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June music

story · music · places

Enjoy today's story, related to my topic of the year: 300 years Bach's chorale cantatas, and the first was written for today. The music opens with a French overture for a chorale fantasy. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:56, 2 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) 15:28, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:02, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

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) 13:20, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

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) 14:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your messages on my talk! - The image in my DYK story is what I happened to see from my seat in a performance before the festival (with Anna Netrebko in the title role but sold out of course, and the other was possibly the icier Principessa anyway). I recommend the trailer video, with various scenes to the end of the music that Puccini was able to finish before he died in 1924. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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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) 12:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

So gorgeous, thank you! And another confusingly untrumpetty trumpet part ... most intriguing. DBaK (talk) 17:59, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for listening! - 3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021. It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:19, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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 ;) - 4 July is also the birthday of Brian Boulton who was a pioneer of a concise infobox in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:08, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:03, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Found a bit more. Today's story is about her, an outstanding violinist from Georgia, which is a sad story in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:50, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

I remember today 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) 19:34, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

She's on the Main page now. My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - 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) 11:46, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Wonderful, thank you!! DBaK (talk) 12:18, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - Yesterday I listened in concert to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, with Sabine Meyer (click on music, always). - Today's story is about Ruth Hesse, with a pic in the article only, sadly. 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) 10:10, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched the sublime ballerina mentioned above. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

... and today's story begins with Psalm 124, paraphrased in 1524, and put to five (!) chorale settings in one cantata by Bach in 1724, for this Sunday. Nominated for GA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Just a look at music (on my talk) shows remembrance of three people who died, and creating an article or improving one is all I can do. Three are on the Main page today, and three others planned ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

On Bach's day of death my story is about his cantata Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94, although the article needs work. Flute! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:04, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Gorgeous! I didn't know this one, so thank you! Now listening (Suzuki vol. 22) and lightly editing. Cheers DBaK (talk) 22:11, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Listening is it! - Wikipedia:Main Page history/2024 July 30b will have a baritone, a violinist, a composer and a Bach cantata, - almost too much, and the composer's article, Wolfgang Rihm, should be better, help wanted. - - The cantata is of 8 days ago, Wikipedia thinks that going by the liturgical years is too religious. - Anyway, good music on my parents anniversary day ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

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ABCT

Seeing your query about ABCT and their web pages, I have a Linux shell script that collects all their data and stores it in csv-like format. If you let me have an address for e-mail, I'll be glad to share it. Be warned however that it is horribly slow. If you asks very nicely, I could even - for a short while - display my own mail address here. But perhaps there is no need. Kindly from Portugal, Jan olieslagers (talk) 20:17, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Fabulous, thank you! I would love to see it. I have emailed you from your userpage ... did that work? Cheers, DBaK (talk) 20:24, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

I am afraid it didn't. But I cannot even find any email address on my own user page... perhaps due to my own stupidity. Quite likely that the address you found and used is an old one. Anyway, kindly send your message again, to [edited] 123@xyz Jan olieslagers (talk) 20:42, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Had a try, thanks. If you get nothing, I failed the assignment! :) DBaK (talk) 22:44, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Also ... nosey Q time ... which instrument(s) are you an amateur on, and when you say Fado are you including Mariza???? Cheers DBaK (talk) 20:27, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

instruments are mainly the chromatic accordion, and a little bit of electric bass; plus recorder flutes, and a few more. As for the fado in general and Mariza in particular, I don't think this is the right place to discuss them :) Would go better over a glass of tinto. Jan olieslagers (talk) 20:42, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Most discussions do!! DBaK (talk) 22:44, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

August music

story · music · places

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) 15:02, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

... and a third, like 22 July but with interview and the music to be played today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:21, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary 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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:35, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about education, 10 years OTD after lecturing our founder). Music for today's feast is Monteverdi's, 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) 20:32, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

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) 13:44, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Help? My story today is about a woman, nominated for RD but needing support as I write this. A composer died whose article is long and mostly unreferenced. And some articles open for review, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:21, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Today is the birthday of Alma Mahler. I believe that Siegfried Lorenz should be mentioned on the Main page among the Recent deaths. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:59, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

... and he appeared! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:20, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

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Mandell Creighton

What ho! I see you've contributed to his article recently, and so I make so bold as to invite you to the peer review I've just opened. Hope to see much from you. Tim riley talk 16:13, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Tim, lovely to hear from you. I shall try to look in and see how the lovely man is doing. Cheers, DBaK (talk) 16:51, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Shambles, Shepton Mallet

Thank you very much for your edits to this article and for making me laugh! Stationery v stationary - "No, I saw it move! Watch ... there it goes again ...". Very good. Thanks again, Gricharduk (talk) 04:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you for the lovely message. It's one of those things about which I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet and I do sometimes get a bit silly with the edit summaries – I'm delighted that you got it and didn't mind! Cheers DBaK (talk) 10:36, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

September music

story · music · places

And he appeared! What do you think of my short version of the life of Alexander Goehr? Our DYK team would probably want to mention that he worked in a training kibbutz, while I was happy to include a link to an article by Brian Boulton, - we sang the Monteverdi Vespers on 1 September 2019. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:21, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Recommended reading today: Frye Fire, by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:03, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey DBaK. Hope you are well. I heard some of the Herb on the Proms tonight and I thought about you: Timeless! (marimba - Julius Wechter) Martinevans123 (talk) 21:20, 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. --Gerda Arendt (talk)

Happier about Bach's cantata on the Main page on its 300th birthday (per calendar), my story (again)! What an opening! Amazing traverso part throughout the cantata! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Gerda – I must go and listen! I am always shocked by how few of the cantatas I really know, so it is a good opportunity to learn. Cheers, DBaK (talk) 08:05, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

I didn't know that gem until now, - we just keep learning. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

@Martinevans123 Hi Martin! I'm OK thanks ...some health stuff being a slight drag but nothing too spectacular! Hope all is well with you. Ah, Herb! I do, quite seriously, owe him for some of my earliest and nicest playing experiences. What a star. I shall check the video, thanks. DBaK (talk) 08:09, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah, that's good to know. Herb's hits were a real ray of sunshine. It was different pop world back then! Martinevans123 (talk) 08:22, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh that thing! Sheesh. My big band did a lockdown version of it ... you know, all that sending-in-the-bits thing? Eeee them were t'days. I think I may have taken a few liberties with the lead trumpet part ... product not process, an ting. If no-one knows whether or not there is a cat in the box editing the video, etc etc DBaK (talk) 19:27, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Ha! A cat playing trumpet in a box, maybe?? That's pretty cool! Scat Cat 123 (talk) 20:15, 11 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), - talking about ray of sunshine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:40, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

My story today is about a man who played jazz when it was banned by the Nazis, - you can listen to how they played it later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

My story today features a pic I took from my position in the choir, I can also offer varied delightful music, some from Venice, also with pics I took, - note the rose in the clarinet ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:40, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

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