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Precious anniversary

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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
:Thank you, dear Gerda! ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 14:08, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

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I am assuming that your comment about sarcasm ↗ was directed at Boynamedsue and not at me. I didn't think I was being sarcastic. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:10, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
:Your assumption is correct, Robert McClenon. I didn't see sarcasm in your comments. ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 15:41, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Limerick

Thank you very much for the excellent Floq limerick, sir! <b style="color:#009">darwin</b><sup><b style="color:#A22">fish</b></sup> 18:30, 31 August 2025 (UTC).
:Thank ''you'' and always a treat to see you, dear Darwinfish. Pass my regards to the whole family of Swish-n-bishes! ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 21:07, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
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:: Thank you for the Floc limerick smiles! - My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
:::Thank you, Gerda. A good story about an artist whose music, I am ashamed to admit, I had never listened to before. Great work! (and thank you for the bumblebee, my absolute favourite insect as a little boy). ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 11:15, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
:::: Thank you for your interest. Have you heard of the composer of the following story? (just curious, nothing shameful about "never heard") - Today's story is about a rather unknown tenor, - ''the'' Mozart tenor at the house where I listened to operas as a student, and ''the'' Bach tenor where I sang in church choir, so one day he would sing Ferrando ↗ and the next day the Evangelist in the St John Passion ↗. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::You mean the the composer in the story following Shchedrin's? Mikis Theodorakis? Come on! I had, by the way, ''heard'' of Shchedrin (or rather seen his name mentioned); I'm a bit of Schnittke fan. Though my love for "classical" music is passionate, my knowledge is patchy. I had never heard of Lutz-Michael Harder either, for example. ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 06:51, 6 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::: Coming on ;) - I had problems to get Canto General to DYK (see talk), and only after long discussions found out that the reviewer had never heard of Theodorakis, nor Neruda, which told me that we can't take such knowledge for granted. - My stories often come from the main page, and I could have written three yesterday, but Harder came just by his birthday. As said, he was the tenor in concerts I sang when a student, and I don't expect anybody to know him ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 6 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::: I enjoy a DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. - Can you perhaps make a limerick about being able to get a painter to the main page easily, but a composer only with trouble over weeks, and not pictured. Sure, picturing music is hard, but the face of the composer seems expressive enough, imho. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:09, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::Not being familiar with DYK, I wasn't aware of this difficulty and find it strange. Not only the faces of composers (photographed or painted), but composers in movement, performing, conducting, or original handwritten scores, or pictures of ballet and opera, ... surely the fact that a DYK is about music shouldn't make it hard to choose and add a picture? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 21:15, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::: The rulez say the subject has to be pictured, and the composer isn't the subject. (And they say sheet music doesn't show well.) - 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) 13:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::I didn't know the rulez ... they seem to kinda suck (but then so do, de facto, those of WP:ITN with which I'm more familiar). Nor Did I Know that Pärt turned 90 on Thursday. Belated Happy Birthday and many happy returns to this incredibly creative being! ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 00:29, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::: Thank you! - Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::: Can I interest you in my 100th biography to the Main page in 2025, Siegmund Nimsgern ↗? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:26, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::::Thank you, Gerda, excellent! (Today, one of my personal heroes ↗ would have turned 99). ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 19:47, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::::: Bring him to OTD next year! - John Rutter ↗ 80 today (and there)! I sang his major choral works with four choirs, and many of his uplifting anthems, 13 DYK? I watched him explain his Magnificat ↗ in person in 1998, and now see it on Youtube: he wore the same outfit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

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) 18:19, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Happy 50th birthday, Alain Altinoglu!) - I let the video begin with a closeup of the octobass ;) Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:10, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
:A thinking woman and thus tragic mezzo, thank you Gerda, once again, for carrying your passion into the great work you do here. Opera is my blind spot, and I only knew her by name. But I ''did'' see and love the artist whose story fell on October 8 ↗, years ago in the Tonhalle, the same place where, at long last, I got to see (and worship) Martha Argerich earlier this year (after two cancellations of concerts for which I had bought tickets). ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 20:47, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
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:: About the thinking woman: I was proud that we didn't have another DYK just saying how often some woman performed that role. I brought the Brahms Double Concerto to OTD on yesterday's main page after DYK had rejected it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:45, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
:: My latest: Roberta Alexander ↗, - listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
:::Thank you! One never stops learning (didn't know, e.g., that Harnoncourt had recorded Gershwin!). ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 16:37, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
:::: It was his wish for his 80th birthday. - A friend gave me a bag she got at the Frankfurt Book Fair ↗, the bag saying "expect the unexpected" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:38, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
:::: Can't believe that Toshio Hosokawa is 70 already. He seemed so young when he composed for the 80th birthday of Walter Fink ↗. Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:04, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
:::: 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) 19:58, 24 October 2025 (UTC)
:::::Thanks again! Immense appreciation for Berio. Just a few days ago, coincidentally, I spent some time with his subdued ''Wasserklavier''. ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 22:05, 25 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) 21:06, 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) 17:05, 18 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 ;) - I reopened the FAC. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:56, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

:Thank you, Gerda, and sorry for the late reply ... dealing with some nonsense IRL. I love her musical illustrations and was sad to hear she'd left us so recently. ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 01:43, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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Organists: I went to see the church in Paris ↗ where Guy Morançon ↗ worked, quite a place, and wish Happy birthday to Gabriel Dessauer, - enjoy music he played, Dance Toccata ↗, by another Paris organist. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:49, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

More Morançon ↗: listen to his Mendelssohn on a great instrument, illustrated with historic images. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 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) 17:10, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

I brought Wozzeck ↗ to the main page ↗, not by me but I noticed the quality and the centenary. Enjoy plenty of music, three events in about 24 hours including 5 Bach cantatas and his Magnificat with the Christmas interpolations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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And I appreciate it. I'm not in solidarity, but until just now I may be the only user who's made any public statement opposed. It's not because I don't believe in organizing. It's not that I'm overjoyed with the cavalier way the foundation spends money WE mostly raise. I'm not. I think a pro-user stance is entirely proper. But I don't think the international community of users should be seen as actually opposed to our fundraising arm. That doesn't move the project forward. It's like shooting me in both hands. I'd be somewhat hobbled in our pursuit of creating the world's best online encyclopedia. BusterD (talk) 19:13, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
:Frankly, I haven't even really genned up on this. The uncomfortable thing is that a lot could be said, but it's complex, sorry, I just don't feel like elaborating, but I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Take care and keep cool. ---Sluzzelin <small>talk</small> 19:38, 29 June 2026 (UTC)