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Mystory today is about an opera singer born OTD in 1870. -Gerda Arendt (talk)08:42, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tout est lumière. --Gerda Arendt (talk)11:19, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

today: a woman in red --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:34, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out my talk: for a great woman's Johannes-Passion (listen!), our music in detail, and three people who recently died and are on the main page (where she isn't). My call for collaboration has the first "no", and the second - for the Easter Oratorio - seems inevitable. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:15, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story is about music that Bach and Picander gave the world 300 years (and 19 days) ago, - listen (on the conductor's birthday) --Gerda Arendt (talk)14:25, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wrotemy story today and then found it's the person's funeral day. - I hated to see DYK forJohannes-Passion (Gubaidulina) today instead of Good Friday, but it seems also right in the context. --Gerda Arendt (talk)17:22, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC,Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to joina discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk)12:25, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My music features Bach Bach Bach today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)13:26, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Bach's cantata was performed 300 years ago, by occasion. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's main page has again memories of three people who died, for two just the name and for the third an image (great!) coupled with a little bit from her life which seems too little for my taste.What do you think? - A friend of mine sang in Verdi'sRequiem atTrinity Church, - you can watchthe lifestream (Verdi about 30 minutes into it). --Gerda Arendt (talk)12:47, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Recommended reading today:Christfried Schmidt,a story about patience. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:13, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

check my talk today for two pics ofMargot Friedländer --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:40, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

one was replaced by a pic ofMay Abrahamse (with uncertain licensing), andVakhtang Machavariani isnominated --Gerda Arendt (talk)13:42, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mendelssohn'sItalian symphony was premiered on 13 May, I know this so well because on this day my local classical station did not communicate well enough internally, and so the afternoon show ended by noting this fact and playing the complete Italian symphony, and after the NPR news, the evening show began by noting this fact and playing the complete Italian symphony. I haven't done the whole "listen to a long piece and then listen to it immediately again" since studying for general exams in grad school! --Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert(talk)21:07, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ha ha! I'm going to guess they did not know the premiere date of Satie's Vexations. (One would hope.)Antandrus(talk)21:40, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

listen toMachavariani'sMariupol --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:36, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

musings on15 May --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:14, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

birthday ofErik Satie --Gerda Arendt (talk)17:50, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

all Verdi today: tenorLuigi Alva and the premiere OTD of hisRequiem, see my talk - remember that early in the thread there was a link to a performance? --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:33, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A first:two stories about two people who worked together and died the same day --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:09, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, born 100 years ago,described by Alan Blyth --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:50, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is so much music - lieder by Schubert, songs by Samuel Barber, and on and on - which, when I listen in my head, comes up in the voice of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He seemed to own the repertory in a way no one else ever did, at least in modern times.Antandrus(talk)21:23, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree! - Reasons to look at Bach today (and listen): it's a recent GA (not by me), he assumed the position of ThomaskantorOTD in 1723, he's upfor PR, and several of his cantatas for GA, and hisEaster Oratorio for FAC --Gerda Arendt (talk)11:32, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Musing thatUser:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior could perhaps use something like "An editor who is losing a dispute will often start accusing their opponents of bullying, because clearly if everyone else disagrees with them, it's because they enjoy picking on poor, innocent editors like them".The Bushranger_{One ping only}21:27, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good idea. Indeed "bullying" is one of those words which, when used on Wikipedia, often applies best to the one using the word. We could probably compile a list of these. (Somehow I managed to miss this when you posted it.)Antandrus(talk)21:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, good to stumble upon a long time not seen oldtimer :-) I am writing up a bio ofNachum Shternheim and while combing Wikipedia for the name, I run into an archiveWikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 March 19 where you mentioned Shternheim. I am a lazy writer and usually I am content with AfD-survivable bio stubs, so I am wondering whether you know something to add. --Altenmann>talk22:39, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HiAltenmann - wonderful to see you here, seems like a lifetime ago. I looked through my library but did not come up with much for Shternheim. The book by Issachar Fater:Yidishe muzik in polyn tsvishn bayde velt-milkhomes [Jewish music in Poland between the two World Wars] (Tel-Aviv, 1970) might be a useful source, if you read Yiddish or Polish (I think he wrote it in Yiddish first, later translating to Polish) - oh heck, Google translate works wonders in these strange times. The currentNew Grove does not have a dedicated article but mentions him in a necrology of musicians lost in the Holocaust. All the best, and good luck!Antandrus(talk)01:20, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Theplaces: a day full of great discoveries, culminating inOliwa Cathedral which was called a must-see byGraham Waterhouse who played the organ once. Dinner right next to the Abbot's Palace, wherePenderecki had also been a guest.

Thestory:Bazon Brock spoke at an exhibition atKolumba to honourAnna and Bernhard Blume on her 80th birthday.[1] Did you know "An Anna Blume"? --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:27, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I haveEaster Oratorio on the main page, but of course told the story, which is admittedly complex,on Easter Sunday for the music's 300th anniversary. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:33, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

sang today --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:56, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died + I havea "defiant" cantata up for GA --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:33, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

too many died, seemy story and listen toComfort ye (sung in German) --Gerda Arendt (talk)14:01, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today look atthe autograph of Beethoven's last piano sonata and listen to a pianist who wanted to serve the compositions most of all --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:57, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I love that piece (who doesn't, right?) - for two hundred years composers have been trying to imitate late Beethoven and failing, but finding other things - this was one of so many works in those years that opened a door others never knew was even there.Antandrus(talk)22:11, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I love that piece. Heard last year withIgor Levit (see music). --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:51, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At the same place, I'll heartoday's topic, - you can listen before I do because it was streamed yesterday and I go today (because I like Ravel's piano piano concerto) --Gerda Arendt (talk)13:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusuallya great writer of novels,music with light anda place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:08, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, you would note that this is not the first time this has been discussed. None of the previous discussions were open as long or received as much participation. The key issue falls toWP:THE and the second of the conditions given. While both sides invoke and argue their position based on that guidance, this does notipso facto mean that there is strength to those arguments. BothWP:P&G andWP:5P tell us that it is thespirit of P&G which is paramount. There are certainly arguments made that go to identifying thespirit of this guidance and, if cogently made would carry substantially more weight than those that don't. This RM has in essence become an RfC in pretty much all but name on determining thespirit of the second condition in the context of a particular and very pertinent example. Identifying how thespirit applies to this particular example would go a long way to resolving how thespirit applies in other cases. It would become a counter-point toThe Crown/Crown where disambiguationis reasonably an issue.

Assessing the arguments made in respect to thespirit (what is thespirit) and where thespirit lies is certainly within the remit of the closer. To be clear, this is not asking the closer to apply their own interpretation of this. It would go deeper thanboth sides invokeWP:THE and make arguments that [overtly appear] to be reasonable. We could have a community discussion to address the guidance but I would have no doubt that it would closely mirror this discussion - using the same examples and making the same arguments. Even if a more focused examination of this discussion was unable to extract a consensus on thespirit of the guidance, a more focused closing comment would be useful in identifying the issues relating to the guidance. That in itself would be a benefit to the community. As a long-term editor and administrator, I would think you eminently qualified for this. Without addressing the broader issue, this is unlikely to be the last time this is bought up. If thereis ambiguity as to where thespirit of the guidance lies, this is arguably worese than having no guidance at all.Cinderella157 (talk)04:26, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It was a no-consensus close - and as they go, rather a canonical case, as I see it. I thought about writing more in the closing comment but decided against it, because that gets into interpretation - thespirit - of a guideline that I see as ambiguous, and this case, "Holocaust" versus "The Holocaust", seems to me to be in the gray area of interpretation. You may see it differently. Both "sides" did in fact make cogent and persuasive arguments. I couldn't close it as anything but "no consensus" in good conscience. I think the right place for further discussion is on the talk page of the guideline itself,WP:THE. - Not that it matters, but I'd been following the discussion from the beginning, and my own opinion shifted from one position to the other during the debate, but I still don't feel particularly strongly either way. And yes I'm aware of previous discussions: the article has been on my watchlist for at least twenty years now.Antandrus(talk)23:00, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also disagree with this reading of consensus. The "oppose" side did not cite asingle PAG that not merelyallows, butrecommends, the use of "the", and irrelevant arguments should have been discarded. I am making this formal request to amend your close before I send this toWP:MR per its prerequisites.InfiniteNexus (talk)11:36, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Antandrus: Requesting a response so we can proceed accordingly.InfiniteNexus (talk)12:35, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. It was a no-consensus close. The "oppose" side also citedWP:THE. "The Holocaust" has a different meaning from "holocaust". I can not, in good conscience, call this anything other than a no-consensus close. People were starting to dig in, and no one was changing their mind, i.e. no one on either side was persuaded by the arguments of the other. That is unfortunate, but it does happen. After going through the entire discussion I decided I agreed withUser:Jpgordon's final comment.Antandrus(talk)14:34, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Antandrus: Thanks for the response. However, it was a logically fallacious interpretation ofWP:THE because the guideline does not recommend the use of "the" in this case, only permits its usage (assuming that you found the opposers' argument that "Holocaust" has a different meaning than "The Holocaust" to be convincing). Thus, they had no policy-based argument that expressly prohibits omitting "the"nor expressly recommends including "the". I understand that there were many "oppose" !votes, but many people making the same invalid argument does not make it any stronger (or more true), or consensus any less clear. I strongly urge you to reconsider, but if not, I will proceed with MR.InfiniteNexus (talk)14:58, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for aMove review ofThe Holocaust. Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review.InfiniteNexus (talk)14:50, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the time and effort you put in to this seemingly endless matter.--agr (talk)16:08, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Kafka's birthday again, 12 years after the one with the Google doodle. I admire the flowers for blooming although it looks dry. It took a week to getthe composer of Mission: Impossible to the main page. Theconcert I listened to was remarkable, pic added to the performer. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:44, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I played some of his "serious" music a while back - when I was still an undergraduate. It was quite good, and if I remember correctly some of it was even in 5/4. The mission we were assigned, getting everyone to play it in tune, turned out to be impossible.Antandrus(talk)19:19, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting! - Check out my talk, - if you have little time, listen toGilda Cruz-Romo in the final scene of Aida, If you have more read her article, and if you have still more check outmy music, some sung with me in choir, some played by friends, all heard with friends. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:43, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nicolai Gedda would have been 100 today. If you have little time, justlisten to his flower song. If you have more read aboutHelena Tattermuschová, the cunning little vixen. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:26, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today you canlisten to what the DYK says. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:08, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you can listen toyesterday's concert ofall Brahms. --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:01, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today is Bastille Day, commemorated by a DYK as my "story" and a visit to the Bastille Opera in "music". I like the interview coming with the story, on the day before the big event, but for pomp and circumstance, the affair with 600 singing children and orchestra, and the singer dressed in the national flag, was also captured on videos, much slower. (forgot to sign then)

I remember a 2016 TFA intoday's story, in memory of 16 July 1916. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:30, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah thank you - enjoying that now. I didn't know that piece (Reger wrote a lot of music!) And just a couple weeks laterGeorge Butterworth was killed at the First Battle of the Somme. - I had family there, on both sides.Antandrus(talk)20:44, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for sharing. - I remember that it was hard to keep the voice in control when the quote of the chorale came. We did the first performance of the organ arrangement. I founda piano version on youtube today. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:42, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out places for a great smile, - he had just stepped in to play Chopin'sPiano Concerto No. 2, successfully! --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:57, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning,RD andDYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:42, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three of "my" recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, onemy story today,Gary Karr, and I loved to find his breakthrough concert in 1962 as a video. In my music today I match it with 9 other double bassists, 7 conducted by a person who's birthday is today - coincidence ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:44, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Béatrice Uria-Monzon andher story,Julia Hagen and herno story --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:55, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OnBach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, andmy story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk)09:55, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jahrhundertringremembered, with the picture of a woman who can't believe what she has to see --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:01, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Antandrus,

I appreciate all your contributions to the getting started page. I'm a new Wikipedia contributor and I'm joining the Developing Countries WikiContest.

I would like to write most of my profile page in my native language, and I was wondering if there's a way to write two About Me pages, both in English and my language, without having to rely on automated translation tools, and if there's a toggle button that I can add to switch between both.

Again, thank you for welcoming everyone to write in Wikipedia.Dejazzhands (talk)03:55, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, welcome! - I can think of a couple easy ways. You could put both versions on the same page, for example the version in your native language above, and in English below - or have the version in your language with a like to a subpage like this:My profile in English - with the link prominent and right at the top. Happy editing,Antandrus(talk)04:17, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your response!Dejazzhands (talk)04:29, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Can I interest you inthe art ofHerbert Brandl? --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:18, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thelast three stories were Bach'sMass in B minor (because I heard it), and two women. - What do you think aboutthis nom? --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:04, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice! Need to listen to it. You can usethis as a reference for the "detention center" line perhaps (from the article onEstadio_Nacional_Julio_Martínez_Prádanos).Antandrus(talk)21:00, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I just fund a different one, but feel free to add this as well. Bedtime for me ;) More detail about Greek performances etc another day. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:23, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

today would beHarry Kupfer's90th birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:13, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

pics of the feast of theMass in B minor --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:58, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story mentions four singers which I all heard, soprano (whose birthday would have been today) and tenor were soloists with my choir in Hannover, and alto and tenor (married, singers ofNDR Chor) were the soloists in the Verdi Requiem of my choir in Idstein, in 2010. Enjoy listening to soprano in a Telemann aria, and also pics of a hike on a hot day above Lorch. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:39, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story - short version: ten years ago we had a DYK about a soprano who sang in concerts with me in the choir, - longer: I foundtoday a youtube ofan aria she sang with us then, recorded the same year, - if you still have time: our performances were the weekend before the Iraq war ultimatum, and we sangDona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. --Gerda Arendt (talk)14:00, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading intoday's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:39, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On top of my talk: birthday ofa great violinist and Requiem for a great friend. We sang Paradisi gloria from theStabat Mater in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:42, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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My story today, pictured on the main page, is about the best concert I sang (on 1 September 2019), and references for the article were collectedby Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:52, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. Improvements to his article welcome! --Gerda Arendt (talk)14:41, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today another giant's music:Canto General. Listen if you like it really big and emotional, with the composer as the conductor, in Chile, after years of suppression. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:55, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A soprano pictured on DYK, a soprano and a composer and a bassoonist on RD, and a composer with the pic of the day:a good day for classical music! --Gerda Arendt (talk)14:19, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoya DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. --Gerda Arendt (talk)08:55, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As you will know,Arvo Pärt is 90 today. Did you know that it tool me some trouble to get him to the main page?Listen! --Gerda Arendt (talk)12:39, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk)11:40, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can I interest you inmy 100th biography to the Main page in 2025,Siegmund Nimsgern? --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:21, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John Rutter 80 today! Isang his major choral works with four choirs, and many of his uplifting anthems,DYK? I watched him explain hisMagnificat in person in 1998, and nowsee it on Youtube: he wore the same outfit. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:21, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mystory today is aboutthe principal violin of the Concentus Musicus; she would have been 95 OTD. I felt connected when the second oboist ofour recent concert, of Haydn'sStabat Mater, said that he built an English horn for his performance of the work with the Concentus Musicus. - Concert weekend pictured in "places". --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:43, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I could have told many stories, - St. Michael's Day (The Company of Heaven) and the anniversary of our performance of theMass in B minor in 2013. Ipicked the composition and its author that was on DYK in the morning, and you can listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:01, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Mystory today is about a woman and her husband who played Bach'sSonatina for us (Rheingau Musik Festival, long ago)on an upright piano, and it made me cry, and I still remember. --Gerda Arendt (talk)10:32, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Carl Nielsen (FA by four colleagues, not me) is remembered on the main page! Mystory on the Germany National holiday is a song callingto trust the new ways, written shortly before the events leading to reunification. I sawa lovely Mozart opera production yesterday, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:55, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A goodstory for a Sunday:Martin Neary conducting Purcell. --Gerda Arendt (talk)10:11, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and onefor Monday, about an opera singer as a thinking person, DYK? - see also video. The nomination wasn't by me, which probably helped. I didn't see her, but the Carmen production at the Bastille Opéra that she was in last. --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:21, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday,Margaret Medlyn! (I found the article - not by me - when searching for someone whose birthday is today.) - I took acat pic, presented by Rosiestep today. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:39, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 50th birthday, Alain Altinoglu!) - I let the video begin with a closeup of the octobass ;)Gerda Arendt (talk)18:14, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am proud to have brought two performing women to the main page. Sadly, death kept both from performing more, one sooner the other much later. If you have little time just listen to the one who died young and see if it touches you (intoday's story, - I don't want to sprinkle youtube links outside my user pages). I worked onan interesting bio yesterday, and while today's video is serious, I found one for children for him, - well, serious also. Keep watching. - Latest pics from a day to the opera in Frankfurt, and afterwards (because train service is only once an hour) a lovely stroll along the Main river with illumination and the moon reflected. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:45, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am sad that I had to bringtwo more people there. At least the video inmy story is cute, made for children. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:28, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

marked to be sung "Happily" --Gerda Arendt (talk)12:08, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can I interest you in theDouble Concerto by Brahms, a piece I heard twice this year - see music. -Gerda Arendt (talk)18:30, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My latest:Roberta Alexander, -listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:22, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can't believe thatToshio Hosokawa is 70 already.Gerda Arendt (talk)19:58, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TodaySequenza III onLuciano Berio's centenary. You can listen with the score or to the first performer,Cathy Berberian (link in the work's article), - I couldn't decide ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:53, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

299 years ago,a Bach cantata was first performed --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:02, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

300 years ago: another one,Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79, on the occasion for which it was written, Reformation Day - it'snot only Halloween today. You are invited to the peer reviews foranother candidate. --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:57, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Today I remember a singer who impressed me on stage. - Repeating: you are invited toa peer review after FAC, - in a poll, you could simply mark yes or no for the four open questions. It's an experiment. The piece has its 300th anniversary on Christmas Day, and should be as good as possible by then. --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:57, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

today in memory of a friend who would have been 110, singing Brahms conducted by his son. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:13, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have three biographies on the main page today, missa fourth one, nominated a fifth, that means little time for other matters. If you have ten minutes, you might take a look at the four questions open from my last FAC (see above), and if you have only five minutes, question 3 about a book source would interest me most. My places now includeLa Scala, - see music, Verdi three times, and twice inmy story! --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:21, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OnSt. Cecilia's Day - patron saint of music - I remembera composition by Benjamin Britten, and havea woman on the main page who illustrated songs, with a sense of humour. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:27, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Look,today's image, -she "portrayed" herself with her husband at the end of the table, - would have been good for Thanksgiving ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:47, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mystory today is a Bach cantata, mentioned withthe Christmas cantata which is up for FAC again, and the conductor of the video is mentioned by name in movement 1 of the Christmas cantata. Today's ecumenical service was dominated by brass sound, - I placed a pic on top ofthe church's article. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:43, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Organists: I went to see thechurch in Paris whereGuy Morançon worked, quite a place, and wishHappy birthday to Gabriel Dessauer, - enjoy music he played,Dance Toccata, by another Paris organist. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:34, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you likedMorançon's music and playing,listen to his Mendelssohn on a great instrument, illustrated with historic images. --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:51, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I woke up toa Bach cantata, GA by an editor's first review, and it was the first time that I was involved (a bit) ina pictured ITN blurb. More pics of buildings by himon my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:35, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I broughtWozzeck tothe main page, not by me but I noticed the quality and the centenary. Enjoy plenty of music, three events in about 24 hours including 4 Bach cantatas and his Magnificat with the Christmas interpolations. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:26, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's 1715 Advent Bach cantata translates to "Prepare the ways", -listen ;) - "places" have new pics from Copenhagen". --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:21, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born:happy new year! --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:28, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

HiGerda, and happy new year to you too! Let's hope it's a good one, and do our parts to make it so. :) I appreciate all the work you have done on Wikipedia all these years.Antandrus(talk)19:07, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and let's hope. Sadly, besides Bach, I have right now five articles to improve of people who recently died, two of them far too soon, and one of them I knew (met once after a concert, not more, but then enough to begin his article). Bach music can be a consolation. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:13, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

... inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:01, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Today you can watch the 2010 premiere of a violin sonata with thecomposer also the pianist. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:17, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mozartmusic for today! --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:44, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

20 January is the 100th birthday ofDavid Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantataMeine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:50, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Look forWind of Change in music, and for vacation in places. The story is abouta unique Bach cantata that relates toa current DYK nom. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:27, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Tamás Vásáry today, who began his career with a Mozart concerto at age 8. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:10, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Giants today, RDHelmuth Rilling and OTDFriedrich Cerha 100 --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:49, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]