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2024 talk · 2024 introduction: Anniversary of Bach's chorale cantatas · music · recent deaths · good articles · did you know?
my 2024 cards · other 2024 cards
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my story today:
Libuše Domanínská,
a soprano of Prague's National Theatre,
performed in all operas by
Leoš Janáček
(3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928),
and a recording she made
as his Jenůfa
made his works better known
beyond their home country.
(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)
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I made two cards for the transition from 2023to2024:
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.
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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).
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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)[reply] |
Make the music and keep up the good work! Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 15:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply] |
On5 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)[reply]
The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel,
listing 420 compositions,
was introduced
at a festival
celebrating Abel's tercentenary
inKöthen.
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Thank you, PFHLai, for the first of the year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For more detail see Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:30, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply] |
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)[reply]
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The DYK Barnstar | |
My small thanks for the large amount of work you do here, Rjjiii (talk) 09:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply] |
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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)[reply] |
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)[reply]
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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)[reply] |
On12 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply] |
Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 00:02, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
On20 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 styleinBerlin-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)[reply]
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)[reply]
—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On25 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)[reply]
Birthday of Mozart and our conductor:
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On7 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
On20 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)[reply]
My story was different, mentioning the Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
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)[reply]
Listen to my next subject singing Tchaikovsky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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For all the preciousness you bring into this world. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 21:46, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply] |
is a rare birthday:
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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)[reply]
On23 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)[reply]
On26 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Any ideas for Easter hooks? Lightburst (talk) 23:20, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 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.
look and listen · look forward
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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,
achorale 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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Happy Easter to a fine editor! May you have a kind and joyful Paschaltide! ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:19, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply] |
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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)[reply]
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
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)[reply] |
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)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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You are a mitzvah!7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply] |
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply] |
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
On30 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.
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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)[reply]
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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)[reply] |
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
why a change from Zurich to Zürich (not by me) wasn't simply acceptedis a discussion related to the MOS. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:56, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On10 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).
— Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On22 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Liviu Holender, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that baritone Liviu Holender chose lieder by five composers whose music was banned by the Nazis—Schreker, Zemlinsky, Mahler, Korngold and Schönberg—for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Liviu Holender. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Liviu Holender), 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.
RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Baritone
Liviu Holender
chose lieder by five composers
whose music was banned by the Nazis
—Schreker, Zemlinsky,
Mahler, Korngold and Schönberg—
for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt.
watch one
Verdi: Messa da Requiem 22 May 1874
This was the story. I am happy that all six composers mentioned, even the unlinked Verdi, received views around 1k or higher. I believe that it is a myth that our audience isn't interested in such things. Thanks to Mary Mark Ockerbloom who bravely approved the hook.
As it happens, today's story is about singing in defiance ;) - look and listen! - Ten years ago, I worded the hook that appeared OTD, and I quoted from the hymn - together with a pointer to Kafka - already in my response to the 2013 arbitration decision, in the same mood of singing in defiance. I still stand and sing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello Gerda Arendt:
WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in June 2024!
Running from June 1 to 30, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Going Back in Time! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 20 centuries by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.
We hope to see you there!
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:18, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]On 25 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Willi Brokmeier, 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. Ad Orientem (talk) 19:17, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On26 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St. Trinitatis, Wolfenbüttel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Lutheran St. TrinitatisinWolfenbüttel, consecrated in 1719, is a Baroque church with a facade recalling that of a palace? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trinitatiskirche, Wolfenbüttel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, St. Trinitatis, Wolfenbüttel), 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.
Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On 29 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Rolf-Ernst Breuer, 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. Schwede66 07:08, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On30 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Samuel Kummer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach, Brahms, and himself? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Kummer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Samuel Kummer).
RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That hook was short for my idea:
Samuel Kummer
chose for his first recital
as the organist of the restored
Frauenkirche in Dresden
music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger,
Louis Vierne, and himself.
I had no time to fight the abbreviated version which reads as if he was narrow-minded (only three composers, and all of them German), as if he only followed mainstream, and as if he saw himself among the prominent Bs (Bach Beethoven Brahms). Sad. On my screen, the word "himself" sat alone in an otherwise empty line. Sad. Please watch him playing. If you have more time read about Reger and Vierne. If you have even more time, read the Main page which had another TFA by Vami (that I suggested), two who recently died and Bach's cantata for his first service as Thomaskantor, with him pictured. If you have still more time, see Music, for today's service and procession songs and a fascinating opera. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Today's TFA is Ludwigsburg Palace, written by Vami_IV. I miss lines such as (from the FAC)
The Ludwigsburg Festival begins there today, and looking for a sample, I found the opening concert of 2022, for peace, Oksana Lyniv from Ukraine conducting Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, with pianist Iddo Bar-Shai from Israel, and Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Better than words. Roses of missing. Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On 2 June 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hugues Gall, 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) 12:14, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article Magdalena Hinterdobler you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Magdalena Hinterdobler for comments about the article, and Talk:Magdalena Hinterdobler/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) 21:04, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On5 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Peter Demetz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Peter Demetz, who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Demetz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Peter Demetz), 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, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On 5 June 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alexander Lang, 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. Schwede66 20:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And that's all I've got time for right now. Schwede66 20:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On 10 June 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jürgen Moltmann, 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. Schwede66 10:03, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Gerda, I was about to reply to your June music post on my talk page. But when I view my page, I can't find it anywhere on it! Not sure what's going on here. :o Acalamari 04:01, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano) for comments about the article, and Talk:Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)/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 750h+ -- 750h+ (talk) 12:03, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Gerda, you seem to have a disturbed "friend", so I've semiprotected this page and User:Gerda Arendt/blushing for 24 hours. Please let me know if you'd like the protection removed, or extended. Bishonen | tålk 09:44, 16 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]
I get that it goes against good wiki politics to criticize but today there are many messages on talk pages from you saying: "Did you know that after the RfC for Joyce (in which I didn't take part), I thought these infobox wars were over?" which seems to neglect this comment. (Of course the infobox isn't mentioned at all (wisely) in some case, i.e here). Why is the discussion (which was unpleasant, to say the least) being brought before so many people? It's a page you've apparently not edited (though I didn't look through the 2000+ editor so maybe I'm wrong). What does it achieve to use the word "war" about something as trivial as an infobox on a random article on a website? 99.9% of the time I sit on my hands to keep my fingers away from the keyboard. Today I snapped. Victoria (tk) 16:43, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure I've ever acknowledged your "Precious Anniversary" notes in my talk page over the years, but thank you for them. I haven't been quite as active around here now as I was in the past, but I have managed to create a few articles... most recently for the latest J. K. Rowling Cormoran Strike novel, The Running Grave. *Dan T.* (talk) 18:24, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're truly a gem, wow! The warmth and generosity you bring to Wikipedia oozes through every interaction I see you're involved, even though we haven't spoken directly. Your encouraging words to others are a beacon that guides and inspires me in this project. Your presence here is a lifeline, truly. Keep shining your light – it's making a difference. Warmest regards, Vanderwaalforces (talk) 20:11, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On 18 June 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Éric Tappy, 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, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]