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The Bugle: Issue 217, May 2024

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DYK for Ernest Prestwich

On 12 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ernest Prestwich, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Harrogate War Memorial, by Ernest Prestwich, names 1163 casualties of the First and Second World Wars, of whom more than 300 have unknown graves, and the youngest was 15 years old? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernest Prestwich. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ernest Prestwich), 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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DYK for Harrogate War Memorial

On 12 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Harrogate War Memorial, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Harrogate War Memorial, by Ernest Prestwich, names 1163 casualties of the First and Second World Wars, of whom more than 300 have unknown graves, and the youngest was 15 years old? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernest Prestwich. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Harrogate War Memorial), 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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Women in Red June 2024

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File:Mill Hill Chapel Leeds A (3).JPG

Hope all is well! Just thought you might like to know that when booking my ticket for Competing Churches and Chapels, 1829–1939 (A Joint Conference of the Ecclesiological Society and the Chapels Society) here, I noticed your pic used as the header image. Although the grey border cuts it off on this page, there is some text correctly crediting you at the bottom of the full image of the Ecclesiological Society. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 10:18, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Ooh, thank you, Nice one. It's a pity that the Eventbrite link no longer works, but it's good to know, anyway. Over the years I've spotted a few of my pics being used, and there is rarely any acknowledgment. Two of the naughtiest were newspapers - they should have known better, haha. As for the chapel in the picture, it has now lost its graceful rows of spires around the tops of the walls. It was very pretty once. I hope you have managed to get inside. its poppy heads are very fine work. Storye book (talk) 10:39, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

June music

story · music · places

Thank you for the Faerber pic! More roses for you! For related thoughts and music, look on my talk for 1 June. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Enjoy today's story, related to my topic of the year: 300 years Bach's chorale cantatas, and the first was written for today, - listen to the music, beginning with a French overture for a chorale fantasy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:40, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll have a look. Storye book (talk) 13:46, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Franz Kafka died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Alexander Lang? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:22, 4 June 2024 (UTC) [1] --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Lang done. Pretty picture, this time! Storye book (talk) 18:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Agree, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

I get more and more fascinated with that person! The German WP has two sons and a daughter, and I find only one in references we can use. - Anna and Bernhard Blume? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:29, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Blumes done. Nice pic, I think? We are lucky to get that. Storye book (talk) 15:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, thank you so much! - Today's story is about an extraordinary biography, Peter Demetz. - I uploaded a few more pics but leave the link, because there's a new one of Graham and his mother who liked it. Monika Frimmer? (take your time, I just don't want to forget.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:20, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Frimmer done. I found another nice pic. Storye book (talk) 08:21, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

yess - I remember her on stage --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:08, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Storye book (talk) 08:21, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

New pics of spectacular weather. I really like the image of Alexander Lang, on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Almost 10k views for Lang yesterday, and all will have seen your pic! Could you perhaps crop Katja Paryla from File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-W0519-0028, Berlin, 80. Geburtstag Wolfgang Heinz.jpg (centre) or find another one? de:Annette Reber, for fairness? The second woman with him has no article, and the third we don't know. - Congrats to the double DYK! - Any thoughts about the Kerck nom? I don't mean approval, just clarification. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:06, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

The Katna Paryla job has already been done today, by Lotje. I'll have a look at the other things. Storye book (talk) 08:41, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I have discovered that we are not permitted to upload non-free images onto English Wikipedia if they are intended for German Wkiipedia articles. Sorry. I did find an image here, if that helps. Storye book (talk) 08:56, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

OK I have looked at the nom. I am sick and tired of certain people stalking your nominations and distracting the conversation because they have never heard of Puccini, and they think that mere facts given by a theatre company are all necessarily promotional. There is nothing promotional about saying that a composer wrote this opera, and a singer sang that role. If they had included adjectives, such as "brilliant" or "very fine", then that would be promotional, but facts of composition and roles are not promotional. That's my opinion, anyway. The one thing we can be sure of, is that the great theatres have no need to lie about basic facts - so we can pick and choose those basic facts and repeat them safely. Again, just my opinion. I believe that the principle here is that WP rules need to be used with common sense, and not just tools for winning arguments. Storye book (talk) 09:13, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. The crop was made in 2019 by someone else, and I happily inserted in Lang's article and will begin her article shortly.

The Reber pic helps, - while that is probably not a RS, I can use it as external link when I write her article.

I'd like to keep the discussion within that nom, but if it isn't solved there I'll go higher. Questioning ethical use of sources is just too much to silently let go by. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:39, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I agree with that. Storye book (talk) 15:29, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Nothing so far in that area. - Today I wanted to write a happy song story, on a friend's birthday, but instead we have the word of thunder on top of it, which would have been better on 2 June, this year's first Sunday after Trinity. The new lilypond - thanks to DanCherek - is quite impressive. As my 2 Jun story said: Bach was fired up. - Today's Main page is rich in music, also Franz Liszt and a conductor. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

When photographing in the Mansion House in Doncaster this year, I was shown an old grand piano which had been played by Liszt when he visited. I photographed it, and the photo is on Commons. A man played it a little, for me. It needed tuning, but it had a rich bass, and was quite loud. A pleasant sound. Storye book (talk) 15:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Great! - Éric Tappy? (the Nerone to the Poppea who died last year) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:21, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Tappy done. Storye book (talk) 09:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Excellent! - Today is "the day" for James Joyce, also for Bach's fourth chorale cantata (and why does it come before the third?) - the new pics have a mammal I had to look up. - I have two DYK noms open which might profit from your compromise ideas. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:59, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

compromise ideas. Storye book (talk) 17:12, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

I like that approach, but meant the real nom, - compromise wordings welcome. - New pics of food and flowers come with the story of Noye's Fludde (premiered on 18 June), written by Brian Boulton. I nominated Éric Tappy because he died, and it needs support today! I nominated another women for GA in the Women in Green June run, - review welcome, and more noms planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:58, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't do GA's, but I have done minor copyedits on two of those articles. If you don't like my edits, please change it back. Good luck with the nominations. I am a big fan of Noye's Fludde, it's magical. But when organising its first performance, Britten was behaving very badly, and if Peter Pears had not come along and stopped him at that point, bad things would have happened ... so I think we owe a lot to Peter Pears. Storye book (talk) 16:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Agree, - I didn't know that. - Thank you for the support, and to "create a role" means an opera singer performing it in the world premiere. I learned that from Voceditenore. - Thank you for the hook wordings! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

... and thank you again for your support for Tappy: on the Main page and my story today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

I loved your "watch" link for Tappy. He did have a beautiful voice, and was a fine actor. And Monteverdi too. Bliss. Storye book (talk) 15:56, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

It helped that I did Rachel Yakar recently ;) - watch more if you missed it then - didn't dare to add them to the articles as perhaps not official --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:01, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh, so romantic! And so rare. A beautiful performance from both. Storye book (talk) 16:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Gerhard Klingenberg? - would you agree that just the face would be better for the infobox? I like hand expression but this one doesn't offer much. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:09, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Must dash - a family birthday. Will look later - this evening or tomorrow. Storye book (talk) 10:39, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Klingenberg done. Storye book (talk) 09:26, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, on the Main page. - Yesterday, someone changed back to the long format but I reverted requesting a reason. - Ernst Pepping? - Today is a feast day for which Bach composed a chorale cantata in 1724 (and we had a DYK about it in 2012). Can't believe that Jodie Devos had to die, - don't miss her video from the Opéra-Comique at the end, - story to come. The weekend brought plenty of music sung and listened to, and some of it is reflected in the last two stories! + pics of good food with good company --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Pepping done. Sorry to hear about Devos. Storye book (talk) 07:41, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you, and thank you for the generous donation of a qpq. I had simply planned to make her GA and nominate again. DYK is such an ungenerous place. Today Daniela Kerck, with a review questioning my ethics (because of using the English bio of the theatre as a ref, the only bio in English, and no answer to the question which bit in it would be "promotional"). Sigh. Don't miss the video of the trailer: much stronger storytelling than all hook words ;) - The image in my story is what I happened to see from my seat (in a performance before the festival when Anna Netrebko sang the title role, but sold out of course, and the other was possibly the icier Principessa anyway). I wrote the articles of Liu and the conductor earlier, - small (theatre) world. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Do you have words for the Klingenberg nom? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for Claude Hamilton Verity

On 7 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Claude Hamilton Verity, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Claude Hamilton Verity, a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity, was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Claude Hamilton Verity. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Claude Hamilton Verity), 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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DYK for Charles Verity

On 7 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charles Verity, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Claude Hamilton Verity, a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity, was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Claude Hamilton Verity. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Charles Verity), 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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The Bugle: Issue 218, June 2024

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DYK nomination of Frances Darlington

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DYK for Laura Veale

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The Bugle: Issue 219, July 2024

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July music

story · music · places

The story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen, and perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and yes that was too much for the Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:27, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Lando Bartolini? Could he still have a non-free image? There's this family pic, on which he is very small, and I can only guess he's the one on right. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:33, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

Libuše Domanínská? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:27, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

[2] --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:35, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

OK, I will look, I keep forgetting, not near my PC right now. Storye book (talk) 14:15, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, no rush. --(forgot to sign)

Done. Storye book (talk) 15:24, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Yes. (You have not approved ALT2. It takes a tick ;) ) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

Martti Wallén? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:16, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Wallén done. Storye book (talk) 07:26, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - Volker David Kirchner? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:59, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Kirchner done. Storye book (talk) 09:44, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, another great job! - Judith Hemmendinger? Her photo was just deleted. A Yoninah article, - remembering the days when she practically ran DYK, and was interested in all topics. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:51, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Hemmendinger done. Not a professional photo, but a nice, smiley one. Storye book (talk) 08:41, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

Otar Taktakishvili? ... whose music she played --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

A pic was just added to Felicia Weathers, and I believe your crop miracle would help to see her ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:34, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Weathers done. Storye book (talk) 10:32, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - I remember today Bach's 1724 cantata for this Sunday which is unusual in many respects. Another woman needs attention for RD, Marina Kondratyeva. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:59, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your support for the dancer who made it to the Main page. Ruth Hesse? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Hesse done. I'm very pleased with the picture, this time. Storye book (talk) 08:55, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, very expressive! - Kondratyeva is on the Main page now, Hesse to follow. What do you suggest for DYK hook for K.? - My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 (at the Burgtheater, which our DYK team didn't know ...) - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach, - so 3 times Mozart again if you click on "music" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Possible hooks for Marina Kondratyeva (with your usual nemesis in mind):

* ... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva was said to be "weightless, airy, poetic and spiritual"?

* ... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva performed in London in 1956 during the Cold War, with the Bolshoi troupe?

* ... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva taught her Bolshoi pupils to fill a role with individual character?

* ... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years? Storye book (talk) 19:15, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Excuse me for laughing, not about the proposals but because I came to share Template:Did you know nominations/Ruth Hesse. That one was rescued by Voceditenore. I had to remove the role description, though, because I couldn't see the source for security concerns. - Five years ago ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

She's my story today. Don't miss video ;) I'm tempted to nominate without any hook, leaving it to their choice - 'cause the pic tells all much better than words. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:16, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

Done. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:20, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

Gibson done. That is sad news. So sorry to hear that. Storye book (talk) 10:51, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, much better. April Cantelo? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Cantelo done. A very stylised 1950s glamour shot, but I'm guessing that that is the one she would have chosen. Storye book (talk) 16:58, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, beautiful. Another crop job: Elena Mauti Nunziata - we hardly need so much cushion and blanket for expression ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Nunziata done. Storye book (talk) 16:36, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - Lovely DYK for Frances Darlington! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I hope it survives intact (see its talk page). Storye book (talk) 07:39, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Good stats! - Jerzy Artysz? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Falstaff video and scenes ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:10, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Artysz done. It's a bit cut-off, but it's a nice, smiley picture, and probably the best one available at the moment. Storye book (talk) 18:59, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you - the missing part is easy to imagine ;) - Another look at music: three women there, - a sad record. The Main page also has a Mozart symphony I love, and my story is a 2016 hook. It was connected not only to Max Reger's death in 1916, remembered then, but also the death of a friend who - and we around him - knew he was dying when he listened to the concert which was his last time leaving home, and music from Reger's Requiem was played for his funeral three months later. - What do you think of nominating Gibson? I feel too attached. I can supply a qpq. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

qpq: Template:Did you know nominations/Morgan Library & Museum --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Elena Mauti Nunziata again, on the Main page now: while I agree that a pic of her alone is preferable to two people, I believe that the Butterfly crop is needlessly long, and too detailed left of her head. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Not sure about the current Nunziata pic. It's blurry, so I wouldn't want to crop it further. If someone else wants to crop it, that's up to them. Storye book (talk) 09:17, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

also: Eugene Sârbu? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:05, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

I'll have a look. Storye book (talk) 09:17, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Sârbu done. There's a lot of shade in the picture, but it's so beautiful that I couldn't resist. I think he would have liked this pic. I hope that's OK? Storye book (talk) 09:35, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

I like his pic, from the QEC, now also used as a ref ;) - Because Madama is blurred I don't like her extra-longness, but that will stay then, understand. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:23, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

I liked his pic but we have now a free one. He needs support at RD now. Frank Stähle? - from my story - a refreshing Halleluja is your reward ;) - even if you find nothing. He conducted the second performance sick but told us only afterwards. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Would you have a DYK for Jerzy Artysz? Amazing array of title roles - but I know what some reviewers would think about that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Not much luck around today. I could not find a pic for Frank Stähle. I also could not find Eugene Sârbu at RD. I'm not quite sure what RD is. I'll have a look at Jerzy Artysz and will nominate him if I can find a hook. Storye book (talk) 09:24, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

I nominated before I say this. - RD is Recent deaths, or rather: part of WP:ITNN. (I can repeat it, was just short on time, and will be out for the rest of the day.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:30, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

OK. I have just seen this, and had already added two ALTs. Hope that's OK. Storye book (talk) 10:35, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I have just started improving Gerald English. No reason, except that he is one of my music heroes, but his article has almost no citations. If you know anyone who would like to help, please let them know? I am hoping that they will not remove any facts until we have had a reasonable time to search for citations. Listen Storye book (talk) 17:53, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Will do eventually. Just returned, seen that the violinist is still not on the Main page, and wanting to expand Wolfgang Rihm and yesterday's cantata. (I think I asked you about Stähle before, - sorry about that.) How do you like the Halleluja? (of the successor choir, so without me, - we did concerts with them in 1999 and 2001, before they grabbed the name that is.) Our conductor is a personal friend of Tassilo Schlenther, their conductor for a long time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

I couldn't find the Halleluja conducted by Stähle. Which composer? Could I have a link? Storye book (talk) 09:12, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

(... and the violinist made it shortly before midnight, and is my story today. The Bach cantata is on the Main page today, because it was premiered on 30 July, on which the eighth Sunday after Trinity fell that year - was 21 July this years, so my story that day and only mentioned today. Today, however is my parent's anniversary day, and nice after all to celebrate that with a Bach cantata.) Sorry for having been unclear: my story when I wrote that mentioned concerts I sang with Stähle, but the Halleluja was conducted - in St. Valentin, as part of Kein schöner Land run by Günter Wewel - by sort of his successor who has been a friend of our conductor from school days = small world ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:46, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Wow. Yes, I loved that rendering of Hallelujah. That conductor has good choral control. That is a rare thing. And some jolly good drums - you can't go wrong with big drums in that, eh. I may have mentioned before (sorry if I'm repeating) but in Canterbury all the local choral singers would squash into one church and yell the Messiah from beginning to end. The organ accompanied - no room for other instruments. The singing was so loud, that you couldn't hear yourself sing. There was no audience (no room form them). I'd love to do that again. Everybody had their own score, because it was a standard for us. Such a long time ago (late 70s). I wonder if they still do it. I went as part of the Canterbury Singers (patron Michael Tippet). It was pro-am, and I was am. Storye book (talk) 16:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

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August music

story · music · places

Thank you for all the inspirational images of people which add so much life to the dry words! Walter Fink? - I may have asked before, sorry then. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:01, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Fink done. Thank you for your kind words. And thank you for all your hard work on WP all these years. You are the IMDb of music. Storye book (talk) 09:45, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you ;) - Rihm was one of the five composers whose works were played for Fink's 80's birthday (which was on DYK on the day!). Rihm and Lachenmann were not there but Hosokawa and Kirchner were present, and Jörg Widmann even played himself. Some idea for a birthday ;) - For one of mine, there was the premiere of an a cappella Halleluja by Graham Waterhouse at the Idstein church, the conductor was on vacation, Bianca Ehry conducted (who later became assistant organist at the Frankfurt Cathedral, and married Christian Rathgeber, and I ride to choir rehearsals with her mother as long as her road is closed due to construction), and the composer gave her the pitch from the organ. So he thought. Only, unfamiliar with the Catholic mass, he thought the old music would come first, and gave us the pitch for If ye love me. It was only one step lower, but as he had played with my initials, and the altos have low A and G in the end, we reached areas where it wasn't great to put it mildly. - On my program today: the most noticed work by Rihm because written for a spectacular occasion, Reminiszenz, and Bach's cantata that will turn 300 tomorrow, BWV 101. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:52, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Can you perhaps make a crop of the Rihm lead image, for DYK purposes? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:22, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Back to Fink: the image looks somewhat unfamiliar, while I recognize him in this pic. That's not a good one, don't get me wrong, but I'm not really sure the other is of the same person. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Rihm is done (Link}. Is that was you wanted? As for Fink - that is definitely the same man. Look at the the hairline, especially at the front/side. The eyes, nose and beard are also the same. I'm sure it is him. Storye book (talk) 19:35, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

I believe you. He just looked much more frail when I saw him last. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, the picture that I found showed him much younger. Actually I had to use that pic, all the others were too small. Storye book (talk) 21:15, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Antônio Meneses? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:17, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

A free image has already been found, now. Storye book (talk) 08:46, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but it's poor. Can it at least be cropped? Or a better one taken from a performance ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Today I have two "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of my story, watch and listen, - I like today's especially because you see him at work, hear him talk about his work and the result of his work - rare! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:37, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Meneses done. I have lightened it as best I could, although we still can't really see his face, which is in shadow. Thank you for the link. I shall look later.

This week I'm doing a lot of photography of 19th-century gravestones, so next week I shall have a lot of editing and uploading to do. Sigh. But I am researching the monumental masons who made them, so I have to do it. Some of those old stones are beautiful, and the masons working in the graveyards today really admire them. It is good that the work is still appreciated. Storye book (talk) 15:34, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, and how fitting in the context. - ... and a third, like 22 July but with interview and the music to be played today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:43, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'm glad Sarah Gibson made it. Storye book (talk) 16:16, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Celestina Casapietra? (was on DYk in 2019, no problem there) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:07, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Casapietra done. Looking at the picture I guessed her age as around 30 years, or maybe late 20s. But, looking at her article, maybe the date is 1970s? So please adjust the caption as you see fit. The heavy makeup may be making her look younger than she really was. Storye book (talk) 08:55, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, haven't looked: Verna Osborne, on the Main page, DYK. The main author doesn't like infoboxes, so be it, but she'd deserve a pic if there is one. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:00, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Done. Storye book (talk) 10:33, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, great! - I thought at first "can't be 1930s" because I had forgotten that she - unlike many others - didn't die in 2024 ;) - On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extrordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. I normally don't like to point at the calendar day for a liturgical piece, but today is a day of personal celebration, making me deliberately inconsistent. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:10, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Christof Nel? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:22, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Done. Storye book (talk) 17:31, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

... and the it was the wrong person, and deleted, but what about the other? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:56, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand it either. I first uploaded a pic of the wrong person (glasses and big curly hair), then the right person (no glasses, chin on hand). Then I asked an admin to delete just the first one. Can you confirm that the second one was the right person? Storye book (talk) 09:23, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

I found this pic, of a person I never met, nor even saw pictured before. I saw the "wrong" pic in the article briefly, yesterday, and guess it's from the Mozart Requiem news with two men and a woman. You will be able to tell if the one with glasses is the right person. The reasoning for the deletion (below on this talk) remains Chinese to me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:49, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Yikes, you found a really crazy photo! Quite scary. I have now replaced the deleted image, and I believe that the new pic is the right person. Here is the source: [3]. I have asked the deleter to explain what went wrong yesterday. I hope all is well now. Storye book (talk) 10:02, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Seen and liked as soon as I asked ;) - Thank you for all the work you put into this, - the best part of memorials! - The soprano is on the Main page, but today's story is about education (10 years after lecturing our founder), and tomorrow's will be Walter Fink, with the five composers in a DYK hook, in the golden times when the K in DYK still meant knowledge. I hope she'll stay on the Main page until 17 August, and if not, a day sooner or later doesn't matter. I also uploaded pics, the private ones, poppy field - piano - French food outdoors, - the latter was a coolish day with tremendous rain which doesn't show, - wanted to go to an outdoor opera, German premiere of a new Finnish comedy, but it was just too uncomfortable. - Music for today's feast is Monteverdi, the best concert we ever did (so pictured again on my talk), but it wasn't recorded, substituted with a "Pacific" one that comes with subtitles line by line in Latin and English: I learned something! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:51, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about the stage director whose image gave you so much trouble, - watch Aida, so tender so cruel. Found yesterday that his day of death was wrong by almost a week, and today that he had a wife who worked with him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:21, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Hans-Georg Münzberg? Those I see are very small. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Münzberg done. It was taken from a fairly large picture, so we have enough detail for a closeup. Storye book (talk) 15:57, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Maryvonne Le Dizès? --

Le Dizès done. A happy, smiling one, this time. Storye book (talk) 10:16, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Love it! - You have a nice DYK today, thank you! - Sunday story about another of Bach's chorale cantatas, listen, as I listened to two impressive very different choral concerts, - music by 16 composers. In the latest cloudy pictures: a hidden deer, a cat and a blaze of a sunset. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:36, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Siegfried Lorenz (baritone)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Lorenz done. Storye book (talk) 09:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, nice! Before I nominate him for RD I want to see a better source than one quoting Wikipedia. First my story today about a woman, nominated for RD but needing support as I write this. A composer died whose article is long (and has a pic) but mostly unreferenced. And some articles open for review, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:09, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

The picture was originally taken off this album cover. I'll add the link to the image filepage. Storye book (talk) 10:29, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Back to Jerzy Artysz. What I see is overlong. Someone uploaded a new version. I wanted to simply revert but the image before is also not the "cut" version. Help? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what you want, but see what you think. If it's still wrong, I'll do a third edit, with face and a bit of the neck.Storye book (talk) 09:42, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

This is great. What I saw looked like taller but not as wide, - overstretched, and when I clicked on the image I saw no crop at all in whatever version. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Good. I hope the picture remains stable. Storye book (talk) 10:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Hope so, too. Today it's Siegfried Lorenz (baritone), on his birthday, nominated for RD, and with a youtube using the same image ;) The concerns regarding Goehr are detailed on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:17, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

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I have uploaded a different image of the same man File:Kristof Nel (3a).jpg, on a new image file page, and added the image to the article. Storye book (talk) 09:56, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for William Pope (priest)

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Fantastic work, as usual! BorgQueen (talk) 01:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, BorgQueen! Storye book (talk) 10:34, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

September music

story · music · places

Thank you for the interesting bio, a pleasure to review! What do you think of my short version of the life of Alexander Goehr? Our DYK team would probably want that he worked in a training kibbutz. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda! Storye book (talk) 10:34, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Can you perhaps help rephrasing ALT4? I have a Bach cantata to write, postponed day after day since Friday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I meant ALT5, and he rephrased it himself, and you could now review it ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:51, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Let us hope now that peace will reign. ;-) Storye book (talk) 10:21, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the amicable review! Today my plan is to make a Bach cantata GA and nominate for DYK because the 300th birthday is on 10 Sep. It's a very basic article (I wanted to expand on Friday but came Goehr and that nom), and finding a GA reviewer may be hard. As Mascha Kaléko said: "Don't believe in miracles. Rely on them." It's BWV 78. I'll end up doing the DYK nom before any GA review ;) - helping a miracle a bit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:58, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Good luck with all that - very ambitious! Storye book (talk) 13:59, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

If it doesn't work, we can always run a DYK "late", - the date 10 Sep is only the calendar birthday, while the liturgical was last Sunday, - in the end it probably doesn't matter. Backup: run it OTD on 10 September. This cantata is super beautiful (with that same bass as the Crucifixus of the B minor Mass, 27 times!), and it's one of few which was never on DYK yet ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Ooh, nice! Do you have a link for the bit with the bass? Is it a ground bass (repeated pattern as in Dido's Lament?) I love those.Storye book (talk) 15:09, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Easy link to listen: I ran it - of course - on the liturgical birthday, with a youtube link to the listening ("watch"). Will find a source in the prose as well, - it's in the Mincham external link but they don't regard Julian a RS. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:21, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

ps: perhaps I'll try Mincham for ref, - it's not FAC. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I listened, thank you. I don't think it's a ground bass - probably a voice in a fugue - I wasn't able to listen long enough to work that out (painters working, regular interruptions). It's certainly the focus of the piece, though - a really precious jewel of a thing, that composition - and a jolly good performance, too. Storye book (talk) 16:50, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes. it's not a simple ground bass but appears in instrumental and vocal voices also. Gardiner wrote a good description. Could you perhaps help to put that in Wikipedia voice? - Today's story has 3 composers, I couldn't decide for the one on the Main page or the one who didn't make it on his bicentenary, so took both, and the pic has a third. Listen if you have a bit of time. The music, played by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, impressed me. (The official hook says that he died.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. Which Gardiner? Do you mean John Eliot Gardiner? Or one of our editors? Where is that description? Or do you want me to rewrite the technical description of the structure of BWV 78 in its article - in which case I would not want to touch that - I like it as it is. I'm happy to help if I can understand what you want. Storye book (talk) 10:01, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

In the context of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, I thought it was clear that I meant the conductor, and that his writing is one of the references used in the article. Hope that helps. It's a longish text for the several cantatas on vol. 7 of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, - look for the cantata number or for "smile". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:01, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll look. Storye book (talk) 13:26, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Recommended reading today: Frye Fire, by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:35, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Happy because my story today is about a Czech mezzo soprano who is mentioned on the Main page on her birthday. Pic for Milka Stojanović --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:47, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations on so quickly overcoming the recent misunderstanding. You didn't deserve that kind of mistake. And congratulations on getting another musician on the main page. Storye book (talk) 13:58, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

I didn't do a thing, not for overcoming (I'm too proud to appeal ;) - as the project should known since 2013) nor for the singer who was brought to the birthdays last year by someone else but I noticed - with a smile - only this year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:14, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah, but you did do a thing. You had already earned the love and respect of many Wikipedians, who then came out and spoke in your favour. They know that without you, real music would be under-represented on WP. Storye book (talk) 14:34, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - Three stories related to today in memory, 11 September, 20 July and 20 June, the latter piece of art also pictured on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the link - I didn't know about that artwork. Storye book (talk) 07:39, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Read my stories every day ;) - today the one you approved months after the nom ;) - Please don't approve Maryvonne Le Dizès, but perhaps comment. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Short of time today, but will look later. Storye book (talk) 08:49, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Done. Storye book (talk) 15:00, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Your second response there made my day! - I replied to the response to the response, but you can probably do better. - Günter Reich pic? - Schoenberg's 150th today, and I had a hook - about Reich - in 2010 mentioning the same Boulez rejected (or rather: not even tried) now, - it's almost amusing. I shock hands with Boulez at a reception after Graham Waterhouse played in the ensemble modern orchestra, the ensemble being another of the "most prestigious" ensembles of contemporary music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Reich done. Will look at response to response etc. Storye book (talk) 09:09, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - 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 (with Reich) 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) 13:34, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

I believe that File:Maximiliane von La Roche.jpg would be nicer without the outer frame, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

I have removed the outer frame and put the revised image in a separate file, here. Storye book (talk) 08:18, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Also: Siegfried Palm? - he was my second DYK on 15 September, but I preferred Friedrich Schorlemmer because I was afraid he might not stay for another day, but he did. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Palm done. Storye book (talk) 08:37, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Mela Tenenbaum? she was concert master with the choir I sang in in the US. Mozart's Mass in B minor: the first night she took the soprano's tempo in the Laudamus, the second night she ran away, - still makes me smile. Her death was entered to the article only yesterday by an IP, without ref. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:48, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Mela Tenenbaum done. Storye book (talk) 08:57, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

sorry, another one, potentially my story today: Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Martienssen-Lohmann done. Nice to see an older one, for a change. Storye book (talk) 09:18, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hugs of thanks on all accounts! - ALT7 has been suggested, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:14, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

I agree with your comment on the nom page. The trouble with those long conversations, is that what starts as a fine, straightforward ALT is tied in linguistic knots by the end of the page. It's ALT3 for me. Storye book (talk) 10:21, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Understand. I shook hands with Boulez and saw (part of Jahrhundertring so am biased ;) - Hans Otto Jung? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:58, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

ps: look, how lovely --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:06, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Jung done. I found no online images, so I searched through the article's citations, and found that one. Not great, but better than nothing. Glad to see he's been promoted - I thanked the promoter. Storye book (talk) 08:58, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

In 2017, you mean? - My story today - as you know - is about that man who played jazz when it was banned by the Nazis, - you can listen to how they played it later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:11, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Oops, I hadn't noticed the date. But never mind, the YouTube recording is great. There are some awful trad jazz players around playing live in my area these days, but Jung and his mates listened to each other, and it worked. I suppose I got spoiled by my parents constantly playing records of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby with his backing groups and various others, plus modern jazz as well. I suppose you just never appreciate the good stuff fully until you have heard the bad stuff. Storye book (talk) 08:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Agree! - Regina Becker-Schmidt? - see music for Vivaldi and our last concert! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:48, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Regina Becker-Schmidt done. Storye book (talk) 08:05, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Do you agree that a closer crop of Beppe Menegatti's pic might focus better on his face? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:50, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Menegatti done. Storye book (talk) 19:23, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Perfect timing before he appeared. - Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, is one of the pieces in my topic of this year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:51, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the link to Ach lieben Christen. I'm pretty sure I sang in that - the title sounds familiar - but it would be a long time ago, now. Sigh. Storye book (talk) 07:49, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Also sharing choir memories: my story today features a pic I took from my position in the choir in September 2013, - we performed 29, and that day this year I'll listen to the same piece with a tenor with whom I sang already in Hildesheim, my first Jesu, meine Freude, the day before my grandfather was buried. (I probably told you already. I probably didn't tell you that he composed a song for "Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt".) I can also offer varied delightful music, some from Venice, also with pics I took, - note the rose in the clarinet ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Norbert Lohfink? some in the obits, - you found a good one for his brother, remember? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:27, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Norbert Lohfink done. Thanks for the hint about looking in the obits. Some good sources of pix there. Storye book (talk) 10:55, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you and request

Exceptional work on William Pope (priest)—a classic case of an aptronym. If you have access and the time, I'm looking for the actual birthdate of Anglican clergyman Geoffrey Cuming. if you have any tasks I can do for you in exchange, let me know! ~ Pbritti (talk) 02:58, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your enquiry. The answer is on the 1939 Register. He was born on 9 September 1917.

• Source: 1939 England and Wales Register. Romsey and Stockbridge. Schedule 158/3. London: HM Government. 1939. Retrieved 2 September 2024 – via Ancestry. The Vicarage. Cuming, Geoffrey, age 17, single. Birth 9 September 1917. Student at college..

Thank you for your kind offer to assist. I guess we could all do with access to sources in other countries. I am in the UK, and have a subscription to Ancestry and the British Newspaper Archive, so I can help Wikipedians with research in those fields if they ask. Now, your user page says you are in the US, and some of the Haithi Trust archives (and other similar archives) are only available to people in the US. I think Haithi Trust and/or some US universities have online archives of Crockford's, so next time I'm chasing up a past Anglican cleric, I'll maybe ask you? Cheers. Storye book (talk) 10:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Wow! You're speedy! Thank you so much—I'm actually especially happy, as I can now make special mention of him to some friends on his birthday. I would love nothing more than piercing the veil of geographic limitations to these databases, so please tag me whenever! ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:10, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Glad to be of help. Storye book (talk) 04:29, 4 September 2024 (UTC)