after a good innings. Thank you for your encouragement and cheerfulness!
I will still be contactable via my talk page and have said I'm happy to answer questions there too.
Bless you [[User:Bermicourt|Bermicourt]] ([[User talk:Bermicourt|talk]]) 18:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you, sad to see you go, but do what's best for you! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 20:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
::I'm considering contributing to German Wikipedia instead, but conscious I'm not a native speaker so will need to up my game! Maybe I'll see you there! :) [[User:Bermicourt|Bermicourt]] ([[User talk:Bermicourt|talk]]) 17:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
::: Fine, - ping me when you create something to be reviewed. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 17:36, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
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== A barnstar for you! ==
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I bestow this award to you, Gerda, for being an untiring teacher. Along with creating so many new music articles that the world can enjoy, you also share with me (and others) interesting anecdotes about the music and your life. I really appreciate the learnings from the messages you leave, and as a token of my thanks, this barnstar is for you. [[User:Rosiestep|Rosiestep]] ([[User talk:Rosiestep|talk]]) 20:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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: Thank you, Rosie, that's very original and touching! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 20:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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==DYK for Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel==
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:Wonderful to see this on the main page after the wait! [[User:MyCatIsAChonk|MyCatIsAChonk]] ([[User talk:MyCatIsAChonk|talk]]) <small>([[Bill Nye|not me]])</small> <small style="font-size:66%;">([[Serena Williams|also not me]])</small> <small style="font-size:45%;">([[Ferb Fletcher|still no]])</small> 17:15, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
:: About time. Article begun in May, meant to appear with the [[#2024|Abel Fest]] in June. Then we missed his birthday on 22 December. I wanted it with the image, for various reasons,
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The new<br /> '''''[[Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel]]''''',<br /> listing 420 compositions,<br /> was introduced<br /> at a festival<br /> [[Abel Fest|celebrating Abel's tercentenary]]<br /> in [[Köthen]].
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but this is better than nothing. - What do you think of the nom for [[Anna Nekhames]]? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 17:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel]] 5 '''Jan'''
# [[Ryland Davies]] 9 Jan
# [[Kihwan Sim]] 12 Jan
# [[Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst]] 15 Jan
# [[Thomas Fritzsch]] 16 Jan
# [[St. Joseph, Wedding]] 20 Jan
# [[Vivi Vassileva]] 21 Jan
# [[St. Martin, Oestrich]] 25 Jan
# [[Shalom chaverim]] 25 Jan
# [[Anna Nekhames]] 26 Jan
# [[Stephen Gould (tenor)]] 7 '''Feb'''
# [[Tamara Milashkina]] 20 Feb
# [[Caspar Richter]] 3 '''Mar'''
# [[Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)|Cecelia Hall]] 23 Mar
# [[Kelsey Lauritano]] 26 Mar
# [[Florian Ludwig]] 26 Mar
# [[Karsten Januschke]] 29 Mar
# [[Tilmann Köhler]] 5 '''Apr'''
# [[Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine]] 30 Apr
# [[Magdalena Hinterdobler]] 10 '''May'''
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== ITN recognition for [[Hermann Baumann (musician)]] ==
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Thank you, [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]], for the first of the year. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 17:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
For more detail see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths]] --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 11:30, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Hermann Baumann (musician)]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 01:00, 5 '''January''' 2024 (UTC)
# [[Chris Karrer]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 22:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Tamara Milashkina]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 23:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Romuald Twardowski]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 01:41, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Ewa Podleś]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 00:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Gerd Uecker]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 10:28, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Oskar Negt]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 22:41, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Helga Paris]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 22:41, 12 '''February''' 2024 (UTC)
# [[Seiji Ozawa]] - [[User:Spencer|<span style="color:#082529">Spencer</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Spencer|<span style="color:#FFBF00">T•</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Spencer|<span style="color:#FFBF00">C</span>]]</sup> 05:47, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Alfred Grosser]] - [[User:Ingenuity|Ingenuity]] ([[User talk:Ingenuity#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contribs/Ingenuity|contribs]]) 00:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Ladislav Burlas]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 00:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Rudolf Jansen]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 19:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Johanna von Koczian]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 20:04, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Ira von Fürstenberg]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 23:31, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Gabriela Grillo]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 08:00, 2 '''March''' 2024 (UTC)
# [[Françoise Garner]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 12:33, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
# [[Guy Touvron]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 23:59, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
# [[Aribert Reimann]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 21:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
# [[Maurizio Pollini]] - [[User:Robertsky|– robertsky]] ([[User talk:Robertsky|talk]]) 02:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
# [[Peter Eötvös]] - [[User:Tone|Tone]] 10:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
# [[Günther Leib]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 21:26, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
# [[Judith Hemmendinger]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 23:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
# [[Hans Joachim Meyer]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 01:56, 5 '''April''' 2024 (UTC)
# [[Notker Wolf]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 17:28, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Gerhard Lohfink]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 23:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Kalevi Kiviniemi]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 23:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Michael Boder]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 16:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Dieter Rexroth]] - [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai|talk]]) 23:30, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Joe Viera]] - [[User:Amakuru|Amakuru]] ([[User talk:Amakuru|talk]]) 11:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC) (14 Apr)
# [[Lorenzo Palomo]] - [[User:Stephen|Step]][[User talk:Stephen|hen]] 01:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Andrew Davis (conductor)|Andrew Davis]] - [[User:Spencer|<span style="color:#082529">Spencer</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Spencer|<span style="color:#FFBF00">T•</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Spencer|<span style="color:#FFBF00">C</span>]]</sup> 19:28, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Samuel Kummer]] - [[User:Robertsky|– robertsky]] ([[User talk:Robertsky|talk]]) 07:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
# [[Peter Demetz]] - [[User:Spencer|<span style="color:#082529">Spencer</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Spencer|<span style="color:#FFBF00">T•</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Spencer|<span style="color:#FFBF00">C</span>]]</sup> 21:32, 6 '''May''' 2024 (UTC)
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== Your [[WP:Good articles|GA]] nomination of [[Macht hoch die Tür]] ==
The article [[Macht hoch die Tür]] you nominated as a [[Wikipedia:Good article nominations|good article]] has passed [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|link=]]; see [[Talk:Macht hoch die Tür]] for comments about the article, and [[Talk:Macht hoch die Tür/GA1]] for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Create new nomination|nominate it]] within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility.<!-- Template:GANotice result=pass --> <!-- Template:GANotice --> <small>Message delivered by [[User:ChristieBot|ChristieBot]], on behalf of [[User:Schminnte|Schminnte]]</small> -- [[User:Schminnte|Schminnte]] ([[User talk:Schminnte|talk]]) 22:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Macht hoch die Tür]] - [[User:Schminnte|Schminnte]] ([[User talk:Schminnte|talk]]) 22:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Stephen Gould (tenor)]] - [[User:MyCatIsAChonk|MyCatIsAChonk]] ([[User talk:MyCatIsAChonk|talk]]) 00:03, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
# [[Ryland Davies]] - [[User:Utopes|Utopes]] ([[User talk:Utopes|talk]]) 19:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
# [[Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104]] - [[User:MyCatIsAChonk|MyCatIsAChonk]] ([[User talk:MyCatIsAChonk|talk]]) 11:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
== Notice ==
[[File:Information icon4.svg|link=|25px|alt=Information icon]] There is currently a discussion at [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1146#Regarding Gerda Arendt's hooks on DYK|Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents]] regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.<!--Template:Discussion notice--><!--Template:ANI-notice--> [[User:Narutolovehinata5|<B><span style="color:#0038A8">Naruto</span><span style="color:#FCD116">love</span><span style="color:#CE1126">hinata</span>5</B>]] ([[User talk:Narutolovehinata5|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Narutolovehinata5|contributions]]) 23:45, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
*Gerda, perhaps if you started out every hook with "Did you know ... that Narutolovehinata5 is very important ... and also [insert hook here]. --[[User:Floquenbeam|Floquenbeam]] ([[User talk:Floquenbeam|talk]]) 00:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
=== A barnstar for you! ===
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For all the wonderful things you do for the encyclopedia, especially for spreading friendship, and for bringing music to the main page with your DYK work there. Thank you for being you! [[User:Netherzone|Netherzone]] ([[User talk:Netherzone|talk]]) 01:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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:Seconding @[[User:Netherzone|Netherzone]] here. I didn't see the post in time to oppose vehemently. But I love what you bring to all areas, especially talk pages since that's where I frequently see you @[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]]. Thanks for always sharing your passions with us. <span style="font-family:Calibri; font-weight:bold;">[[User:Star Mississippi|<span style="color:#a117f2;">Star</span>]] [[User talk:Star Mississippi|<span style="color:#df00fe;">Mississippi</span>]]</span> 17:59, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
=== I offer you my deepest apologies Gerda ===
Hello Gerda. I would just want you to know that I am very sorry for the ANI discussion I started earlier. I had been having some real-life stress lately and it felt like it may have affected my feelings on-wiki. I'm very sorry for the attitude I have shown you over the past few weeks. I very much appreciate your efforts on Wikipedia and your dedication to the project even if we disagree on many things, and I just want to let you know that despite everything that has happened you are still an editor I admire and respect. You are a net positive to DYK and while we may disagree on views, what we can agree on is that your articles are very informative and a net good to the project. Again, I am sorry for what I have done. Rest assured that regardless of our differences I support your efforts on Wikipedia to improve our coverage on classical music and Germany. [[User:Narutolovehinata5|<B><span style="color:#0038A8">Naruto</span><span style="color:#FCD116">love</span><span style="color:#CE1126">hinata</span>5</B>]] ([[User talk:Narutolovehinata5|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Narutolovehinata5|contributions]]) 02:46, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
: I woke up thinking Joy to the world. I tried to bring joy, it's turned into trivia, and I'm accused of bad faith. Travelling now, no time to even look. Before looking, I can't tell if I can accept apologies, which may may be tomorrow. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 06:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
: [[User:Narutolovehinata5|Narutolovehinata5]], still today, I'm on a train, the train has a connection (all things that can't be taken for granted): apologies for attitude accepted, but I hope that it really will change, because I felt it becoming a danger to diversity of information and freedom of speech. For those unfamiliar with the situation: we escalated over the hook for [[Kihwan Sim]], which was replaced in prep against my protest. That hook should not run, it's a triviality said about a living person who deserves merit for specific achievements. - I looked at the thread and found some gems of support there that I will place in my "blushing" cabinet, - thank you, all! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 10:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
::This is not an indictment of Naruto but like others on the AN/I thread I have found that Wikipedia seems to have become more hostile. I suppose one could surmise at least somewhat that it is born out of necessity. We appear to live at a time where I feel my thoughts on life and the way I wish to live life are going the way of faeries and dragons. Nobody cares, love is fleeting, and civility and affording basic human respect are more centered on your position in relation to mine rather than the fact you are a fellow human being. The cruelty is not AN/I or Naruto's position. The cruelty is everything that has led up to it. People are becoming less nice and we are told it is normal, discussions less civil but we are told to accept it. Where is the empathy?
::Gerda, you are a blessing and so precious, my friend. I said it after we first met and I maintain that yours is one the brightest lights I have been so fortunate to meet here. Keep singing, keep shining, keep being you. --[[User:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b76e79">'''A'''</span><span style="color:#be4f60">'''Rose'''</span>]][[User talk:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b87333">'''Wolf'''</span>]] 13:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
=== For a sunbeam on these winter afternoons ===
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=== The Medal for Joy ===
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | The ANI thread was closed by the OP before there could be a formal close by a third party. Reviewing it post-close, I see a strong consensus that you should be awarded a medal for the joy that you bring to Wikipedia. So, here it is - enjoy! And thanks from me personally for all of our past interactions, and all the work you do here. [[User:Girth Summit|<span style="font-family:Impact;color:#006400;">Girth</span> <span style="font-family:Impact;color:#4B0082;">Summit</span>]][[User talk:Girth Summit|<sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)</sub>]] 19:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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:THIS! Gerda you are a beloved contributor, who first encouraged me to submit a DYK and taught me how the process worked by your kind words, "watch what I do". I've learned so much from you over the years about patience, diplomacy, and of course I appreciate how you generously spread joy, music, food, and nature within this community, and the global community. And personally, you have educated this old-skool rock-n-roller about opera and classical music general. You rock, girl! Thank you, precious! [[User:Netherzone|Netherzone]] ([[User talk:Netherzone|talk]]) 03:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
=== Upper Bounds ===
Hi, Gerda, I hope you will forgive me for overstepping my bounds. They are both positive to infinity & beyond. I look forward to seeing your postings online in the future. You do some amazing things around here :) cheers to the 11th & to 2024! [[User:Ktochle|Ktochle]] ([[User talk:Ktochle|talk]]) 20:49, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
=== A musical barnstar! ===
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid purple;" | For your hard work on expanding so many articles on musical compositions, hymns, opera and lesser-known singers, and bringing many of them to ITN! Keep up the good work! [[User:Chaotic Enby|<span style="color:#947E00">Chaotıċ<span style="display:inline-flex;rotate:30deg;color:indigo">Enby</span></span>]]<span style="font-size:85%">([[User talk:Chaotic Enby|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby|c]])</span> 21:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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=== DYK for Kihwan Sim ===
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=== Kihwan Sim ===
Thank you for support, barnstars and recognition. I had a great day with friends and family, and am too tired for individual comments. What brought us here was my DYK nomination for a singer who fascinated me, [[Template:Did you know nominations/Kihwan Sim]], followed by questioning the sourcing for part of the hook together with the suggestion of a completely different hook, [[WT:DYK#Kihwan Sim]]. I was away, and didn't see that this new hook, although I objected and explained that I was away, was put in prep. I still object, a) because it says something trivial about him instead of celebrating his achievements, b) because I hate to be held responsible for putting "military" on the Main page. It reached the Main page now. Help?? - I will have no time for Wikipedia today, as yesterday. - For those who believe that our readers are not interested in opera: in the last case of an opera singer, [[Ryland Davies]], more people viewed the opera than the singer. Let's not underestimate our readers, and not censor what we offer them. -- [[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 00:11, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Still little time: I told [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#12 Jan|the story today]] that I wanted to tell, and the Main page still has the story I think tells too little. Thank you for all support, but the most wanted support would be to change that. The approved version is in [[Template:Did you know nominations/Kihwan Sim|the nomination]], also a modified hook that was taken to prep. Everybody: don't miss to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwP1MD8gyaA look and listen], Sim and Guggeis in interview, and the French revolution hints ;) - "Se vuol ballare" --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 09:47, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
:I totally get your POV and I sympathize, but I think the hook on the main page is quite good. I understand that you think differently. Sometimes when we get really close to a subject, we get a bit of tunnel vision and that's normal. I personally like the idea that we can meet somewhere in the middle. [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 21:36, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
:: Please don't get me wrong: I don't think it was an impossible hook, but it wasn't what I ''wanted to tell'', - I wanted to talk about the first production of our fascinating new GMD, and the title role would have been the best related topic. What I disliked was that it was thrown in prep without consulting me. Also: the world "military" in the hook is really something I don't get behind. - I wanted to mention the French Revolution, and you may have seen the hints, not only in expressive gestures, but also the French flag colours by constellation of the performers for a moment ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 21:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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=== The Main Page Barnstar ===
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Incredibly upset at the recent ANI, both that it existed and that I missed the opportunity to comment in it. However, there's no time limit on giving a barnstar, so better late than never: Gerda, you deserve more barnstars than the WP community could ever pour on you, for both your tireless contributions to the Main Page and article space, but also for indefatigable ability to spread good cheer behind the scenes. Thank you for everything that you do - best wishes, [[User:Frzzl|<u style="color:#fff; background-color:#a04"> Frzzl </u>]]<span style="background-color:#15B">[[User:Frzzl/t|<u style="color:#fff"> talk; </u>]][[User:Frzzl/c|<u style="color:#fff">contribs </u>]]</span> 12:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
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: Thank you, and don't be upset please about something that seems to clarify things. Thank you for the barnstar and the recognition - much appreciated! - I brought more than 90 names to the News section of the Main page, many more than DYK, and experience much more collegial reviewing in that field. - You can comment in the matter, and more productively than in [[WP:Great Dismal Swamp]]: check out my user page and look for articles nominated for DYK, and review or comment there. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 17:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
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A piece we sang in 1999, to end a century of violence. [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#15 Jan|My story today]]. I like recordings, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELY0ggT-L4 1951 with the original performers] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG4FL-07lTc 2020 Windsbacher Knabenchor, with explanations (in German)]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 13:04, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
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Cute: today is the birthday of a friend whose '''wedding''' was on a 17 September, the day I was at St. Joseph, '''Wedding''', in 2023 and took the two photos in the article - see also [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs 2023#17 Sep|more details]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 09:29, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
==DYK for St. Martin, Oestrich==
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== 27 January ==
Birthday of Mozart and our conductor:
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--[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 19:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
==DYK for Stephen Gould (tenor)==
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:Finally, good to see him at DYK! [[User:MyCatIsAChonk|MyCatIsAChonk]] ([[User talk:MyCatIsAChonk|talk]]) <small>([[Bill Nye|not me]])</small> <small style="font-size:66%;">([[Serena Williams|also not me]])</small> <small style="font-size:45%;">([[Ferb Fletcher|still no]])</small> 11:53, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
:: yes, thank you for noticing --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 14:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
== BWV 22 ==
Every time I visit your pages I end up having to learn about a lovely new cantata! Thank you so much for all your work. It's BWV 22 right now – what a gorgeous thing, despite the tragic lack of trumpets.
I have a personally busy time coming up with Bach and some other guy called Handel and some other ''other'' guy called Telemann. Should be fun.
Cheers!! [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 19:56, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
: Cheers back, [https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programm/sendungen/wdr3-oper/oper-georg-friedrich-haendel-cleofida-100.html listening right now] to an opera by the Handel guy ([[Poro (opera)|Poro]]) which Telemann presented as Cleofida in Hamburg in 1732 adding marches he must have enjoyed writing. German recitatives. Never heard. Delightful. - You don't have to come to my page as long you have "story" in a box by me ;) - Our Bach endeavour will be [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#5 May|three cantatas]]!!! 5 May, - come over, plenty of trumpets in [[BWV 11]] ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 20:23, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
== ITN recognition for [[Seiji Ozawa]] ==
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=== 12 years ===
Dear Gerda, thanks for your greeting, which I warmly reciprocate. I have stepped back from wp for the past few months, partly because of pressures at home (caring for supercentenarian mother). But you rightly diagnose the local cause of inactivity and I will strive to take your precious advice to heart. Thanks for noticing, and very best wishes for 2024. So sorry about Seiji Ozawa. [[User:Eebahgum|Eebahgum]] ([[User talk:Eebahgum|talk]]) 14:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you! - I thank Ozawa personally two (mostly) unforgettable matinees in [[Tanglewood Music Center|Tanglewood]] (where children under 5 were not welcome for the concerts, but the dress rehearsals), of Haydn's ''[[Die Schöpfung]]'', choir all in white and singing from memory, "Und eine neue Welt" (And a new world) of unearthly lightness, and a Mozart piano concerto with [[Mitsuko Uchida]] (forgot which, forgot rest of the program) when all the birds under the roof of the Shed began chirping when the piano entered, and remember how she smiled. - I thank [[Christoph Eschenbach]] for a great [[Verdi Requiem]] at the same place, and could do so in person after a concert of Bruckner's Sixths, saying that I liked it very much (and it had been 12 years earlier), and he smiled and said "Ich auch". --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 14:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
::Uchida held us breathless at Snape Maltings a few years ago with a solo concert of the three final Beethoven sonatas. It seems somehow improper to comment on such a comprehensively personal and dynamically brilliant exposition, but we certainly felt the warmth of the pedalling building the whole conception. It was terrific Beethoven! Your mention of the chirping birds reminds me of an open air evening concert in the Forum in Rome back in 1977 - it was Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and every time the horns came in, all the wild cats that live in the Forum responded by yowling together in a loud chorus after a moment's delay. Whether they liked it or not I don't know, but it touched something in their souls, for the effect came back a couple of times as if it had been written into Sonata Form. Happy cats! [[User:Eebahgum|Eebahgum]] ([[User talk:Eebahgum|talk]]) 01:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
== Thank you! ==
Just making sure someone remembers to thank *you* for all your work on editor retention, all your new articles and DYKs, and your general good cheer and Excellent work. We love having you here. Stay cool. [[User:Jengod|jengod]] ([[User talk:Jengod|talk]]) 16:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you, jengod, feels good! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 17:35, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
== Precious anniversary ==
Dear Gerda, it's such a pleasure to hear from you -- a most welcome antidote to the ambitions, rivalries, and animosities ubiquitous at Wikipedia as elsewhere in this human-inhabited world. [[User:Nihil novi|Nihil novi]] ([[User talk:Nihil novi#top|talk]]) 07:13, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
: Such a nice thing to read when waking up! If you want to hear from me [[User talk:Vami IV/Archive4|monthly]], join [[WP:QAI]], and if you want to hear from me [[User talk:Viriditas|daily]] use {{tl|User Gerda Arendt/Top}} (which is easier). --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:52, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
==DYK for Tamara Milashkina==
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'''[[Tamara Milashkina]]''',<br /> the first Soviet Russian [[soprano]] trained at [[La Scala]],<br /> portrayed Russian characters<br /> with emotion and authenticity<br /> touring with the [[Bolshoi Theatre]]<br /> as Tchaikovsky's [[Eugene Onegin (opera)|Tatyana]] at the [[Vienna State Opera]]<br /> and as [[The Queen of Spades (opera)|Lisa]] at the [[Metropolitan Opera]].
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Listen to my next subject [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogfi4R0529Q singing Tchaikovsky]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 10:38, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
:Moving [[User:Grimes2|Grimes2]] ([[User talk:Grimes2|talk]]) 16:20, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
:Thanks for this treat! (How is it that you know what I like?) [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 19:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
::: You like what I like. Thank you for coming over. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 07:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
: Thankyou for the Tchaikowsky "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" (Nyet, tolko tot menya). You were lucky to hear such a performance live. I like the old Melodiya version by [[Sergei Lemeshev]] (his alluring measure and sweetness) but of course quite a different affair to your singer's noble account. Why is it (language aside) that Tchaikowsky's setting never really feels like Goethe? Is it Russian pessimism colliding with echt German Welt-angst? Do the Russian lyrics really render the same words? In the English versions, "None but the desolate" beats "None but the lonely heart", but both are entirely inadequate: you don't get that resonance of the desolate ''individual'' such as you also have in "Wer nie sein Brot mit Thränen aß..."[[User:Eebahgum|Eebahgum]] ([[User talk:Eebahgum|talk]]) 13:02, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
::: (I saw her on stage but with [[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024#20 Feb|completely different music]], and as Suzuki, Cherubino and Paolo.) I can't tell for the Russian, but know that some German words and probably concepts have no true expression in English, and "Sehnsucht" is one of them. Music, however, is much more internationally understood. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 13:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
:: These came in response to my message:
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:::: The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and [[User talk:Vami IV#Rose of missing|Vami_IV]], a friend here. Listen to [[Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|music by Tchaikovsky]] (an article where [[User talk:Gerda Arendt#Milashkina|one of the four]] is pictured), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogfi4R0529Q sung by today's subject] (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago).
:: Yesterday I learned that a friend suddenly died; we both belonged to a group that traveled once a year for decades, and I remember her vivid talk last summer, same voice and sparkle as when we met. Her [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs|song for me]] was [[Take the "A" Train]], sung by [[Ella Fitzgerald]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
:: The image pictures hope. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
:: [[#Music|Seele, vergiß sie nicht]] --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:41, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
:: [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories 2024#27 Feb|Today]] is her birthday. Once we went to [[St. Stephan, Mainz|St. Stephan]] together, after meeting for [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs 2023#7 Jun|good food]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
== Thank you ==
Thank you for all the work you do on Wikipedia, from ITN to all your contributions to various topics such as churches, women, and German articles. It is hard workers like you that help to improve the project, and are an inspiration to many who want to also continually improve the project as well. Cheers, ''atque supra''! [[User:Fakescientist8000|Fake]][[User talk:Fakescientist8000|scientist]][[Special:Contributions/Fakescientist8000|8000]] 17:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
: It is a pleasure to expand knowledge, and double so when recognized, - thank you! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 18:27, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
== A barnstar for you! ==
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: Thank you, blushing, - I try, look above. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:40, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
== Your [[WP:Good articles|GA]] nomination of [[Ryland Davies]] ==
The article [[Ryland Davies]] you nominated as a [[Wikipedia:Good article nominations|good article]] has passed [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|link=]]; see [[Talk:Ryland Davies]] for comments about the article, and [[Talk:Ryland Davies/GA1]] for the nomination. Well done! If the article is [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Guidelines#Newness|eligible to appear]] in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Create new nomination|nominate it]] within the next seven days.<!-- Template:GANotice result=pass --> <!-- Template:GANotice --> <small>Message delivered by [[User:ChristieBot|ChristieBot]], on behalf of [[User:Utopes|Utopes]]</small> -- [[User:Utopes|Utopes]] ([[User talk:Utopes|talk]]) 19:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you, [[User:Utopes|Utopes]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 20:19, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
== For your reading ==
Hope all is well! A brief article on the very first Chinese woman mathematics PhD, who got it from München: [[Xu Ruiyun]]. Cheers, --[[User:TheLonelyPather|<span style="font-family:Garamond;">''The Lonely Pather''</span>]] ([[User talk:TheLonelyPather|talk]]) 18:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you - I read too little. Will go to München on Sunday. My [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#28 Feb|story today plays in München]], with
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== 29 February 2024 ==
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[[Gioachino Rossini]]<br /> (born 29 February 1792)<br /> scored the last of his "sins of old age",<br /> the '''''[[Petite messe solennelle]]''',<br /> for twelve singers, two pianos, and [[Pump organ|harmonium]].<br /> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPRWnO6frpI listen]<br /> When '''[[Heather Phillips]]'''<br /> made her European debut<br /> in Rossini's ''[[Bianca e Falliero]]'',<br /> her nuanced [[coloratura]]s served<br /> to portray Bianca's development.
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-- [[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 11:02, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
=== new section ===
please continue to leave messages at my talk page where you are always welcome. I may not respond every time but I do follow the links. Your messages are uplifting and encouraging. You are PRECIOUS to me. --[[User:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b76e79">'''A'''</span><span style="color:#be4f60">'''Rose'''</span>]][[User talk:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b87333">'''Wolf'''</span>]] 18:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
: I love that, thank you for the unexpected visit: I thought you were gone for weeks --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 18:37, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
:: I can never tell. I may be able to log in for days in a row and then be away for weeks. I was off for a week and came back for several days and was gone again for several more recently. I will have to take a couple of weeks in March at the very least. --[[User:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b76e79">'''A'''</span><span style="color:#be4f60">'''Rose'''</span>]][[User talk:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b87333">'''Wolf'''</span>]] 18:49, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
== March flowers ==
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The flowers photographed last year on the island of Madeira became a symbol for missing [[User talk:Vami IV/Archive4|Vami_IV]]. They are connected to another stay on the island. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 18:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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== Poulenc ==
Ah yes the [[Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone]]{{snd}}what a delight, and what a hoot for the players. So pleased you mentioned it.
Did you know that [[Felix Aprahamian]] used to show people a tree just round the corner from here, on which Poulenc had had a wee? It's in his [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/21/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries obit]. According to my in-laws, Aprahamian sometimes used to jokingly propose that the tree should have a memorial plaque ... [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 09:42, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
: No I didn't know ;) - [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#6 Mar|today's story]] is about Jo Vincent who appeared with Kathleen Perrier and Peter Pears in Britten's Spring Symphony. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 09:03, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
==Otilie Suková==
I {{tl|ill}} linked her in [[Josef Suk (composer)]] because I wanted to know if [[Josef Suk (violinist)]] had known her. (Alas, he hadn't.) I'm planning to introduce a friend to [[Violin Sonatina (Dvořák)]], which is evidence that great music doesn't have to be technically challenging. How proud he must have been of his kids! [[User:Narky Blert|Narky Blert]] ([[User talk:Narky Blert|talk]]) 16:48, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
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==DYK for Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)==
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==DYK for Kelsey Lauritano==
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:Thought this said "a reviewer from the [[WP:FAC|FAC]]" at first and I was like huh?? :D [[User:DanCherek|DanCherek]] ([[User talk:DanCherek|talk]]) 11:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
== ITN recognition for [[Maurizio Pollini]] ==
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== In appreciation ==
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Thank you. - For me, ERRORS is not a hall of flames, but an area where admins with a broader horizon stop by. This is to hope that a certain narrow view in the DYK corner will widen. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 22:36, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
== ITN recognition for [[Günther Leib]] ==
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== Easter ==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Easter_Prep_6 Any ideas] for Easter hooks? [[User:Lightburst|Lightburst]] ([[User talk:Lightburst|talk]]) 23:20, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you for asking. No, sorry, not this year. I have four nominations for people who recently died, two are open, - that kept me busy. What I wanted was Bach's [[St John Passion structure|St John Passion]] for OTD tomorrow, first performed on Good Friday 1724, but I was reverted claiming that OTD can't go by feast but only by date, so it would have to be 7 April. Impossible. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 23:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
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... that on Good Friday 2020,<br /> '''[[Benedikt Kristjánsson]]'''<br /> sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of<br /> <big><big>Bach's [[St John Passion structure|St John Passion]],</big></big><br /> composed for Good Friday 1724,<br /> broadcast live from [[St. Thomas Church, Leipzig|the composer's burial place]].
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SWDXGBz4UE look and listen] · [https://katholisch-idsteinerland.de/beitrag/bach-kantaten-in-idstein/ look forward]
[[Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/May#23 May 2020|22 May 2020]]
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I remember listening to the performance live, early in the lockdown, the festival cancelled when it had be scheduled to be performed ... He has it in #2 in [https://biamartists.com/benedikt-kristjansson-media his media], preceded by [[Tristis est anima mea (attributed to Kuhnau)|Tristis est anima mea]]. - He will sing Bach with us in May, [[Ascension Oratorio]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:18, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I listen now on radio to the St John Passion from the [[Berliner Philharmonie]], with the [[RIAS Kammerchor]], Evangelist beginning, - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5rS3qjs3aw teaser], [https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/j-s-bach-johannespassion-mit-rias-kammerchor-und-akamus-v-27-3-dlf-kultur-eed22c7d-100.html broadcast]. - I uploaded [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs 2024#17 Mar|the images from 17 March]], beginning with a "bloody" morning sky and ending with a procession of a figure of Jesus carrying the Cross, with a wind band and drums. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 19:22, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
=== Easter Sunday ===
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For Easter 1724,<br /> his first as [[Thomaskantor]] in Leipzig,<br /> [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] revived<br /> <big>'''[[Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4|Christ lag in Todes Banden]]'''</big>,<br />(Christ lay in death's bonds)<br /> BWV 4,<br /> a [[Chorale cantata (Bach)|chorale cantata]]<br /> he had composed in his twenties,<br /> using in all seven movements<br /> the words and tune<br /> of Luther's 1524 [[Christ lag in Todes Banden|Easter chorale]].
[[Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April#24 April 2011|24 April 2011]]
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Remembering Easter 300 years ago continues: Bach revived for for his first Easter as [[Thomaskantor]] in Leipzig a masterpiece from his early career, his first chorale cantata, and how different from those to come a few weeks after this. - Per chance, I received the YouTube link today from the conductor who just uploaded it to mark the occasion. I sang with the Idsteiner Solisten several times but not in that performance. You can follow the music! - I also uploaded more images, from a tropical garden and a famous nearby church. Happy Easter! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 19:55, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
=== Easter Monday ===
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The opening chorus of<br /> [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]{{'s}} cantata<br /> for the [[Easter Monday|Second Day of Easter]],<br /> '''[[Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66|Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66]]''',<br /> first performed in 1724<br /> has been termed<br /> "one of the longest and<br /> most exhilarating of Bach's early works".
[[Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April#25 April 2011|25 April 2011]]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFlTRAhCav8&t=60s listen]
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: Thank you
=== Re:Precious anniversary ===
Dear Gerda Arendt, I wanted to thank you for sharing a reminder of my Precious Anniversary. I still remain grateful for you presenting me with such a thoughtful commemoration on that day. Additionally, I wish you and yours a most Happy Easter! With warm regards, [[User:Anupam|Anupam]]<sup>[[User talk:Anupam|Talk]]</sup> 23:32, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you for coming over, and also to you! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 07:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
==DYK for Karsten Januschke==
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== ITN recognition for [[Péter Eötvös]] ==
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== ITN recognition for [[Judith Hemmendinger]] ==
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This article was created and brought to DYK by Yoninah. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:24, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
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== ITN recognition for [[Hans Joachim Meyer]] ==
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You added some kind of award on to my talk page. Would you explain what the award is and why I would wish to continue to have it on my talk page? -- [[User:Cimon Avaro|Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick.]] ([[User talk:Cimon Avaro|talk]]) 15:40, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
: I added a reminder of an award. There's a link, - perhaps that helps. Just revert if it's not good for you. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 19:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
== A matter of some importance ==
<small>While [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know&diff=prev&oldid=1217867363 we're here], might as well. I believe the normal advice is to report to higher powers ASAP, but I'll give you a chance.</small>
Do you have an [[WP:EXTERNALREL|external relationship]] with the composer [[Graham Waterhouse]]? If you do, please follow ''the steps outlined at [[WP:DISCLOSE]]'' for all related pages you have previously created or edited. [[User:AirshipJungleman29|~~ AirshipJungleman29]] ([[User talk:AirshipJungleman29|talk]]) 11:26, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
: I am a personal friend, and was asked by the arbitration committee to say so. I did that on the biography talk page. I created the biography filling a red link in 2009. The [[User:Firefly|arbitrator]] said nothing of other pages, or I misunderstood. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 14:52, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
: Adding: I read the steps outlined. There's a template. I added the template to the biography and the list of compositions. I doubt that many people will read any of the compositions without also checking the composer (before or after). What are related pages. A person to whom he dedicated a piece? Musicians with whom his father played, in the premiere of Britten's [[War Requiem]]? Those were my first articles in 2009. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 15:09, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
::Tried to help and add the template to the top box but feel free to revert if not needed. FWIW, I believe you have edited the article objectively and neutrally. I realize that Having a COI is separate from being biased and I appreciate the steps you are taking to declare a COI. I think it is a beautiful article and I enjoyed reading it. --[[User:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b76e79">'''A'''</span><span style="color:#be4f60">'''Rose'''</span>]][[User talk:ARoseWolf|<span style="color:#b87333">'''Wolf'''</span>]] 16:22, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
::Thank you for your response. The template is not for readers, but for your fellow editors, and as such, it is best practice to place it on any page that is closely associated with him (''[[Der Handschuh (Waterhouse)]]'', ''[[Celtic Voices and Hale Bopp]]'', ''[[Birkenlicht]]''), but no, I think pages such as [[Emanuel Hurwitz]] or [[Andrew Szydlo]] are too far away.
::A follow-up, if I may: has your "personal friendship" ever become a professional relationship? for example, have you ever been affiliated with Mr Waterhouse's business in any way, or he with you? [[User:AirshipJungleman29|~~ AirshipJungleman29]] ([[User talk:AirshipJungleman29|talk]]) 17:55, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
::: No. I have no business. - May I ask what the template on a composition article will tell my fellow editors? Hurwitz and Szydlo were not even created by me, - I only updated. My second article was [[Siegfried Palm]] (translated from German, with help from [[Jerome Kohl]]), my third [[Richard Adeney]], and my fourth [[Cecil Aronowitz]]. My first article was deleted within minutes, and revived with the help by [[User:Cmadler]] who knew how important it is to cite awards, and actually went and found sources. He also nominated for DYK, only I didn't like his hook suggestion - what's new? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 18:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
:::: Yes, I am saying that Hurwitz and Szydlo were too unconnected with Mr Waterhouse for you to need to disclose anything. The template on a composition article will show all your fellow editors that you are honest and open about your connections to the subject. It is a question of trust, if you will.
::::One last question, if you don't mind: as you have no connection to Mr Waterhouse's business, you are presumably saying that {{redacted}} refers to a different Gerda Arendt {{redacted}}? [[User:AirshipJungleman29|~~ AirshipJungleman29]] ([[User talk:AirshipJungleman29|talk]]) 18:30, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
::::: I made him a website for friendship, and he doesn't use it any more. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 18:42, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
::::::So, just to clarify, when I asked "have you ever been affiliated with Mr Waterhouse's business in any way" and you answered "No", what you actually meant was "Yes, I created the website he used to advertise his work for a dozen years and included references to the DYKs I wrote <link removed> for him"?
:::::But it's fine—it was all "for friendship". Or was it? I seem to find a very similar site <link removed> hosted on the {{redacted}} website. That seems an odd coincidence—but that is all it must be, because "friendship" does not overlap with "Business Consulting", correct? [[User:AirshipJungleman29|~~ AirshipJungleman29]] ([[User talk:AirshipJungleman29|talk]]) 19:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
:::::: Just to clarify, I am not a business consultant, and the person running the @bc website is a different person who is also a personal friend of Graham. The website is a collection of compositions, concerts, CDs, reviews, informative rather than advertising. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 09:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
== ITN recognition for [[Notker Wolf]] ==
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: Thank you, lovely! - I confess that I hoped to see [[Gerhard Lohfink]] recognised for recent deaths, - everybody: please see if you could support that, [[WP:ITNN#RD: Gerhard Lohfink]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 19:09, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
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== ITN recognition for [[Kalevi Kiviniemi]] ==
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This was the music and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths|memory]] section on 9 April: arms raised, while [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#9 Apr|Marian Anderson's concert]] was remembered and Hildegard of Bingen's [[Physica (Hildegard)|Physica]] reflected, - joy to the world! We see the "rock abbot" with his band, a church designed by some of the handicapped using it, and the [[Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine]] led by the inspiring [[Oksana Lyniv]]. Don't miss the Halleluja video ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 06:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
== Seen [[User talk:Wifione]] ==
Hi, you [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AWifione&diff=1218204704&oldid=1218203234 removed a notice] from [[User talk:Wifione]] mentioning ''seen'', are you [[User:Wifione]]?? I do not understand. Thanks, <small> Please feel free to ping/mention </small> -- [[User:User4edits|User4edits]] ([[User talk:User4edits|T]]) 11:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
: That account is indeffed, - what will notes be good for? I - talk page stalker - have seen it, have decided that it can be deleted without problem, - no need to clutter the talk page further. I removed 2 notices for that user. I do the same for other blocked or retired users, and have been thanked for that ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 11:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
::Bit odd, as another logic could be ''what will the removal be good for? '' Anyway, Thanks, <small> Please feel free to ping/mention </small> -- [[User:User4edits|User4edits]] ([[User talk:User4edits|T]]) 11:24, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
:::Also, I hope you understand my POV, as when someone ''"seen"'' and blanking they would assume that it is done by/behalf of the user concerned. Thanks, <small> Please feel free to ping/mention </small> -- [[User:User4edits|User4edits]] ([[User talk:User4edits|T]]) 11:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
:::: I saw the removals for [[User talk:BrownHairedGirl]], sometimes several per day. Clutter of the talk, imho. The notice is good if someone reacts and goes to the discussion. If nothing happens it's good for nothing, of for what? - Agreed, ideally I should wait a week for others to see and perhaps react, but I'm sure I'll forget ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 12:15, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
== A barnstar for you! ==
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Thank you, I had to look it up, though (while I had met Dobostorte in Budapest). Listening to Marian Anderson's "Tremble" yesterday was a revelation I wanted to share. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 14:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
== Canvassing ==
Please do not canvas editors to discussions on infoboxes as you did [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MyCatIsAChonk&diff=prev&oldid=1217097181 here] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Barkeep49&diff=prev&oldid=1217012830 here], or you will be topic banned from infobox discussions. [[User:ScottishFinnishRadish|ScottishFinnishRadish]] ([[User talk:ScottishFinnishRadish|talk]]) 19:57, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
: Rubbing my eyes further: the question wasn't infobox yes or no (which I would see as an infobox discussion), but whether a composer's compositions belong in it. It came to an RfC, and the result was yes. - I try to avoid infobox discussions, waste of time, a ban wouldn't change much. My post to MyCatIsAChonk was an alert to an ''edit war'' (not a discussion) a few days before that article (to which he contributed) went to the Main page, and said "watch", - not "take part". My post to Barkeep49 was one in a long series of questions trying to understand where the problem is, and how to be understood. Both users expressed satisfaction with {{diff|Aaron Copland|1217139268||the outcome}}, DYK? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 20:08, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
::@[[User:ScottishFinnishRadish|ScottishFinnishRadish]] Frankly, this warning is ridiculous and it's certainly not in good faith. [[User:Nemov|Nemov]] ([[User talk:Nemov|talk]]) 21:06, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
::: Nemov, this is serious [[Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2024|AE]] stuff. - I've been [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive167#Gerda_Arendt|there before]], [[User:ScottishFinnishRadish|ScottishFinnishRadish]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 21:25, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
::There's a few things to address here. First, an infobox discussion isn't solely a discussion about if an infobox should be included in an article. Discussions about how to implement an infobox are also infobox discussions. This is similar to a discussion about pizza could be a discussion about if people want to eat pizza, or what type of pizza they would like to eat. Also, there was no edit war, {{u|Nikkimaria}} had reverted the edit you made, and you had already started a discussion. A single revert is not an edit war, but reaching out to someone to ask them to watch an article, even if it was just after a revert without discussion, is canvassing. Even moreso when there is an active discussion on the talk page. Saying "watch" rather than "make an edit supporting me" doesn't provide immunity from canvassing rules. Lastly, the outcome of a discussion also has no bearing on if you violated the canvassing guideline. [[User:ScottishFinnishRadish|ScottishFinnishRadish]] ([[User talk:ScottishFinnishRadish|talk]]) 21:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
::: Please look a bit deeper into the edit history <s>of the article</s> (Sorry, it is too late, and my memory: the following was Vivaldi.) Yes, Nikkimaria reverted only once, but there were four reverts. - Also: I wrote to many people that day, - canvassing (for me at least) would have meant telling all about this. But no, MyCatIsAChonk, because of the upcoming TFA appearance of Appalachian Spring. That was ''an alert'', and if reaching out to someone to be watchful is canvassing we really don't understand the word the same way. A few days later, and happier, I asked ''many people'' how they liked the compromise? [[User:Barkeep49|Barkeep49]], for example, in the same thread as what you linked. - It's past midnight where I live, and it's a funeral day for me, - please excuse me and put things in perspective. For example achieve more compromise. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 22:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
::::I'm not sure why I'm being pinged. All that I've said is I have no opinion on this and whatever consensus is reached will be good by me. [[User:Barkeep49|Barkeep49]] ([[User_talk:Barkeep49|talk]]) 23:43, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
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== "Not dead, but very wet" ==
Dear Gerda, Thankyou for your several kind and cheerful messages over the past couple of months. In case you are wondering, I have not slipped off this mortal coil, at least not yet, but have for various reasons given myself a rest from wp. For one thing I am terribly busy with my supercentenarian Mum whose daily needs for attention are many - for another, I have a progressing series of ailments of my own, including Parkinson's, which keep me feeling fairly grotty - but, most influentially, since my last editing efforts, I have a sense of complete futility at editing here when confronted with the sort of criticisms and condescension which provoked my last long reply on my talk page. I haven't got the stomach to rise to the bait. However I am still here and still watching. [[User:Eebahgum|Eebahgum]] ([[User talk:Eebahgum|talk]]) 08:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you, and no, I grant every friend long silences ;) - best wishes for you and your mother! Please keep reading - I provide my daily stories thinking of people like you. I was in [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#19 Apr|the performance mentioned today]] (with trailer), - in 2018 DYK made that possible, but 2024 is a different troupe. I carry my load of condescension (see above) but it doesn't keep me from proclaiming the miracle that music is. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 08:28, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
== You've got mail ==
This is indeed not a template, but yes I did email you using old-technology electronic email, like in the good old days! Cheers [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 20:51, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you and enjoyed!! - I discovered a video on [[William Waterhouse (bassoonist)|William Waterhouse]] (at the bottom of his article) that you might also like. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 21:14, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
::Oh lovely, thank you. Glad you enjoyed. Video: I shall look. Best wishes [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 22:13, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
:::Ah yes v v good video. Lovely footage of Elisabeth. Thank you! [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 18:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
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: Thank you, I try ;) (forgot to sign yesterday) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 07:20, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
== Precious anniversary ==
Gerda Arendt, I am always pleased to find these reminders on other editors' talk pages, and now on mine. Thank you for the anniversary. -[[User:SusanLesch|SusanLesch]] ([[User talk:SusanLesch|talk]]) 13:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
: Thank you, that's good to know! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 21:14, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Gerda. Good to see that you're helping rotate OTD items. A note about [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/May_5&diff=prev&oldid=1222087945 your edit to May 5]: when removing an image, remember to put it back into the staging area, so it can be reused in the future. Also comment out the "(pictured)" text—don't delete it—so editors know in the future that there is an image available for that item. Don't worry, I've [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/May_5&diff=prev&oldid=1222329979 made the changes already]. Also note [[Special:Permalink/1222329379#Errors in "On this day"|this discussion at ERRORS]] about the image's display text (you had left "A depiction of the Battle of the Wilderness"). Thanks.—[[User:Bagumba|Bagumba]] ([[User talk:Bagumba|talk]]) 11:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
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==[[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)]]==
Today we should all be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first performance of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Pity we all forgot to mention it on Wikipedia's main page.--[[User:Ipigott|Ipigott]] ([[User talk:Ipigott|talk]]) 06:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
: It's pictured on the Main page, POD, and mentioned on my User page ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 06:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
== FAC mentoring ==
Hello. I am [[WP:FAM|mentoring for FAC]]. I've worked hard on the [[Sarah Geronimo]] article, and I wanted to be nominated at FAC. Do you mind checking on the article? Also, if there are issues needed to be addressed, please state it here. '''[[User:ScarletViolet|<span style="color:#e82102;">Scarlet</span><span style="color:#6500a8;">Violet</span>]]''' ([[User talk:ScarletViolet|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/ScarletViolet|contribs]]) 13:13, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
: I am willing to look but have little time this week. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 13:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
== A barnstar for you ==
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Thank you for caring, but I am not quite sure what you mean. If you refer to erratic posts with edit summaries removed, they don't bother me much. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 21:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
:Ah!
:: Please wash the egg away, - I ''am troubled'' by [[Talk:Peter Grimes|the discussion]] mentioned in the thread below. - Today, however, is a feast day, look on top, and if you have little time, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzbOSm_xj8w just listen] and be happy. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 06:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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my story today:
In Bach's fourth 1724 chorale cantata,
Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135,
for the third Sunday after Trinity
based on a hymn by Cyriakus Schneegass,
the first movement is a polyphonic chorale fantasia
with the bass as the cantus firmus.
(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)
memory and music
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2024
I made two cards for the transition from 2023 to 2024:
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Bach composed
Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht,
BWV 134a,
as a congratulatory cantata
for the court of Köthen,
first performed
on New Year's Day 1719.
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A German theologian wrote
"Vertraut den neuen Wegen"
(Trust the new ways)
to the melody of
Lob Gott getrost mit Singen
(Praise God confidently with singing)
to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach
shortly before the fall of the Wall.
A little child, a little lamb, on a backdrop of war and death: hoping for more peace in 2024! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
These were my "stories" on 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2023. If you want to follow a daily sentence throughout the year, use {{User Gerda Arendt/Top}}, and for the calendar pictures and the music of the year, see User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024. Let's stay inspired and connected. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
2024 · the anniversary of Bach's chorale cantatas
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2024 is the anniversary of the Achtliederbuch, the first Lutheran hymnal of 500 years ago, and - possibly related - Bach's cycle of Chorale cantatas 300 years ago. His works and the chorales on which they are based will be a focus for 2024. Ongoing are locations that played a role in my life, recent deaths, music heard and sung, composers, gardens. Watch my user page for articles, done in collaboration. Compare 2023 for the amazing number of users who began and expanded articles. Thanks also to reviewers, and I do plan to review more and write less, and in writing, focus more on quality than the little daily article.
2024 talk begins at #Have a happy New Year, Gerda!, 2024 calender pics and musical events begin here, and the 2024 diary of my own pictures of places, songs, food, flowers ... will come here, - just watch those lists if you are interested.
My talk goes like this: on top there's the "story" related to the day. Below are three boxes, often one for people remembered and two for musical experiences, performing or listening. In these boxes, topics related to the top story and topics featured on the Main page appear bold. Right here you see the image of the month with songs of the month, typically related to meetings with friends who gave them to me. I archive from time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:35, 1 January 2024 (UTC) - updated order --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Have a happy New Year, Gerda!
Belated seasons greetings; great contribution
Belated Christmas greetings and happy new year. I have not sent my usual greetings this season. Coordinator work, preparing a talk for January 2 and real life have me quite busy. I just took better notice of User:Gerda Arendt/Stories. As always, this is another great contribution to the project by you. Donner60 (talk) 22:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you, Donner60, and all the best for 2024! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
Dear Gerda, I apologize for not replying to your thoughtful messages. December is usually a busy month for me; this one has been even more so, much of it because of my own doing! But I wanted to let you know that I did read them and that it means very much to me that you took the trouble to think of me, despite my occasional irascibility. (Within me the patrimony of my hot-blooded Italian forebears are ever in conflict with the expressive austerity of my Basque ancestors!) Thank you for everything that you do on here. My sincerest wishes to you for good health and much joy in 2024! :) —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 21:43, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for your personal expression, and have a good curry time in 2024 - brief, off to the village fireworks to come. I just finished my pics of 2023, and it was a good harvest, in the end of many Christmas trees, angels, high water and a flaming sky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:38, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Have a wonderful New Year, Gerda!
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A year filled with music and song, food and friends, hiking and nature! |
Hi Gerda Arendt, Best wishes that the new year brings peace, prosperity, health and happiness. |
Netherzone, thank you for a lovely start in the new year, - see my "response" (written before I went to bed).
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year! |
Happy New Year from Martha and I! Appalachian Spring was one of many articles you helped me with this year, and I am beyond grateful for the support and time you've given me in my first full year as an editor. Here's to a new year of composers, compositions, and singers! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 00:43, 1 January 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you for the personal greeting, and it's all my pleasure, MyCatIsAChonk. Igor and I. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Have a good year in 2024
Make the music and keep up the good work! Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 15:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, Peter, for coming over! Same to you! - I try. What do you think of my question here? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Thank You!
Hi Gerda, Just to wish you a Happy New Year and to say that I'm retiring from Wikipedia after a good innings. Thank you for your encouragement and cheerfulness! I will still be contactable via my talk page and have said I'm happy to answer questions there too. Bless you Bermicourt (talk) 18:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, sad to see you go, but do what's best for you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- I'm considering contributing to German Wikipedia instead, but conscious I'm not a native speaker so will need to up my game! Maybe I'll see you there! :) Bermicourt (talk) 17:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- Fine, - ping me when you create something to be reviewed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- I'm considering contributing to German Wikipedia instead, but conscious I'm not a native speaker so will need to up my game! Maybe I'll see you there! :) Bermicourt (talk) 17:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Original Barnstar |
I bestow this award to you, Gerda, for being an untiring teacher. Along with creating so many new music articles that the world can enjoy, you also share with me (and others) interesting anecdotes about the music and your life. I really appreciate the learnings from the messages you leave, and as a token of my thanks, this barnstar is for you. Rosiestep (talk) 20:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you, Rosie, that's very original and touching! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
On 5 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the new Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, listing 420 compositions, was introduced at a festival celebrating Abel's tercentenary in Köthen? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel).
Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- Wonderful to see this on the main page after the wait! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 17:15, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- About time. Article begun in May, meant to appear with the Abel Fest in June. Then we missed his birthday on 22 December. I wanted it with the image, for various reasons,
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The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel,
listing 420 compositions,
was introduced
at a festival
celebrating Abel's tercentenary
in Köthen.
but this is better than nothing. - What do you think of the nom for Anna Nekhames? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel 5 Jan
- Ryland Davies 9 Jan
- Kihwan Sim 12 Jan
- Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst 15 Jan
- Thomas Fritzsch 16 Jan
- St. Joseph, Wedding 20 Jan
- Vivi Vassileva 21 Jan
- St. Martin, Oestrich 25 Jan
- Shalom chaverim 25 Jan
- Anna Nekhames 26 Jan
- Stephen Gould (tenor) 7 Feb
- Tamara Milashkina 20 Feb
- Caspar Richter 3 Mar
- Cecelia Hall 23 Mar
- Kelsey Lauritano 26 Mar
- Florian Ludwig 26 Mar
- Karsten Januschke 29 Mar
- Tilmann Köhler 5 Apr
- Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine 30 Apr
- Magdalena Hinterdobler 10 May
ITN recognition for Hermann Baumann (musician)
On 5 January 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hermann Baumann (musician), which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 01:00, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, PFHLai, for the first of the year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
For more detail see Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:30, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hermann Baumann (musician) - PFHLai (talk) 01:00, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- Chris Karrer - Stephen 22:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
- Tamara Milashkina - PFHLai (talk) 23:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
- Romuald Twardowski - Stephen 01:41, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ewa Podleś - Stephen 00:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Gerd Uecker - Stephen 10:28, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oskar Negt - Stephen 22:41, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- Helga Paris - Stephen 22:41, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Seiji Ozawa - SpencerT•C 05:47, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Alfred Grosser - Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 00:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ladislav Burlas - Stephen 00:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
- Rudolf Jansen - PFHLai (talk) 19:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
- Johanna von Koczian - PFHLai (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ira von Fürstenberg - Stephen 23:31, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
- Gabriela Grillo - Stephen 08:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- Françoise Garner - PFHLai (talk) 12:33, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
- Guy Touvron - PFHLai (talk) 23:59, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Aribert Reimann - Stephen 21:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Maurizio Pollini - – robertsky (talk) 02:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- Peter Eötvös - Tone 10:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Günther Leib - PFHLai (talk) 21:26, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- Judith Hemmendinger - Stephen 23:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hans Joachim Meyer - Stephen 01:56, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Notker Wolf - PFHLai (talk) 17:28, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Gerhard Lohfink - Stephen 23:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- Kalevi Kiviniemi - Stephen 23:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- Michael Boder - PFHLai (talk) 16:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- Dieter Rexroth - PFHLai (talk) 23:30, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- Joe Viera - Amakuru (talk) 11:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC) (14 Apr)
- Lorenzo Palomo - Stephen 01:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Andrew Davis - SpencerT•C 19:28, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Samuel Kummer - – robertsky (talk) 07:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Peter Demetz - SpencerT•C 21:32, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Macht hoch die Tür
The article Macht hoch die Tür you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Macht hoch die Tür for comments about the article, and Talk:Macht hoch die Tür/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Schminnte -- Schminnte (talk) 22:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- Macht hoch die Tür - Schminnte (talk) 22:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- Stephen Gould (tenor) - MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 00:03, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ryland Davies - Utopes (talk) 19:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 - MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 11:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Notice
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:45, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- Gerda, perhaps if you started out every hook with "Did you know ... that Narutolovehinata5 is very important ... and also [insert hook here]. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
For all the wonderful things you do for the encyclopedia, especially for spreading friendship, and for bringing music to the main page with your DYK work there. Thank you for being you! Netherzone (talk) 01:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC) |
- Seconding @Netherzone here. I didn't see the post in time to oppose vehemently. But I love what you bring to all areas, especially talk pages since that's where I frequently see you @Gerda Arendt. Thanks for always sharing your passions with us. Star Mississippi 17:59, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
I offer you my deepest apologies Gerda
Hello Gerda. I would just want you to know that I am very sorry for the ANI discussion I started earlier. I had been having some real-life stress lately and it felt like it may have affected my feelings on-wiki. I'm very sorry for the attitude I have shown you over the past few weeks. I very much appreciate your efforts on Wikipedia and your dedication to the project even if we disagree on many things, and I just want to let you know that despite everything that has happened you are still an editor I admire and respect. You are a net positive to DYK and while we may disagree on views, what we can agree on is that your articles are very informative and a net good to the project. Again, I am sorry for what I have done. Rest assured that regardless of our differences I support your efforts on Wikipedia to improve our coverage on classical music and Germany. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:46, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- I woke up thinking Joy to the world. I tried to bring joy, it's turned into trivia, and I'm accused of bad faith. Travelling now, no time to even look. Before looking, I can't tell if I can accept apologies, which may may be tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Narutolovehinata5, still today, I'm on a train, the train has a connection (all things that can't be taken for granted): apologies for attitude accepted, but I hope that it really will change, because I felt it becoming a danger to diversity of information and freedom of speech. For those unfamiliar with the situation: we escalated over the hook for Kihwan Sim, which was replaced in prep against my protest. That hook should not run, it's a triviality said about a living person who deserves merit for specific achievements. - I looked at the thread and found some gems of support there that I will place in my "blushing" cabinet, - thank you, all! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- This is not an indictment of Naruto but like others on the AN/I thread I have found that Wikipedia seems to have become more hostile. I suppose one could surmise at least somewhat that it is born out of necessity. We appear to live at a time where I feel my thoughts on life and the way I wish to live life are going the way of faeries and dragons. Nobody cares, love is fleeting, and civility and affording basic human respect are more centered on your position in relation to mine rather than the fact you are a fellow human being. The cruelty is not AN/I or Naruto's position. The cruelty is everything that has led up to it. People are becoming less nice and we are told it is normal, discussions less civil but we are told to accept it. Where is the empathy?
- Gerda, you are a blessing and so precious, my friend. I said it after we first met and I maintain that yours is one the brightest lights I have been so fortunate to meet here. Keep singing, keep shining, keep being you. --ARoseWolf 13:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
For a sunbeam on these winter afternoons
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My small thanks for the large amount of work you do here, Rjjiii (talk) 09:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC) |
The Medal for Joy
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The medal for bringing joy to Wikipedia |
The ANI thread was closed by the OP before there could be a formal close by a third party. Reviewing it post-close, I see a strong consensus that you should be awarded a medal for the joy that you bring to Wikipedia. So, here it is - enjoy! And thanks from me personally for all of our past interactions, and all the work you do here. Girth Summit (blether) 19:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC) |
- THIS! Gerda you are a beloved contributor, who first encouraged me to submit a DYK and taught me how the process worked by your kind words, "watch what I do". I've learned so much from you over the years about patience, diplomacy, and of course I appreciate how you generously spread joy, music, food, and nature within this community, and the global community. And personally, you have educated this old-skool rock-n-roller about opera and classical music general. You rock, girl! Thank you, precious! Netherzone (talk) 03:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Upper Bounds
Hi, Gerda, I hope you will forgive me for overstepping my bounds. They are both positive to infinity & beyond. I look forward to seeing your postings online in the future. You do some amazing things around here :) cheers to the 11th & to 2024! Ktochle (talk) 20:49, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
A musical barnstar!
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The Music Barnstar | |
For your hard work on expanding so many articles on musical compositions, hymns, opera and lesser-known singers, and bringing many of them to ITN! Keep up the good work! ChaotıċEnby(t · c) 21:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC) |
DYK for Kihwan Sim
On 12 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kihwan Sim, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kihwan Sim, a bass-baritone performer at the Oper Frankfurt, learned to play the tuba during his two years of military service? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kihwan Sim. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kihwan Sim), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Kihwan Sim
Thank you for support, barnstars and recognition. I had a great day with friends and family, and am too tired for individual comments. What brought us here was my DYK nomination for a singer who fascinated me, Template:Did you know nominations/Kihwan Sim, followed by questioning the sourcing for part of the hook together with the suggestion of a completely different hook, WT:DYK#Kihwan Sim. I was away, and didn't see that this new hook, although I objected and explained that I was away, was put in prep. I still object, a) because it says something trivial about him instead of celebrating his achievements, b) because I hate to be held responsible for putting "military" on the Main page. It reached the Main page now. Help?? - I will have no time for Wikipedia today, as yesterday. - For those who believe that our readers are not interested in opera: in the last case of an opera singer, Ryland Davies, more people viewed the opera than the singer. Let's not underestimate our readers, and not censor what we offer them. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:11, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Still little time: I told the story today that I wanted to tell, and the Main page still has the story I think tells too little. Thank you for all support, but the most wanted support would be to change that. The approved version is in the nomination, also a modified hook that was taken to prep. Everybody: don't miss to look and listen, Sim and Guggeis in interview, and the French revolution hints ;) - "Se vuol ballare" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:47, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- I totally get your POV and I sympathize, but I think the hook on the main page is quite good. I understand that you think differently. Sometimes when we get really close to a subject, we get a bit of tunnel vision and that's normal. I personally like the idea that we can meet somewhere in the middle. Viriditas (talk) 21:36, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Please don't get me wrong: I don't think it was an impossible hook, but it wasn't what I wanted to tell, - I wanted to talk about the first production of our fascinating new GMD, and the title role would have been the best related topic. What I disliked was that it was thrown in prep without consulting me. Also: the world "military" in the hook is really something I don't get behind. - I wanted to mention the French Revolution, and you may have seen the hints, not only in expressive gestures, but also the French flag colours by constellation of the performers for a moment ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
The Main Page Barnstar
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Incredibly upset at the recent ANI, both that it existed and that I missed the opportunity to comment in it. However, there's no time limit on giving a barnstar, so better late than never: Gerda, you deserve more barnstars than the WP community could ever pour on you, for both your tireless contributions to the Main Page and article space, but also for indefatigable ability to spread good cheer behind the scenes. Thank you for everything that you do - best wishes, Frzzl talk; contribs 12:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you, and don't be upset please about something that seems to clarify things. Thank you for the barnstar and the recognition - much appreciated! - I brought more than 90 names to the News section of the Main page, many more than DYK, and experience much more collegial reviewing in that field. - You can comment in the matter, and more productively than in WP:Great Dismal Swamp: check out my user page and look for articles nominated for DYK, and review or comment there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst
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Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 00:02, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
A piece we sang in 1999, to end a century of violence. My story today. I like recordings, 1951 with the original performers and 2020 Windsbacher Knabenchor, with explanations (in German). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:04, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
DYK for St. Joseph, Wedding
On 20 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St. Joseph, Wedding, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that St. Joseph, a 1909 Catholic church in the Romanesque Revival style in Berlin-Wedding, has served as an interim cathedral since 2018? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St. Joseph, Wedding. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, St. Joseph, Wedding).
Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 00:02, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Cute: today is the birthday of a friend whose wedding was on a 17 September, the day I was at St. Joseph, Wedding, in 2023 and took the two photos in the article - see also more details. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:29, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
DYK for St. Martin, Oestrich
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—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Shalom chaverim
On 25 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shalom chaverim, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Shalom chaverim" ('Peace, friends'), a Hebrew traditional folk song, has been sung at events commemorating the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitic violence? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shalom chaverim. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Shalom chaverim).
—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:52, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
27 January
Birthday of Mozart and our conductor:
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DYK for Stephen Gould (tenor)
On 7 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stephen Gould (tenor), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stephen Gould (tenor). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Stephen Gould (tenor)).
—Ganesha811 (talk) 02:08, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- Finally, good to see him at DYK! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 11:53, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- yes, thank you for noticing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
BWV 22
Every time I visit your pages I end up having to learn about a lovely new cantata! Thank you so much for all your work. It's BWV 22 right now – what a gorgeous thing, despite the tragic lack of trumpets.
I have a personally busy time coming up with Bach and some other guy called Handel and some other other guy called Telemann. Should be fun.
Cheers!! DBaK (talk) 19:56, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- Cheers back, listening right now to an opera by the Handel guy (Poro) which Telemann presented as Cleofida in Hamburg in 1732 adding marches he must have enjoyed writing. German recitatives. Never heard. Delightful. - You don't have to come to my page as long you have "story" in a box by me ;) - Our Bach endeavour will be three cantatas!!! 5 May, - come over, plenty of trumpets in BWV 11 ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Seiji Ozawa
On 12 February 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Seiji Ozawa, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 05:47, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
12 years
Dear Gerda, thanks for your greeting, which I warmly reciprocate. I have stepped back from wp for the past few months, partly because of pressures at home (caring for supercentenarian mother). But you rightly diagnose the local cause of inactivity and I will strive to take your precious advice to heart. Thanks for noticing, and very best wishes for 2024. So sorry about Seiji Ozawa. Eebahgum (talk) 14:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! - I thank Ozawa personally two (mostly) unforgettable matinees in Tanglewood (where children under 5 were not welcome for the concerts, but the dress rehearsals), of Haydn's Die Schöpfung, choir all in white and singing from memory, "Und eine neue Welt" (And a new world) of unearthly lightness, and a Mozart piano concerto with Mitsuko Uchida (forgot which, forgot rest of the program) when all the birds under the roof of the Shed began chirping when the piano entered, and remember how she smiled. - I thank Christoph Eschenbach for a great Verdi Requiem at the same place, and could do so in person after a concert of Bruckner's Sixths, saying that I liked it very much (and it had been 12 years earlier), and he smiled and said "Ich auch". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Uchida held us breathless at Snape Maltings a few years ago with a solo concert of the three final Beethoven sonatas. It seems somehow improper to comment on such a comprehensively personal and dynamically brilliant exposition, but we certainly felt the warmth of the pedalling building the whole conception. It was terrific Beethoven! Your mention of the chirping birds reminds me of an open air evening concert in the Forum in Rome back in 1977 - it was Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and every time the horns came in, all the wild cats that live in the Forum responded by yowling together in a loud chorus after a moment's delay. Whether they liked it or not I don't know, but it touched something in their souls, for the effect came back a couple of times as if it had been written into Sonata Form. Happy cats! Eebahgum (talk) 01:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you!
Just making sure someone remembers to thank *you* for all your work on editor retention, all your new articles and DYKs, and your general good cheer and Excellent work. We love having you here. Stay cool. jengod (talk) 16:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, jengod, feels good! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:35, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
Dear Gerda, it's such a pleasure to hear from you -- a most welcome antidote to the ambitions, rivalries, and animosities ubiquitous at Wikipedia as elsewhere in this human-inhabited world. Nihil novi (talk) 07:13, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- Such a nice thing to read when waking up! If you want to hear from me monthly, join WP:QAI, and if you want to hear from me daily use {{User Gerda Arendt/Top}} (which is easier). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Tamara Milashkina
On 20 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tamara Milashkina, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Soviet soprano Tamara Milashkina performed alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tamara Milashkina. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tamara Milashkina), and the hook may be added to the statistics page.
—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
My story was different, mentioning the Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
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Tamara Milashkina,
the first Soviet Russian soprano trained at La Scala,
portrayed Russian characters
with emotion and authenticity
touring with the Bolshoi Theatre
as Tchaikovsky's Tatyana at the Vienna State Opera
and as Lisa at the Metropolitan Opera.
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Listen to my next subject singing Tchaikovsky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
- Moving Grimes2 (talk) 16:20, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for this treat! (How is it that you know what I like?) Viriditas (talk) 19:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
- You like what I like. Thank you for coming over. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thankyou for the Tchaikowsky "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" (Nyet, tolko tot menya). You were lucky to hear such a performance live. I like the old Melodiya version by Sergei Lemeshev (his alluring measure and sweetness) but of course quite a different affair to your singer's noble account. Why is it (language aside) that Tchaikowsky's setting never really feels like Goethe? Is it Russian pessimism colliding with echt German Welt-angst? Do the Russian lyrics really render the same words? In the English versions, "None but the desolate" beats "None but the lonely heart", but both are entirely inadequate: you don't get that resonance of the desolate individual such as you also have in "Wer nie sein Brot mit Thränen aß..."Eebahgum (talk) 13:02, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- (I saw her on stage but with completely different music, and as Suzuki, Cherubino and Paolo.) I can't tell for the Russian, but know that some German words and probably concepts have no true expression in English, and "Sehnsucht" is one of them. Music, however, is much more internationally understood. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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- The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago).
- Yesterday I learned that a friend suddenly died; we both belonged to a group that traveled once a year for decades, and I remember her vivid talk last summer, same voice and sparkle as when we met. Her song for me was Take the "A" Train, sung by Ella Fitzgerald. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- The image pictures hope. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- Seele, vergiß sie nicht --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:41, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
- Today is her birthday. Once we went to St. Stephan together, after meeting for good food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you for all the work you do on Wikipedia, from ITN to all your contributions to various topics such as churches, women, and German articles. It is hard workers like you that help to improve the project, and are an inspiration to many who want to also continually improve the project as well. Cheers, atque supra! Fakescientist8000 17:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
- It is a pleasure to expand knowledge, and double so when recognized, - thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:27, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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For all the preciousness you bring into this world. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 21:46, 21 February 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you, blushing, - I try, look above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:40, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Ryland Davies
The article Ryland Davies you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ryland Davies for comments about the article, and Talk:Ryland Davies/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Utopes -- Utopes (talk) 19:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, Utopes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:19, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
For your reading
Hope all is well! A brief article on the very first Chinese woman mathematics PhD, who got it from München: Xu Ruiyun. Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 18:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you - I read too little. Will go to München on Sunday. My story today plays in München, with music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
29 February 2024
is a rare birthday:
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Gioachino Rossini
(born 29 February 1792)
scored the last of his "sins of old age",
the Petite messe solennelle,
for twelve singers, two pianos, and harmonium.
listen
When Heather Phillips
made her European debut
in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero,
her nuanced coloraturas served
to portray Bianca's development.
-- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:02, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
new section
please continue to leave messages at my talk page where you are always welcome. I may not respond every time but I do follow the links. Your messages are uplifting and encouraging. You are PRECIOUS to me. --ARoseWolf 18:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
- I love that, thank you for the unexpected visit: I thought you were gone for weeks --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:37, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
March flowers
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The flowers photographed last year on the island of Madeira became a symbol for missing Vami_IV. They are connected to another stay on the island. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Poulenc
Ah yes the Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone – what a delight, and what a hoot for the players. So pleased you mentioned it.
Did you know that Felix Aprahamian used to show people a tree just round the corner from here, on which Poulenc had had a wee? It's in his obit. According to my in-laws, Aprahamian sometimes used to jokingly propose that the tree should have a memorial plaque ... DBaK (talk) 09:42, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- No I didn't know ;) - today's story is about Jo Vincent who appeared with Kathleen Perrier and Peter Pears in Britten's Spring Symphony. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Otilie Suková
I {{ill}} linked her in Josef Suk (composer) because I wanted to know if Josef Suk (violinist) had known her. (Alas, he hadn't.) I'm planning to introduce a friend to Violin Sonatina (Dvořák), which is evidence that great music doesn't have to be technically challenging. How proud he must have been of his kids! Narky Blert (talk) 16:48, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Aribert Reimann
On 19 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Aribert Reimann, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 21:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)
On 23 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall portrayed the lead male role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how).
WaggersTALK 00:03, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Kelsey Lauritano
On 26 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kelsey Lauritano, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Kelsey Lauritano portrayed Mozart's Cherubino, a reviewer from the FAZ noted her "almost metallic-brittle approach that spreads androgynous infatuation"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kelsey Lauritano. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kelsey Lauritano).
♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thought this said "a reviewer from the FAC" at first and I was like huh?? :D DanCherek (talk) 11:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Maurizio Pollini
On 28 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Maurizio Pollini, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. – robertsky (talk) 02:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
In appreciation
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For not ringing the fire alarm of going to ERRORS for Karsten Januschke. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:56, 28 March 2024 (UTC) |
Thank you. - For me, ERRORS is not a hall of flames, but an area where admins with a broader horizon stop by. This is to hope that a certain narrow view in the DYK corner will widen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:36, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Günther Leib
On 28 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Günther Leib, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 21:26, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Easter
Any ideas for Easter hooks? Lightburst (talk) 23:20, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for asking. No, sorry, not this year. I have four nominations for people who recently died, two are open, - that kept me busy. What I wanted was Bach's St John Passion for OTD tomorrow, first performed on Good Friday 1724, but I was reverted claiming that OTD can't go by feast but only by date, so it would have to be 7 April. Impossible. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Good Friday
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... that on Good Friday 2020,
Benedikt Kristjánsson
sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of
Bach's St John Passion,
composed for Good Friday 1724,
broadcast live from the composer's burial place.
I remember listening to the performance live, early in the lockdown, the festival cancelled when it had be scheduled to be performed ... He has it in #2 in his media, preceded by Tristis est anima mea. - He will sing Bach with us in May, Ascension Oratorio. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I listen now on radio to the St John Passion from the Berliner Philharmonie, with the RIAS Kammerchor, Evangelist beginning, - teaser, broadcast. - I uploaded the images from 17 March, beginning with a "bloody" morning sky and ending with a procession of a figure of Jesus carrying the Cross, with a wind band and drums. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:22, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Easter Sunday
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For Easter 1724,
his first as Thomaskantor in Leipzig,
Johann Sebastian Bach revived
Christ lag in Todes Banden,
(Christ lay in death's bonds)
BWV 4,
a chorale cantata
he had composed in his twenties,
using in all seven movements
the words and tune
of Luther's 1524 Easter chorale.
Remembering Easter 300 years ago continues: Bach revived for for his first Easter as Thomaskantor in Leipzig a masterpiece from his early career, his first chorale cantata, and how different from those to come a few weeks after this. - Per chance, I received the YouTube link today from the conductor who just uploaded it to mark the occasion. I sang with the Idsteiner Solisten several times but not in that performance. You can follow the music! - I also uploaded more images, from a tropical garden and a famous nearby church. Happy Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:55, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Easter Monday
The opening chorus of
Bach's cantata
for the Second Day of Easter,
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66,
first performed in 1724
has been termed
"one of the longest and
most exhilarating of Bach's early works".
... and the following day, Leipzig could listen to "exhilarating" music which we performed in 2000, with great joy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Happy Easter!
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- Thank you, and also to you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Re:Precious anniversary
Dear Gerda Arendt, I wanted to thank you for sharing a reminder of my Precious Anniversary. I still remain grateful for you presenting me with such a thoughtful commemoration on that day. Additionally, I wish you and yours a most Happy Easter! With warm regards, AnupamTalk 23:32, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for coming over, and also to you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Karsten Januschke
On 29 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Karsten Januschke, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Karsten Januschke's conducting of Offenbach's Die Banditen was described as producing a "lean, dry, [and] delicate" sound with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Karsten Januschke. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Karsten Januschke).
— Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Péter Eötvös
On 30 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Péter Eötvös, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Tone 10:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red April 2024
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ITN recognition for Judith Hemmendinger
On 31 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Judith Hemmendinger, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 23:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
This article was created and brought to DYK by Yoninah. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Ladislav Burlas
On 3 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ladislav Burlas, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ladislav Burlas. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ladislav Burlas).
Z1720 (talk) 12:02, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Hans Joachim Meyer
On 5 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hans Joachim Meyer, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 01:56, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Tilmann Köhler
On 5 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tilmann Köhler, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Tilmann Köhler directed Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 2023 with playful "serious games" in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tilmann Köhler. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tilmann Köhler).
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
New account
I noticed that you recently marked my old account as retired. This is my new account. My old userpage now redirects to my new one. I decided that it would be best for me to ultimately remain part of this website. Thank you for all of the good work you do here. Scorpions1325 (talk) 00:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- That's great news, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:40, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Precious award
You added some kind of award on to my talk page. Would you explain what the award is and why I would wish to continue to have it on my talk page? -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 15:40, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I added a reminder of an award. There's a link, - perhaps that helps. Just revert if it's not good for you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
A matter of some importance
While we're here, might as well. I believe the normal advice is to report to higher powers ASAP, but I'll give you a chance.
Do you have an external relationship with the composer Graham Waterhouse? If you do, please follow the steps outlined at WP:DISCLOSE for all related pages you have previously created or edited. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:26, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I am a personal friend, and was asked by the arbitration committee to say so. I did that on the biography talk page. I created the biography filling a red link in 2009. The arbitrator said nothing of other pages, or I misunderstood. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Adding: I read the steps outlined. There's a template. I added the template to the biography and the list of compositions. I doubt that many people will read any of the compositions without also checking the composer (before or after). What are related pages. A person to whom he dedicated a piece? Musicians with whom his father played, in the premiere of Britten's War Requiem? Those were my first articles in 2009. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Tried to help and add the template to the top box but feel free to revert if not needed. FWIW, I believe you have edited the article objectively and neutrally. I realize that Having a COI is separate from being biased and I appreciate the steps you are taking to declare a COI. I think it is a beautiful article and I enjoyed reading it. --ARoseWolf 16:22, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for your response. The template is not for readers, but for your fellow editors, and as such, it is best practice to place it on any page that is closely associated with him (Der Handschuh (Waterhouse), Celtic Voices and Hale Bopp, Birkenlicht), but no, I think pages such as Emanuel Hurwitz or Andrew Szydlo are too far away.
- A follow-up, if I may: has your "personal friendship" ever become a professional relationship? for example, have you ever been affiliated with Mr Waterhouse's business in any way, or he with you? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:55, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- No. I have no business. - May I ask what the template on a composition article will tell my fellow editors? Hurwitz and Szydlo were not even created by me, - I only updated. My second article was Siegfried Palm (translated from German, with help from Jerome Kohl), my third Richard Adeney, and my fourth Cecil Aronowitz. My first article was deleted within minutes, and revived with the help by User:Cmadler who knew how important it is to cite awards, and actually went and found sources. He also nominated for DYK, only I didn't like his hook suggestion - what's new? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I am saying that Hurwitz and Szydlo were too unconnected with Mr Waterhouse for you to need to disclose anything. The template on a composition article will show all your fellow editors that you are honest and open about your connections to the subject. It is a question of trust, if you will.
- One last question, if you don't mind: as you have no connection to Mr Waterhouse's business, you are presumably saying that (Redacted) refers to a different Gerda Arendt (Redacted)? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:30, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I made him a website for friendship, and he doesn't use it any more. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:42, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- So, just to clarify, when I asked "have you ever been affiliated with Mr Waterhouse's business in any way" and you answered "No", what you actually meant was "Yes, I created the website he used to advertise his work for a dozen years and included references to the DYKs I wrote <link removed> for him"?
- But it's fine—it was all "for friendship". Or was it? I seem to find a very similar site <link removed> hosted on the (Redacted) website. That seems an odd coincidence—but that is all it must be, because "friendship" does not overlap with "Business Consulting", correct? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Just to clarify, I am not a business consultant, and the person running the @bc website is a different person who is also a personal friend of Graham. The website is a collection of compositions, concerts, CDs, reviews, informative rather than advertising. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- I made him a website for friendship, and he doesn't use it any more. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:42, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- No. I have no business. - May I ask what the template on a composition article will tell my fellow editors? Hurwitz and Szydlo were not even created by me, - I only updated. My second article was Siegfried Palm (translated from German, with help from Jerome Kohl), my third Richard Adeney, and my fourth Cecil Aronowitz. My first article was deleted within minutes, and revived with the help by User:Cmadler who knew how important it is to cite awards, and actually went and found sources. He also nominated for DYK, only I didn't like his hook suggestion - what's new? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Notker Wolf
On 8 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Notker Wolf, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 17:28, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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There is no such thing as enough praise for how much you contribute to the community on wiki. May you always go to bed smiling and may you always wake rested, for the world is better just for having you in it. — ♠ Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum. ♠ 19:00, 9 April 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you, lovely! - I confess that I hoped to see Gerhard Lohfink recognised for recent deaths, - everybody: please see if you could support that, WP:ITNN#RD: Gerhard Lohfink. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:09, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Gerhard Lohfink
On 9 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Gerhard Lohfink, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 23:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Kalevi Kiviniemi
On 9 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Kalevi Kiviniemi, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 23:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
9 April
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This was the music and memory section on 9 April: arms raised, while Marian Anderson's concert was remembered and Hildegard of Bingen's Physica reflected, - joy to the world! We see the "rock abbot" with his band, a church designed by some of the handicapped using it, and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine led by the inspiring Oksana Lyniv. Don't miss the Halleluja video ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Seen User talk:Wifione
Hi, you removed a notice from User talk:Wifione mentioning seen, are you User:Wifione?? I do not understand. Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 11:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- That account is indeffed, - what will notes be good for? I - talk page stalker - have seen it, have decided that it can be deleted without problem, - no need to clutter the talk page further. I removed 2 notices for that user. I do the same for other blocked or retired users, and have been thanked for that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- Bit odd, as another logic could be what will the removal be good for? Anyway, Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 11:24, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- Also, I hope you understand my POV, as when someone "seen" and blanking they would assume that it is done by/behalf of the user concerned. Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 11:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- I saw the removals for User talk:BrownHairedGirl, sometimes several per day. Clutter of the talk, imho. The notice is good if someone reacts and goes to the discussion. If nothing happens it's good for nothing, of for what? - Agreed, ideally I should wait a week for others to see and perhaps react, but I'm sure I'll forget ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:15, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- Also, I hope you understand my POV, as when someone "seen" and blanking they would assume that it is done by/behalf of the user concerned. Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 11:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- Bit odd, as another logic could be what will the removal be good for? Anyway, Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 11:24, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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You are a mitzvah! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC) |
Thank you, I had to look it up, though (while I had met Dobostorte in Budapest). Listening to Marian Anderson's "Tremble" yesterday was a revelation I wanted to share. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Canvassing
Please do not canvas editors to discussions on infoboxes as you did here and here, or you will be topic banned from infobox discussions. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:57, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Rubbing my eyes further: the question wasn't infobox yes or no (which I would see as an infobox discussion), but whether a composer's compositions belong in it. It came to an RfC, and the result was yes. - I try to avoid infobox discussions, waste of time, a ban wouldn't change much. My post to MyCatIsAChonk was an alert to an edit war (not a discussion) a few days before that article (to which he contributed) went to the Main page, and said "watch", - not "take part". My post to Barkeep49 was one in a long series of questions trying to understand where the problem is, and how to be understood. Both users expressed satisfaction with the outcome, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:08, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish Frankly, this warning is ridiculous and it's certainly not in good faith. Nemov (talk) 21:06, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Nemov, this is serious AE stuff. - I've been there before, ScottishFinnishRadish. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- There's a few things to address here. First, an infobox discussion isn't solely a discussion about if an infobox should be included in an article. Discussions about how to implement an infobox are also infobox discussions. This is similar to a discussion about pizza could be a discussion about if people want to eat pizza, or what type of pizza they would like to eat. Also, there was no edit war, Nikkimaria had reverted the edit you made, and you had already started a discussion. A single revert is not an edit war, but reaching out to someone to ask them to watch an article, even if it was just after a revert without discussion, is canvassing. Even moreso when there is an active discussion on the talk page. Saying "watch" rather than "make an edit supporting me" doesn't provide immunity from canvassing rules. Lastly, the outcome of a discussion also has no bearing on if you violated the canvassing guideline. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Please look a bit deeper into the edit history
of the article(Sorry, it is too late, and my memory: the following was Vivaldi.) Yes, Nikkimaria reverted only once, but there were four reverts. - Also: I wrote to many people that day, - canvassing (for me at least) would have meant telling all about this. But no, MyCatIsAChonk, because of the upcoming TFA appearance of Appalachian Spring. That was an alert, and if reaching out to someone to be watchful is canvassing we really don't understand the word the same way. A few days later, and happier, I asked many people how they liked the compromise? Barkeep49, for example, in the same thread as what you linked. - It's past midnight where I live, and it's a funeral day for me, - please excuse me and put things in perspective. For example achieve more compromise. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Please look a bit deeper into the edit history
- @ScottishFinnishRadish Frankly, this warning is ridiculous and it's certainly not in good faith. Nemov (talk) 21:06, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104
The article Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 for comments about the article, and Talk:Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MyCatIsAChonk -- MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 11:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Michael Boder
On 13 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Michael Boder, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 16:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Joe Viera
On 14 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Joe Viera, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Amakuru (talk) 11:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Dieter Rexroth
On 15 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Dieter Rexroth, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 23:30, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Lorenzo Palomo
On 18 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Lorenzo Palomo, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 01:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
"Not dead, but very wet"
Dear Gerda, Thankyou for your several kind and cheerful messages over the past couple of months. In case you are wondering, I have not slipped off this mortal coil, at least not yet, but have for various reasons given myself a rest from wp. For one thing I am terribly busy with my supercentenarian Mum whose daily needs for attention are many - for another, I have a progressing series of ailments of my own, including Parkinson's, which keep me feeling fairly grotty - but, most influentially, since my last editing efforts, I have a sense of complete futility at editing here when confronted with the sort of criticisms and condescension which provoked my last long reply on my talk page. I haven't got the stomach to rise to the bait. However I am still here and still watching. Eebahgum (talk) 08:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, and no, I grant every friend long silences ;) - best wishes for you and your mother! Please keep reading - I provide my daily stories thinking of people like you. I was in the performance mentioned today (with trailer), - in 2018 DYK made that possible, but 2024 is a different troupe. I carry my load of condescension (see above) but it doesn't keep me from proclaiming the miracle that music is. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
You've got mail
This is indeed not a template, but yes I did email you using old-technology electronic email, like in the good old days! Cheers DBaK (talk) 20:51, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you and enjoyed!! - I discovered a video on William Waterhouse (at the bottom of his article) that you might also like. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Andrew Davis (conductor)
On 22 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Andrew Davis (conductor), which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 19:28, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
A bowl of strawberries for you!
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Thanks for spreading Wiki love. Although I don't like listening to music for personal reasons, I will definitely appreciate your intentions of spreading positive vibes on Wikipedia. Regards Maliner (talk) 21:52, 23 April 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you, I try ;) (forgot to sign yesterday) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
Gerda Arendt, I am always pleased to find these reminders on other editors' talk pages, and now on mine. Thank you for the anniversary. -SusanLesch (talk) 13:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, that's good to know! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red May 2024
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--Lajmmoore (talk 06:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
ITN recognition for Samuel Kummer
On 28 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Samuel Kummer, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. – robertsky (talk) 07:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
On 30 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Oksana Lyniv founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 2016 and conducted them in thirty concerts across ten music festivals in 2022? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
OTD note
Hi Gerda. Good to see that you're helping rotate OTD items. A note about your edit to May 5: when removing an image, remember to put it back into the staging area, so it can be reused in the future. Also comment out the "(pictured)" text—don't delete it—so editors know in the future that there is an image available for that item. Don't worry, I've made the changes already. Also note this discussion at ERRORS about the image's display text (you had left "A depiction of the Battle of the Wilderness"). Thanks.—Bagumba (talk) 11:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Peter Demetz
On 6 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Peter Demetz, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 21:32, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Today we should all be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first performance of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Pity we all forgot to mention it on Wikipedia's main page.--Ipigott (talk) 06:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- It's pictured on the Main page, POD, and mentioned on my User page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
FAC mentoring
Hello. I am mentoring for FAC. I've worked hard on the Sarah Geronimo article, and I wanted to be nominated at FAC. Do you mind checking on the article? Also, if there are issues needed to be addressed, please state it here. ScarletViolet (talk • contribs) 13:13, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- I am willing to look but have little time this week. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you
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I didn't see what happened, only that something did. I hope that you can feel reassured that whatever some try to inflict on you, you are valued and welcomed by many. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 21:46, 7 May 2024 (UTC) |
Thank you for caring, but I am not quite sure what you mean. If you refer to erratic posts with edit summaries removed, they don't bother me much. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Ah! I suppose I overthought what they might've been. I'm glad you're unbothered—better that you're untroubled than the opposite, even if it leaves egg on my face. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 06:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Please wash the egg away, - I am troubled by the discussion mentioned in the thread below. - Today, however, is a feast day, look on top, and if you have little time, just listen and be happy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
The Manual of Style is a contentious topic
- connected by me --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
You have recently made edits related to the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy. This is a standard message to inform you that the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy is a designated contentious topic. This message does not imply that there are any issues with your editing. For more information about the contentious topics system, please see Wikipedia:Contentious topics. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:29, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- ScottishFinnishRadish, could you please tell me one edit that seems to show that I am not aware? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- It's a standard notification. You'll notice I gave that notification to every editor involved in the discussion that you asked me to look at. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:44, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- That doesn't explain. The discussion is on Talk:Peter Grimes. My topics there had nothing to do with MoS questions. I wondered why a change from Zurich to Zürich (not by me) wasn't simply accepted, and I wondered why we link to Zürich at all instead of Zürich Opera House. Any explanations and clarifications are welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
why a change from Zurich to Zürich (not by me) wasn't simply accepted
is a discussion related to the MOS. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:56, 8 May 2024 (UTC)- How? Zurich is acceptable, and Zürich is acceptable, and Zürich Opera House is better than both, and Zürcher Stadttheater might be best as the historic name at the time. All could go home and do something worth arguing about. No? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:01, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- That doesn't explain. The discussion is on Talk:Peter Grimes. My topics there had nothing to do with MoS questions. I wondered why a change from Zurich to Zürich (not by me) wasn't simply accepted, and I wondered why we link to Zürich at all instead of Zürich Opera House. Any explanations and clarifications are welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- It's a standard notification. You'll notice I gave that notification to every editor involved in the discussion that you asked me to look at. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:44, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Magdalena Hinterdobler
On 10 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Magdalena Hinterdobler, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a reviewer described the approach of soprano Magdalena Hinterdobler to her role as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge as "bold" and "sassy"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Magdalena Hinterdobler. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Magdalena Hinterdobler), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Nomination of Magdalena Hinterdobler for deletion
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