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Sorry I have not caught up with your messages in the last few days. Very busy. I have looked at online pictures of Bartolini, and I am sure he is the man on the left, not the right. Compare this profile of his nose. The man on the right cannot be Bartolini, because he does not have a straight, Roman nose. I don't think i could get away with replacing the free image with a non-free one, so I have cropped the existing image. I hope that's OK? At least we can identify him, now. Storye book (talk) 09:13, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the research, and I was also busy, too busy to look at the pic closely. - Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. - A meeting of two women - the occasion of the cantata - is pictured in our local church. I was busy travelling, first pics there (Berlin), to be followed tomorrow by Kafka ;) - then Münster, Papenburg, Münster. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:49, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Domanínská done. Sorry I did not see your link until too late. I had chosen that picture because there are a lot of very different pictures of her out there - she was so versatile, acting different characters. I chose the 1970s one, in her performing years. That one seems to show her real character at that age? But if you want me to change it, I can do that. Storye book (talk) 09:23, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, and I love your find! (I only included a link because you had mentioned that it helps at some time.) - 3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021 which was about a woman which you pictured! - It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. Proud to have had 2 women in green in June, and the third nom is in progress. - Could you please look into the Klingenberg nom? (just look, 5 hooks by now, but I don't like the striking - while I don't strike, just explain). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:49, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you ;) - "often" - what is the meaning of that word? how many times? - He directed 3 plays, often ... - Is that often? I'll not protest and find out at ERRORS. - It's tough to talk to people who don't know Schoenberg and Brecht, really. It's culture and generations, I guess. Thank you for the donation of a qpq, - I'll return it some day ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I agree. Re Brecht and Schoenberg, I'm afraid that the Republicans have spent years trying to limit education in the US, and now their young people are growing up knowing very little about the Rest of the World. I think that probably most people outside the US have heard of those two great men, even if they don't know much about them. So DYK is maybe geared mostly to US readers. There is not much we can do about that. All very sad. Storye book (talk) 15:57, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I refuse to get sad over this. - I get sad that a young woman dies. + Mr. Klingenberg, and a tenor and a bass and I forget about qpq. And there's real life. - They should just change the name of DYK which makes one feel it's about knowledge. It isn't - not anymore at least. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, yes, I agree. There should be space on DYK for everyone. But I do think that in some people there is a genuine terror of knowledge of particular subjects. That is not healthy when the terror is used to deny others their place on DYK.
It reminds me of when the Red Guards in China were burning books, and forcing academics to work in the fields. When I visited a Chinese university around 2001, the poetry students told me that they were allowed to study poetry because Mao had been a writer of poetry. But the students had to follow particular rules. They had to say that all poetry, including the most ancient poetry, was about Man and Nature. They were not allowed to say that some poetry might be an allegory of politics or philosophy. Interesting! Storye book (talk) 16:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for having done it. You hopefully understand that I never pinged you to side with me, but to mediate. - Libuše Domanínská, the subject of yesterday's story, would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA and Lando Bartolini went to the Main page. I made my story about his almost unbelievable career, from Luigi in Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968 (with a nod to Liberty) up to Calaf in Turandot in Beijing in 1999 ;) - If I went to DYK we'd probably have to say that he learned electronics before deciding on opera, or that his brother died in car accident ... - 4 July is also the birthday of Brian Boulton who was a pioneer of a concise infobox in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:24, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, of course I understand. But some other people just don't want to understsnd that, because they are looking for conspiracies where there are none. They have said that they are reading this. There is a saying, that people who eavesdrop never hear good of themselves. Hehe. Storye book (talk) 13:08, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I like it! - Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, the bass and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:40, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Taktakishvili done. It's a tiny thumbnail, but the most lifelike that I could find. In the Soviet era they went in for badly-edited and unrealistic photos, and most of the available ones are like that. There's a really beautiful black-and-white drawing of him here, but I'm guessing you want a photo. Storye book (talk) 07:34, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, and I do like the drawing. He is part of today's story, which is a sad story in the end. I didn't change the lead that I found much, but it didn't end in 1988. Some "sources" say that she directed the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia from 1981 to 2005, missing completely that she had to leave the orchestra behind in Germany in 1995, and of the different new one, she was just artistic director, working from abroad. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Plus c'est la même chose. Has it really been gong on that long? Maybe we should stick in an extra hook all about roles, so that N has something to cross out. Storye book (talk) 20:47, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wow. Thank you for the link. She was indeed weightless. Beautiful, both of them. As for the no-hook gambit - worth a try! It would be amusing to see what the reviewers come up with. Storye book (talk) 08:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yesterday I listened in concert to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, with Sabine Meyer: a delight. - Today's story is about Ruth Hesse, with a pic in the article only, sadly (show your mom, - a profile with closed eyes). I found it difficult to point at a YouTube sample, because yes, her signature roles - the Nurse and Brangäne - exist in great full-length operas with great casts, but hard to find her. - Talking of YouTube: today I was pointed at Elijah by a friend who performed in the concert of the Dessoff Choirs in their centenary year, and I'm quite impressed by samples (beginning and No. 32 where I linked it) - enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:40, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The shortest from article creation to Main page (a few hours), and so sad: Sarah Gibson (composer). I meant to ask for a non-free image but now we have this. What do you think of a crop without the distracting bottom, more of the people? ... or is it just not in focus enough? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
