User Talk: Narky Blert

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March thanks

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Thank you for coming to my talk! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:45, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded vacation pics (from back home), at least the first day, - and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:01, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
: {{ping|Gerda Arendt}} - "inspired by Claude Debussy's compositions for clarinet" - other than orchestral use, isn't there only the ''Première rhapsodie ↗''? Narky Blert (talk) 20:38, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
:: I don't know. Grimes2 wrote that, and we just lost him, it seems. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
:: Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

April

I like to see Appalachian Spring ↗ on the Main page today (not by me, just interested and reviewed), and I also made it my story. - How do you like the statue (see places)? I was undecided so show three versions ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:14, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

The statue is of Hildegard of Bingen ↗, and as it happens, her Physica ↗ is on the Main page today, and Marian Anderson ↗ as my top story (by NBC, 1939), and below (on my talk) three people with raised arms, - and the place is the cherry blossom in Frauenstein --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:48, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

plum tree blossom for Kalevi Kiviniemi in the snow - see my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:57, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

today a sad task - memory of Andrew Davis ↗ - turned into entertainment (yt at the bottom of his article, actually both) -- the latest pictures capture extreme weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Oak Grove, Louisiana ↗

Hi there. I see you were the last to edit here ↗, so maybe you can help, because disambiguation pages make me dizzy.

The article Oak Grove, Louisiana ↗ is the only "Oak Grove" in the state with a Wikipedia article. However, the meat of the article is located at Oak Grove, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana ↗.

There was also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oak Grove, Louisiana ↗.

(As an aside, Oak Grove, Louisiana ↗ was created by a notorious sock I've been hunting for years)

I think the entire article should be moved back to "Oak Grove, Louisiana".

What do you think? Cheers! Magnolia677 (talk) 11:09, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
:I see you changed the DAB page, but this is still the only "Oak Grove" in Louisiana. The parish name is unnecessary, no? Magnolia677 (talk) 11:00, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
::{{ping|Magnolia677}} Thanks for dropping by. I have a health issue which wrecks my ability to concentrate. The wholly-unlinked entry on the DAB page needs to go. As for your main point, I agree with you - the WP:PTOPIC ↗ for {{-r|Oak Grove, Louisiana}} is Oak Grove, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana ↗. I suggest a WP:RM#Uncontroversial technical requests ↗. Link this discussion. I have the technical permissions to make the necessary moves but lack the stamina. Best, Narky Blert (talk) 14:16, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
:::I am so sorry to hear that. I noticed that you had been less active than when we collaborated so successfully but I had hoped it was by choice. I hope that ill health is not affecting your offline life too badly and I wish you all the best. Certes (talk) 15:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
::::TY for your kind words. Narky Blert (talk) 20:00, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
:::::Thank you so much for your advice with this. I hope your health issues improve soon and you're back to 100 percent. Cheers! Magnolia677 (talk) 09:54, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Water motorsports at the Summer Olympics (disambiguation) ↗

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Nomination of :Manav_Bhinder ↗ for deletion

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May music

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Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Philadelphia subway (disambiguation) ↗

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A barnstar 4 U!

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I also have a request. I usually make a criteria for every new barnstar made, but I can't comprehend the ideal-purpose of the WikiProject to come up with one. Can you develop a criteria to be assign for this barnstar? Thank you. Jerium (talk) 21:15, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Jerium}} Thank you! This is a rare honour.
:A health scare are the end of 2021 pretty much wrecked my ability to concentrate, and I have been almost inactive on WP since then. Others who deserve this award include (but are not limited to) my colleagues {{u|Certes}} and {{u|GoingBatty}}, without whom I wouldn't have thought of setting up WP:BPAT ↗.
:Inclusion criterion? I suggest nomination by active members. Us WP:WIKIGNOME ↗S don't seek recognition, and can be rather embarrassed by it. Narky Blert (talk) 21:59, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
::I'm glad you like the gesture. I know there are others who deserve this also, but you know more of them than me. Perhaps you can express such appreciation to them. Anyways, thanks for your past and future efforts, happy editing & cheers! Jerium (talk) 22:27, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
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September music

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Thank you for pointing at the soprano! - Recommended reading today: Frye Fire ↗, by sadly missed Vami_IV. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:43, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Today is Schoenberg's 150th birthday! On display, portrayed by Egon Schiele ↗, with music from Moses und Aron ↗, and with two DYK hooks, one from 2010 and another from 2014; the latter, about his 40th birthday, appeared on his 140th birthday, which made me happy then and now again. - See ''places'' for a stunning sunrise, on the day Bruckner ↗'s 200th birthday was celebrated (just a few days late). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Shallow-water blackout (disambiguation) ↗

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January music

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Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had). My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:30, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:Happy New Tear to you also! My Xmas present to a couple of guys who run a very good popular music reaction channel and who introduce me to lots of things I didn't know was the opening chorus of a work first performed in 1734 and not again until 1857. There's an excellent performance on YT by Voces8 ↗. I also gave it to a friend who has a pop and popular classical background, who has a very good ear indeed - he wasn't phased by Webern's Op 28 string quartet. I also gave him "Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen", and when I told him that we'd both sung the tune in the minor (we both have CofE ↗ upbringing) he got it at once. Narky Blert (talk) 14:14, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:: 1734 sounds like BWV 248 but that's not exactly what I'd expect from Voces8, - I used them for my story on Christmas Eve, - did you see? Today a violinist from Turkey, Ayla Erduran ↗, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:36, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
:::1734 was also the year of "Jauchzet, frohlokket!"
:::My father and I didn't agree on everything, but one thing we always agreed on was Schubert. The variation movement from ''The Trout'' was played at his funeral. We used to chuckle about that - trout only like clear water, and if you muddy the water you won't see the fish again that day. Narky Blert (talk) 23:58, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
:::: I was lazy and wrote BWV 248 ↗ instead of Jauchzet, frohlocket ↗ and three other parts first performed in 1734 (the other two in 1735), and three of those in 1734 with an Eingangschor. I didn't know until we sang it last year that the closing chorale of the Ascension Oratorio ↗ is even more stunning than "Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen", with independent expressive vocal lines like in "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß ↗" (which was originally composed for the St John Passion ↗). The trout quintet was the third piece of which my mother bought a record, and then my brother became a double bassist ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:52, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
:::: Today, pictured on the Main page ↗, Tosca ↗, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:32, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
:::: Today, between many who just died, Tobias Kratzer ↗ on his 45th birthday who was good for an unusual DYK mentioning a Verdi opera in 2018, - you can see his work in the trailer of another one that I saw, and my talk page has a third (but by a different director). 2025 pics, finally. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

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hi, narky thanks to you. Lovenpops (talk) 16:55, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

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March music

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Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 ↗! - We sang ↗ works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel ↗, Johann Christoph Bach ↗, Kuhnau ↗/Bach ↗, Gounod ↗ and Rheinberger ↗! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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:{{ping|GRALISTAIR}} I was a frequent visitor there (from DF&VL in Coventry) 1976-79, working mainly at the viscose dope end of the textile yarn side; including on the SAICCOR circuit, if you remember that. I was in and out of hospital in summer 1979, and missed the closure; which I was very sorry to learn of, because there were some excellent people there. It was unlikely to have survived much longer even without the disappearance of the tyreyarn market - during the 1980s, four of our five remaining UK viscose plants were closed. Feel free to amail me if you would care to reminisce. Narky Blert (talk) 07:28, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

April music

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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) 19:48, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

The next cantata made it to the main page, - listen ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

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 join a discussion ↗ about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:26, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

My music features Bach Bach Bach today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

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May music

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reasons to look at Bach (and listen): it's a recent GA (not by me), he assumed the position of Thomaskantor OTD in 1723, he's up for PR ↗, and several of his cantatas for GA, and his Easter Oratorio ↗ for FAC --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:24, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Gerda Arendt}} As an aside, Radio 3 presenter Donald Macleod ↗ once described the Bach family (so many of whom were called Johann) as "baptismally challenged". Narky Blert (talk) 17:11, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

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June music

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Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

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June 2025

{{{icon|25px|alt=Information icon ↗}}} Hello! I'm TonySt. I just wanted to let you know that in your recent edit at WP:ANI ↗, you appeared to have added incorrect information -- specifically when you wrote {{tq|the moon is made of green cheese}}. In fact, it's well known that the moon is ''actually'' made of blue cheese ↗ (see WP:BLUE ↗). Thank you! ;) —<span style="border:1px solid #6ED;border-radius:30% 0;font-weight:bold;background:linear-gradient(270deg,#96C, #6ED);color:#fff;padding:2px 5px">tony</span> 18:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|TonySt}} I want an RS for your assertion, not a WP:ESSAY ↗! Narky Blert (talk) 03:00, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

July music

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Check out my talk, - if you have little time, listen to Gilda Cruz-Romo ↗ in the final scene of Aida, if you have more read her article, and if you have still more check out my music, some sung with me in choir, some played by friends, all heard with friends. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:18, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
:{{reply to|Gerda Arendt}} My voice this time is Amelita Galli-Curci ↗. Her "Caro nome" would stimulate the lust of any duke. Narky Blert (talk) 16:56, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
:: I agree, thank you! - Do you love Brahms? Perhaps you can listen to yesterday's concert ↗ of all Brahms. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:15, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
:: Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:08, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
:: Béatrice Uria-Monzon ↗ and her story, Julia Hagen ↗ and her no story ↗ --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
:: On Bach ↗'s day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:45, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
::: {{ping|Gerda Arendt}} A master conductor bends an orchestra to his will https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PR-sLcXFo
::: I don't remember if I've told you this story before. A Dutch online friend, no longer with us, was good enough to have played principal horn in Bergman's 1975 film of ''Die Zauberflöte'' ↗ (the only piece by Mozart he liked). One day in the Netherlands, a visiting conductor arrived from England. (He refused to say who it was, but I suspect it was Malcolm Sargent ↗.) Ascending the podium, he handed his top hat, his white gloves, his cane, and his cloak lined with red silk to a lackey. The principal bassoon muttered, "My God, it's Dracula".
::: Only sheer professionalism got the orchestra through the next two hours. Narky Blert (talk) 19:00, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

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August music

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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 found ''today'' a youtube of an 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 sang Dona nobis pacem ↗ (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:48, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Gerda Arendt}} I too take pride in having written articles which attract one view per day. Do you know Priaulx Rainier ↗'s ''Cycle for Declamation ↗''? It must take nerves of steel to sing.
:I've been pondering on how to include "Und was behan dex Soldaten Weib?" in enwp. The Dutch article ↗ is very feeble, and the sources to support an artivle just aren't there. I may be able to add a sentence or two to ''Schweik in the Second World War ↗''. There are several recordings in German, including one by Lotte Lenya ↗ (YouTube link ↗), and two significant ones in English, as "The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife", by popular musicians: Marianne Faithfull ↗ (for me, the best interpreter of Weill since Lenya) and PJ Harvey ↗. Narky Blert (talk) 08:19, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
:: Can't believe that Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib ↗ has no article in German. Busy today (a recent deaths bio on her last day, and the Bach cantata on the Main page better than yesterday morning, but not ready for GA as it should be. I raised the count for the singer to 29 yesterday ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:35, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
::: {{ping|Gerda Arendt}} I've been working (slowly) on ''Soldaten Weib'' in my sandbox. I think I'm going to have enough for an enwiki article - not least because the Weill setting is a year earlier than the Eisler one, and the cities and gifts are slightly different. I'll keep you informed.
::: During my researches, I came across Sari Gruber, who might be of interest to you. I haven't done a proper search, but there's a good-looking biography ↗ on the Bach Cantatas Website. There are some clips on YouTube of her as Despina in ''Cosí''. Yrs, Narky Blert (talk) 10:54, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
:::: Thank you. My days are busy, will look, perhaps next week. Just a little warning that Bach Cantatas is frowned upon by some. Perhaps you can find were the site got the info from. It's usually listed, and as usually not working anymore ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
:::: Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading in today's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:01, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
::::: {{ping|Gerda Arendt}} Thank you as always.
::::: My draft article was coming along nicely, and I was getting ready to post - when I did one more search and found {{jstor|30043820}} - ''25 pages'' by :de:Nils Grosch ↗. That puts to rest any remaining doubt about notability, and I need to study it.
::::: Eisler set the "gift" verses in the major, and the "veil" verse in the minor. Weill did the opposite; a striking effect. Narky Blert (talk) 07:56, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
:::::: Thank you! Happy studying! - On top of my talk: birthday of a great violinist ↗ and Requiem for a great friend. We sang Paradisi gloria from the Stabat Mater ↗ in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

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September music

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My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:03, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
:I'm very close to publication. Grosch's article is excellent. In the meantime, as a curiosity, this is what I believe to be the very first setting ↗ of "Und was bekam...", by Mischa Spoliansky ↗, sung by Lucie Mannheim ↗ (complete with throat-clearing). (The YouTube title is wrong - "Lied vom Weib..." came later; in it, some of the cities are different.)
:Paul Dessau ↗ set the poem, but I can't find his version. I'd never heard of him before, but from what I've listened to, his Lieder should be better known. Narky Blert (talk) 16:28, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
::{{ping|Gerda Arendt}} "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib? ↗" Narky Blert (talk) 13:08, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
::: Thank you! - Canto General ↗ --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:20, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
:::: Another glaring omission in enwiki is ":de:Surabaya Johnny ↗". How on Earth did Brecht and Weill, two men, understand that girl so well? Narky Blert (talk) 16:46, 5 September 2025 (UTC)
::::: I agree! - I enjoy a DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:47, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
::::: As you will know, Arvo Pärt ↗ is 90 today. Did you know that it took me some trouble to get him to the main page? Listen! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:00, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
::::: Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:06, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
::::: My 100th biography to the Main page in 2025 is Siegmund Nimsgern ↗. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:20, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
::::: My story today is about the principal violin ↗ of the Concentus Musicus; she would have been 95 OTD. I felt connected when the second oboist of our recent concert ↗, of Haydn's Stabat 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) 20:19, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

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October music

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My story today is about a mezzo as a thinking person, DYK? (The nomination wasn't by me, which probably helped to a short review.) - Look at the video if you have a few minutes. I never saw her on stage, but (in 2022) the last Carmen production at the Bastille Opéra that she was in, - see music. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:31, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
:In return, I offer an article which I started some years ago, which putters along at one view.day: Zorian Quartet ↗. They gave several notable premieres; Bartok wasn't exactly mainstream repertoire in the 1940s. I also started the biographics of two of its founding members; IIRC, I couldn't find enough about the other two. My link ↗ is the only reroding of Benjamim Britten playing his viola. (Their recording of Britten's 2nd quartet ↗ occupied an odd number of 78rpm sides, and they needed a filler.) Narky Blert (talk) 06:16, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
:: That's great! No, I didn't know! - Happy 50th birthday, Alain Altinoglu!) - I let the video begin with a closeup of the octobass ;) Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:58, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
:: 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 (in today's story, - I don't want to sprinkle youtube links outside my user pages). - 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) 19:31, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
:: My latest: Roberta Alexander ↗, - listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

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Today Sequenza III ↗ on Luciano 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) 20:37, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Elsa Reger on her birthday with a short sample of her husband's music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:21, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

300 years ago: Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79 ↗, on the occasion for which it was written, Reformation Day - it's not only Halloween today. You are invited to the peer reviews for another candidate ↗. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

November music

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Today I remember a singer who impressed me on stage. - You are invited to a 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) 21:24, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

I have three biographies on the main page today, miss a fourth one ↗, nominated a fifth, that means little time for other matters. My places now include La Scala ↗, - see music, Verdi three times, and twice in my story! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
:Congratultaions! I think the only article I ever started on a singer was Elizabeth Laurence ↗, who I discoverd through ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle ↗''. Narky Blert (talk) 10:16, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
:: Interesting, - I'll look some other day, too busy. The only one I started was the day before the three, Willi Gundlach ↗, one of my inspiring conductors. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:50, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
:: 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) 19:46, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
::: ...were it not for the portraits of Engels and Marx hanging on the wall... Narky Blert (talk) 04:42, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Actually...

I thought you were referring to this edit of mine https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=prev&oldid=1319077420 ↗ at ANI. (You have to look a bit to find my comment -- looks like I accidentally clobbered someone else's change, though I don't know how.) I mean, it fits both the projected product, and its sponsor, don't you think? <b style="color:red;">E</b><b style="color:blue;">Eng</b> 22:46, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

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December music

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On a recent trip to Paris, I saw where Guy Morançon ↗ worked who was first to record Mendelssohn's organ music, on a great instrument, - listen, illustrated with historic images. - I also strolled in Frank Gehry ↗'s creation, Fondation Louis Vuitton ↗. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

It was the first time that I was involved (a bit) in a pictured ITN blurb. More pics of buildings by him on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

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Happy New Year!

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:Thank you! And the same to you.
:Much as I would wish to, it seems unlikely that I will resume high-volume editing. Narky Blert (talk) 04:31, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

January music

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300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:07, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

... 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) 14:15, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
:I must have heard Andrew Carter sing. I attended St Peter's School, York ↗ in the 1960s; and although it was several centuries since we had been the cathedral school, we did occasionally take part in services at York Minster. Our organist, choirmaster and music teacher was a delightful man called Freddie Wayne, forgotten to history. I remember singing under his direction as a boy soprano in ''Messiah Part II'' and the ''Nelson Mass ↗''. Narky Blert (talk) 18:26, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
:: Congratulations to early experiences of that kind! Both works came much later for me, but an enthusiastic music teacher who founded a school choir and picked voices introduced us to the Choral Fantasy ↗ and Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes ↗ when I was 11. - I had forgotten why Carter was on my watchlist, until I found the links to two choirs (which I had written), one ↗ singing Benedicite ↗ and the other ↗ (without me, only the young people) "Rejoice in the Lord alway". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:43, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
:: Today you can watch the 2010 premiere of a violin sonata with the composer also the pianist ↗. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:33, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
:: 20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor ↗ (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine 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) 20:49, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

February music

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Today some 1510 carving ↗ from St. Valentin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:48, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:The poem doesn't seem to be in ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn''. I suspect A+B didn't include lyrics whose author was known.
:The archaic spelling reminded me of William Dunbar ↗'s "Lament for the Makaris ↗" (text ↗), written at very nearly the same time. In old Scots, "quh" was pronounced "wh". You'll recognise some Germanic words which have dropped out of modern English or whose spelling has changed, e.g. heill, Erd, sicker, knicht. Surprisingly, no-one seems to have set it to music. Narky Blert (talk) 06:31, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Thank you! - Giants today, RD Helmuth Rilling ↗ and OTD Friedrich Cerha ↗ 100. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:11, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Today something new: a 100th birthday of someone alive, György Kurtág ↗! In 2004 I was there when he and his wife played for the Rheingau Musik Festival ↗ where he was the featured composer. They played as the 2019 DYK said, on an upright piano, - listen, the last piece was the same. - More pics uploaded, enjoy. And Rosiestep shows the latest cat! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Today's main page ↗ features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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March music

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Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page ↗, I'm most proud of a woman's work ↗, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:48, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

May music

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Check out music: des Soldaten Weib and 20 others, - you would have loved it ↗, as I did --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:08, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
:I recognised about one-third of those (and yes, I did spot ''die Stöckelschuh'').
:One of the songs mentions another place in the Mysterious East, besides Surabaya - Mandalay ↗. That reminded me of this curious setting ↗ of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Mandalay ↗". It's reminiscent of those patriotic music-hall ↗ songs which were popular in late C19 and early C20. Discogs lists no fewer than four composers; though I suspect that one or two of them only tinkered with the words.
:The British never fully colonised Burma, and it retained an exotic air. That may explain why Kipling (who knew India) got the geography wrong. Flying fish ↗ are saltwater species, and Mandalay is 630km inland up the Irrawaddy River ↗. Moulmein ↗ is on the coast, 200km from Rangoon ↗ in the opposite direction. Narky Blert (talk) 06:00, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

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