User talk:Gerda Arendt - Wikipedia

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my story today:

3 October · concert Casals Forum Bruch: Violin Concerto Schubert: Symphony No. 8 Guido Sant'Anna, violin Frankfurt Radio Symphony Anna Handler, cond.

30 September · concert Elbphilharmonie Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 Ligeti: Lux aeterna NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Kent Nagano

29 September · concert St. Johanniskirche, Harburg Bach: Mass in B minor Harburger Kantorei Ensemble HanseBarock Constanze Kowalski (cond.)

I made two cards for the transition from 2023 to 2024:

A little child, a little lamb, on a backdrop of war and death: hoping for more peace in 2024! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

These were my "stories" on 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2023. If you want to follow a daily sentence throughout the year, use {{User Gerda Arendt/Top}}, and for the calendar pictures and the music of the year, see User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2024. Let's stay inspired and connected. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

2024 is the anniversary of the Achtliederbuch, the first Lutheran hymnal of 500 years ago, and - possibly related - Bach's cycle of Chorale cantatas 300 years ago. His works and the chorales on which they are based will be a focus for 2024. Ongoing are locations that played a role in my life, recent deaths, music heard and sung, composers, gardens. Watch my user page for articles, done in collaboration. Compare 2023 for the amazing number of users who began and expanded articles. Thanks also to reviewers, and I do plan to review more and write less, and in writing, focus more on quality than the little daily article.

2024 talk begins at #Have a happy New Year, Gerda!, 2024 calender pics and musical events begin here, and the 2024 diary of my own pictures of places, songs, food, flowers ... will come here, - just watch those lists if you are interested.

My talk goes like this: on top there's the "story" related to the day. Below are three boxes, often one for people remembered and two for musical experiences, performing or listening. In these boxes, topics related to the top story and topics featured on the Main page appear bold. Right here you see the image of the month with songs of the month, typically related to meetings with friends who gave them to me. I archive from time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:35, 1 January 2024 (UTC) - updated order --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Belated Christmas greetings and happy new year. I have not sent my usual greetings this season. Coordinator work, preparing a talk for January 2 and real life have me quite busy. I just took better notice of User:Gerda Arendt/Stories. As always, this is another great contribution to the project by you. Donner60 (talk) 22:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Donner60, and all the best for 2024! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Dear Gerda, I apologize for not replying to your thoughtful messages. December is usually a busy month for me; this one has been even more so, much of it because of my own doing! But I wanted to let you know that I did read them and that it means very much to me that you took the trouble to think of me, despite my occasional irascibility. (Within me the patrimony of my hot-blooded Italian forebears are ever in conflict with the expressive austerity of my Basque ancestors!) Thank you for everything that you do on here. My sincerest wishes to you for good health and much joy in 2024! :) —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 21:43, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your personal expression, and have a good curry time in 2024 - brief, off to the village fireworks to come. I just finished my pics of 2023, and it was a good harvest, in the end of many Christmas trees, angels, high water and a flaming sky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:38, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Netherzone, thank you for a lovely start in the new year, - see my "response" (written before I went to bed).

Thank you for the personal greeting, and it's all my pleasure, MyCatIsAChonk. Igor and I. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Make the music and keep up the good work! Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 15:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Peter, for coming over! Same to you! - I try. What do you think of my question here? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Gerda, Just to wish you a Happy New Year and to say that I'm retiring from Wikipedia after a good innings. Thank you for your encouragement and cheerfulness! I will still be contactable via my talk page and have said I'm happy to answer questions there too. Bless you Bermicourt (talk) 18:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, sad to see you go, but do what's best for you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm considering contributing to German Wikipedia instead, but conscious I'm not a native speaker so will need to up my game! Maybe I'll see you there! :) Bermicourt (talk) 17:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Fine, - ping me when you create something to be reviewed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Rosie, that's very original and touching! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wonderful to see this on the main page after the wait! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 17:15, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

About time. Article begun in May, meant to appear with the Abel Fest in June. Then we missed his birthday on 22 December. I wanted it with the image, for various reasons,

but this is better than nothing. - What do you think of the nom for Anna Nekhames? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

1. Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel 5 Jan
2. Ryland Davies 9 Jan
3. Kihwan Sim 12 Jan
4. Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst 15 Jan
5. Thomas Fritzsch 16 Jan
6. St. Joseph, Wedding 20 Jan
7. Vivi Vassileva 21 Jan
8. St. Martin, Oestrich 25 Jan
9. Shalom chaverim 25 Jan
10. Anna Nekhames 26 Jan
11. Stephen Gould (tenor) 7 Feb
12. Tamara Milashkina 20 Feb
13. Caspar Richter 3 Mar
14. Cecelia Hall 23 Mar
15. Kelsey Lauritano 26 Mar
16. Florian Ludwig 26 Mar
17. Karsten Januschke 29 Mar
18. Tilmann Köhler 5 Apr
19. Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine 30 Apr
20. Magdalena Hinterdobler 10 May
21. Liviu Holender 22 May
22. St. Trinitatis, Wolfenbüttel 26 May
23. Samuel Kummer 30 May
24. Peter Demetz 5 Jun
25. Daniela Kerck 25 Jun
26. Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) 1 Jul
27. Gerhard Klingenberg 23 Jul
28. Sarah Gibson 8 Aug
29. Leonhard Kaiser 16 Aug
30. Oedipus 26 Aug
31. Jerzy Artysz 28 Aug
32. Tilman Michael 14 Sep
33. Maryvonne Le Dizès 3 Oct

Thank you, PFHLai, for the first of the year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

For more detail see Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:30, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

1. Hermann Baumann (musician) - PFHLai (talk) 5 Jan
2. Chris Karrer - Stephen 9 Jan
3. Tamara Milashkina - PFHLai (talk) 17 Jan
4. Romuald Twardowski - Stephen 20 Jan
5. Ewa Podleś - Stephen 24 Jan
6. Gerd Uecker - Stephen 26 Jan
7. Oskar Negt - Stephen 7 Feb
8. Helga Paris - Stephen 12 February
9. Seiji Ozawa - Spencer^T•C 12 Feb
10. Alfred Grosser - Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 11 Feb
11. Ladislav Burlas - Stephen 19 Feb
12. Rudolf Jansen - PFHLai (talk) 19 Feb
13. Johanna von Koczian - PFHLai (talk) 17 Feb
14. Ira von Fürstenberg - Stephen 24 Feb
15. Gabriela Grillo - Stephen 2 Mar
16. Françoise Garner - PFHLai (talk) 13 Mar
17. Guy Touvron - PFHLai (talk) 15 Mar
18. Aribert Reimann - Stephen 19 Mar
19. Maurizio Pollini - – robertsky (talk) 28 Mar
20. Peter Eötvös - Tone 30 Mar
21. Günther Leib - PFHLai (talk) 28 Mar
22. Judith Hemmendinger - Stephen 31 Mar
23. Hans Joachim Meyer - Stephen 5 Apr
24. Notker Wolf - PFHLai (talk) 8 Apr
25. Gerhard Lohfink - Stephen 9 Apr
26. Kalevi Kiviniemi - Stephen 9 Apr
27. Michael Boder - PFHLai (talk) 13 Apr
28. Dieter Rexroth - PFHLai (talk) 15 Apr
29. Joe Viera - Amakuru (talk) 15 Apr
30. Lorenzo Palomo - Stephen 18 Apr
31. Andrew Davis - Spencer^T•C 22 Apr
32. Samuel Kummer - – robertsky (talk) 28 Apr
33. Peter Demetz - Spencer^T•C 6 May
34. Gerhard Müller - PFHLai (talk) 15 May
35. Willi Brokmeier - Ad Orientem (talk) 25 May
36. Rolf-Ernst Breuer - Schwede66 29 May
37. Hugues Gall - PFHLai (talk) 2 Jun
38. Alexander Lang - Schwede66 5 Jun
39. Jürgen Moltmann - Schwede66 10 Jun
40. Éric Tappy - Stephen 18 Jun
41. Gerhard Klingenberg - Stephen 23 Jun
42. Jodie Devos - PFHLai (talk) 23 Jun
43. Margarita Voites - Spencer^T•C 28 Jun
44. Lothar Gall - Spencer^T•C 28 Jun
45. Lando Bartolini - Stephen 3 Jul
46. Martti Wallén - PFHLai (talk) 6 Jul
47. Liana Isakadze - Spencer^T•C 11 Jul
48. Marina Kondratyeva - PFHLai (talk) 15 Jul
49. Ruth Hesse - Stephen 18 Jul
50. Thomas Hoepker - DanCherek (talk) 18 Jul
51. Sarah Gibson - Stephen 22 Jul
52. April Cantelo - Stephen 22 Jul
53. Elena Mauti Nunziata - Spencer^T•C 25 Jul
54. Jerzy Artysz - PFHLai (talk) 28 Jul
55. Eugene Sârbu - PFHLai (talk) 29 Jul
56. Wolfgang Rihm - PFHLai (talk) 30 Jul
57. Jürgen Ahrend - PFHLai (talk) 6 Aug
58. Antônio Meneses - PFHLai (talk) 6 Aug
59. Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez - Stephen 11 Aug
60. Celestina Casapietra - Stephen 15 Aug
61. Kasper König - Schwede66 16 Aug
62. Christof Nel - Spencer^T•C 19 Aug
63. Maryvonne Le Dizès - Stephen 27 Aug
64. Siegfried Lorenz (baritone) - Spencer^T•C 31 Aug
65. Alexander Goehr - – robertsky (talk) 14:24, 1 Sep
66. Friedrich Schorlemmer - PFHLai (talk) 14 Sep
67. Caterina Valente - Stephen 17 Sep
68. Beppe Menegatti - PFHLai (talk) 22 Sep
69. Benny Golson - Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 27 Sep
70. Norbert Lohfink - Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 27 Sep
71. Michael Sladek - Schwede66 1 Oct

The article Macht hoch die Tür you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Macht hoch die Tür for comments about the article, and Talk:Macht hoch die Tür/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Schminnte -- Schminnte (talk) 22:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

1. Macht hoch die Tür - Schminnte (talk) 8 Jan
2. Stephen Gould (tenor) - MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 18 Jan
3. Ryland Davies - Utopes (talk) 27 Feb
4. Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 - MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 13 Apr
5. Magdalena Hinterdobler - MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 4 Jun
6. Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano) - 750h+ (talk) 14 Jun
7. Tamara Milashkina - Viriditas (talk) 3 Jul
8. Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178 · 750h+ 30 Jul
9. Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101 · 750h+ (talk) 14 Aug
10. Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 · 750h+ (talk) 7 Sep
11. Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 - 750h+ 30 Sep

  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:45, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

• Gerda, perhaps if you started out every hook with "Did you know ... that Narutolovehinata5 is very important ... and also [insert hook here]. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Seconding @Netherzone here. I didn't see the post in time to oppose vehemently. But I love what you bring to all areas, especially talk pages since that's where I frequently see you @Gerda Arendt. Thanks for always sharing your passions with us. Star Mississippi 17:59, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello Gerda. I would just want you to know that I am very sorry for the ANI discussion I started earlier. I had been having some real-life stress lately and it felt like it may have affected my feelings on-wiki. I'm very sorry for the attitude I have shown you over the past few weeks. I very much appreciate your efforts on Wikipedia and your dedication to the project even if we disagree on many things, and I just want to let you know that despite everything that has happened you are still an editor I admire and respect. You are a net positive to DYK and while we may disagree on views, what we can agree on is that your articles are very informative and a net good to the project. Again, I am sorry for what I have done. Rest assured that regardless of our differences I support your efforts on Wikipedia to improve our coverage on classical music and Germany. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:46, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

I woke up thinking Joy to the world. I tried to bring joy, it's turned into trivia, and I'm accused of bad faith. Travelling now, no time to even look. Before looking, I can't tell if I can accept apologies, which may may be tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Narutolovehinata5, still today, I'm on a train, the train has a connection (all things that can't be taken for granted): apologies for attitude accepted, but I hope that it really will change, because I felt it becoming a danger to diversity of information and freedom of speech. For those unfamiliar with the situation: we escalated over the hook for Kihwan Sim, which was replaced in prep against my protest. That hook should not run, it's a triviality said about a living person who deserves merit for specific achievements. - I looked at the thread and found some gems of support there that I will place in my "blushing" cabinet, - thank you, all! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

This is not an indictment of Naruto but like others on the AN/I thread I have found that Wikipedia seems to have become more hostile. I suppose one could surmise at least somewhat that it is born out of necessity. We appear to live at a time where I feel my thoughts on life and the way I wish to live life are going the way of faeries and dragons. Nobody cares, love is fleeting, and civility and affording basic human respect are more centered on your position in relation to mine rather than the fact you are a fellow human being. The cruelty is not AN/I or Naruto's position. The cruelty is everything that has led up to it. People are becoming less nice and we are told it is normal, discussions less civil but we are told to accept it. Where is the empathy?

Gerda, you are a blessing and so precious, my friend. I said it after we first met and I maintain that yours is one the brightest lights I have been so fortunate to meet here. Keep singing, keep shining, keep being you. --ARoseWolf 13:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

   ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:52, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Birthday of Mozart and our conductor:

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

—Ganesha811 (talk) 02:08, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Finally, good to see him at DYK! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 11:53, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

yes, thank you for noticing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Every time I visit your pages I end up having to learn about a lovely new cantata! Thank you so much for all your work. It's BWV 22 right now – what a gorgeous thing, despite the tragic lack of trumpets.

I have a personally busy time coming up with Bach and some other guy called Handel and some other other guy called Telemann. Should be fun.

Cheers!! DBaK (talk) 19:56, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Cheers back, listening right now to an opera by the Handel guy (Poro) which Telemann presented as Cleofida in Hamburg in 1732 adding marches he must have enjoyed writing. German recitatives. Never heard. Delightful. - You don't have to come to my page as long you have "story" in a box by me ;) - Our Bach endeavour will be three cantatas!!! 5 May, - come over, plenty of trumpets in BWV 11 ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Dear Gerda, thanks for your greeting, which I warmly reciprocate. I have stepped back from wp for the past few months, partly because of pressures at home (caring for supercentenarian mother). But you rightly diagnose the local cause of inactivity and I will strive to take your precious advice to heart. Thanks for noticing, and very best wishes for 2024. So sorry about Seiji Ozawa. Eebahgum (talk) 14:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! - I thank Ozawa personally two (mostly) unforgettable matinees in Tanglewood (where children under 5 were not welcome for the concerts, but the dress rehearsals), of Haydn's Die Schöpfung, choir all in white and singing from memory, "Und eine neue Welt" (And a new world) of unearthly lightness, and a Mozart piano concerto with Mitsuko Uchida (forgot which, forgot rest of the program) when all the birds under the roof of the Shed began chirping when the piano entered, and remember how she smiled. - I thank Christoph Eschenbach for a great Verdi Requiem at the same place, and could do so in person after a concert of Bruckner's Sixths, saying that I liked it very much (and it had been 12 years earlier), and he smiled and said "Ich auch". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Uchida held us breathless at Snape Maltings a few years ago with a solo concert of the three final Beethoven sonatas. It seems somehow improper to comment on such a comprehensively personal and dynamically brilliant exposition, but we certainly felt the warmth of the pedalling building the whole conception. It was terrific Beethoven! Your mention of the chirping birds reminds me of an open air evening concert in the Forum in Rome back in 1977 - it was Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and every time the horns came in, all the wild cats that live in the Forum responded by yowling together in a loud chorus after a moment's delay. Whether they liked it or not I don't know, but it touched something in their souls, for the effect came back a couple of times as if it had been written into Sonata Form. Happy cats! Eebahgum (talk) 01:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Dear Gerda, it's such a pleasure to hear from you -- a most welcome antidote to the ambitions, rivalries, and animosities ubiquitous at Wikipedia as elsewhere in this human-inhabited world. Nihil novi (talk) 07:13, 17 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Such a nice thing to read when waking up! If you want to hear from me monthly, join WP:QAI, and if you want to hear from me daily use {{User Gerda Arendt/Top}} (which is easier). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 17 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

My story was different, mentioning the Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Listen to my next subject singing Tchaikovsky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Moving Grimes2 (talk) 16:20, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for this treat! (How is it that you know what I like?) Viriditas (talk) 19:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

You like what I like. Thank you for coming over. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thankyou for the Tchaikowsky "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" (Nyet, tolko tot menya). You were lucky to hear such a performance live. I like the old Melodiya version by Sergei Lemeshev (his alluring measure and sweetness) but of course quite a different affair to your singer's noble account. Why is it (language aside) that Tchaikowsky's setting never really feels like Goethe? Is it Russian pessimism colliding with echt German Welt-angst? Do the Russian lyrics really render the same words? In the English versions, "None but the desolate" beats "None but the lonely heart", but both are entirely inadequate: you don't get that resonance of the desolate individual such as you also have in "Wer nie sein Brot mit Thränen aß..."Eebahgum (talk) 13:02, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

(I saw her on stage but with completely different music, and as Suzuki, Cherubino and Paolo.) I can't tell for the Russian, but know that some German words and probably concepts have no true expression in English, and "Sehnsucht" is one of them. Music, however, is much more internationally understood. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

These came in response to my message:

The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago).

Yesterday I learned that a friend suddenly died; we both belonged to a group that traveled once a year for decades, and I remember her vivid talk last summer, same voice and sparkle as when we met. Her song for me was Take the "A" Train, sung by Ella Fitzgerald. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

The image pictures hope. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Seele, vergiß sie nicht --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:41, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Today is her birthday. Once we went to St. Stephan together, after meeting for good food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for all the work you do on Wikipedia, from ITN to all your contributions to various topics such as churches, women, and German articles. It is hard workers like you that help to improve the project, and are an inspiration to many who want to also continually improve the project as well. Cheers, atque supra! Fakescientist8000 17:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

It is a pleasure to expand knowledge, and double so when recognized, - thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:27, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, blushing, - I try, look above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:40, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

is a rare birthday:

-- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:02, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

please continue to leave messages at my talk page where you are always welcome. I may not respond every time but I do follow the links. Your messages are uplifting and encouraging. You are PRECIOUS to me. --ARoseWolf 18:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

I love that, thank you for the unexpected visit: I thought you were gone for weeks --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:37, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

I can never tell. I may be able to log in for days in a row and then be away for weeks. I was off for a week and came back for several days and was gone again for several more recently. I will have to take a couple of weeks in March at the very least. --ARoseWolf 18:49, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

The flowers photographed last year on the island of Madeira became a symbol for missing Vami_IV. They are connected to another stay on the island. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Any ideas for Easter hooks? Lightburst (talk) 23:20, 28 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for asking. No, sorry, not this year. I have four nominations for people who recently died, two are open, - that kept me busy. What I wanted was Bach's St John Passion for OTD tomorrow, first performed on Good Friday 1724, but I was reverted claiming that OTD can't go by feast but only by date, so it would have to be 7 April. Impossible. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

I remember listening to the performance live, early in the lockdown, the festival cancelled when it had be scheduled to be performed ... He has it in #2 in his media, preceded by Tristis est anima mea. - He will sing Bach with us in May, Ascension Oratorio. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 29 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

I listen now on radio to the St John Passion from the Berliner Philharmonie, with the RIAS Kammerchor, Evangelist beginning, - teaser, broadcast. - I uploaded the images from 17 March, beginning with a "bloody" morning sky and ending with a procession of a figure of Jesus carrying the Cross, with a wind band and drums. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:22, 29 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Remembering Easter 300 years ago continues: Bach revived for for his first Easter as Thomaskantor in Leipzig a masterpiece from his early career, his first chorale cantata, and how different from those to come a few weeks after this. - Per chance, I received the YouTube link today from the conductor who just uploaded it to mark the occasion. I sang with the Idsteiner Solisten several times but not in that performance. You can follow the music! - I also uploaded more images, from a tropical garden and a famous nearby church. Happy Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:55, 31 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

... and the following day, Leipzig could listen to "exhilarating" music which we performed in 2000, with great joy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 1 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, and also to you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, lovely! - I confess that I hoped to see Gerhard Lohfink recognised for recent deaths, - everybody: please see if you could support that, WP:ITNN#RD: Gerhard Lohfink. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:09, 9 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

This was the music and memory section on 9 April: arms raised, while Marian Anderson's concert was remembered and Hildegard of Bingen's Physica reflected, - joy to the world! We see the "rock abbot" with his band, a church designed by some of the handicapped using it, and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine led by the inspiring Oksana Lyniv. Don't miss the Halleluja video ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, I had to look it up, though (while I had met Dobostorte in Budapest). Listening to Marian Anderson's "Tremble" yesterday was a revelation I wanted to share. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

The article Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 for comments about the article, and Talk:Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MyCatIsAChonk -- MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 11:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Dear Gerda, Thankyou for your several kind and cheerful messages over the past couple of months. In case you are wondering, I have not slipped off this mortal coil, at least not yet, but have for various reasons given myself a rest from wp. For one thing I am terribly busy with my supercentenarian Mum whose daily needs for attention are many - for another, I have a progressing series of ailments of my own, including Parkinson's, which keep me feeling fairly grotty - but, most influentially, since my last editing efforts, I have a sense of complete futility at editing here when confronted with the sort of criticisms and condescension which provoked my last long reply on my talk page. I haven't got the stomach to rise to the bait. However I am still here and still watching. Eebahgum (talk) 08:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, and no, I grant every friend long silences ;) - best wishes for you and your mother! Please keep reading - I provide my daily stories thinking of people like you. I was in the performance mentioned today (with trailer), - in 2018 DYK made that possible, but 2024 is a different troupe. I carry my load of condescension (see above) but it doesn't keep me from proclaiming the miracle that music is. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 19 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Another singer at DYK, and an excellent one at that! I find the subject of the hook interesting, even if it did require an extensive fight. The anti-opera DYK reviewers are quick to the draw... MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 01:05, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! In the end, we have a hook with five composers! The opera by a composer banned by the Nazis appeared with his partner on stage who will sing her songs on 28 May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

This was the story. I am happy that all six composers mentioned, even the unlinked Verdi, received views around 1k or higher. I believe that it is a myth that our audience isn't interested in such things. Thanks to Mary Mark Ockerbloom who bravely approved the hook.

As it happens, today's story is about singing in defiance ;) - look and listen! - Ten years ago, I worded the hook that appeared OTD, and I quoted from the hymn - together with a pointer to Kafka - already in my response to the 2013 arbitration decision, in the same mood of singing in defiance. I still stand and sing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 23 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Today's TFA is Ludwigsburg Palace, written by Vami_IV. I miss lines such as (from the FAC)

I gave the lead a can of spinach and it seems to have bulked up pretty good. ... –♠Vami_IV†♠ 18:17, 3 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

The Ludwigsburg Festival begins there today, and looking for a sample, I found the opening concert of 2022, for peace, Oksana Lyniv from Ukraine conducting Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, with pianist Iddo Bar-Shai from Israel, and Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Better than words. Roses of missing. Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 1 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

The article Magdalena Hinterdobler you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Magdalena Hinterdobler for comments about the article, and Talk:Magdalena Hinterdobler/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MyCatIsAChonk -- MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 21:04, 4 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

You're truly a gem, wow! The warmth and generosity you bring to Wikipedia oozes through every interaction I see you're involved, even though we haven't spoken directly. Your encouraging words to others are a beacon that guides and inspires me in this project. Your presence here is a lifeline, truly. Keep shining your light – it's making a difference. Warmest regards, Vanderwaalforces (talk) 20:11, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

blushing - thank you, nice to meet you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:14, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Same here! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 20:35, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

The hook was changed to mention at least the title. It's still without any hint at the character of work. Read, listen find out. Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:14, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

2 July, Visitation, was the 300th anniversary of Bach's chorale cantata on a Gregorian chant (a contradiction in terms but he made it work), Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10.

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) 19:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

(copied from the talk of the user who brought Janáček to GA.)

Hi Gerda . I scrolled through your page of stories and I must say ... your choice, variety and variability of topics, overall beauty and aesthetic of your contributions is so close to my heart like nothing else on Wikipedia. I'm sending you my favourite and most beautiful piece from On an Overgrown Path, it's performed by lesser known but excellent Jan Jiraský, who connects very well the lyrical expression and urgent or maybe even anxious rhythmical contradiction present in many of Janáček's works in one moment. Enjoy and ... be well. Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 08:42, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

blushing - thank you for understanding! I listened with joy! The closest I came to Janáček was singing the Glagolitic Mass in choir, understanding how his music is language-driven and so expressive. Seeing the Vixen (not cunning, not little) in Munich was also great. - I added a few images, - keep looking at story music places, - for example today's music matching the Italian tenor of the story. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:38, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

The article Tamara Milashkina you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Tamara Milashkina for comments about the article, and Talk:Tamara Milashkina/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Viriditas -- Viriditas (talk) 22:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the review, Viriditas, I learned a lot! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

blushing: thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 30 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

… dear fellow bach-lover! I would also like to share some insightful letters from Lenny entitled “THE MUSIC OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH”: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/bernstein/education/2023778749/2023778749-1/. Indeed we shall work hard make sure people have equal and easy access to bach (and all great works).

Hym3242 (talk) 09:09, 30 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, - one cantata on the Main page right now ;) - also three people who made music, a baritone, a violinist and a composer - look around! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 30 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Dear Gerda Arendt,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards,

— The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:42, 2 August 2024 (UTC)¡Reply

Thank you both, - a nice reminder of the day I remember well, when I found a friend's name as a red link and began his article, deleted within minutes ;) - I feel grown up since, and want to mark the day by a FAC for a song I love, and a GAN for a Bach cantata approaching its 300th anniversary. The Main page is graced by three musicians whose articles I improved (at least was so when the day began). If you want to celebrate with me, read their articles, or any listed on top of this page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Congratulation, Gerda. Grimes2 (talk) 10:51, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, also for improving articles together! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

yesterday's program --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:10, 3 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

... and today is the 15th anniversary of my first DYK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 22 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Schwede66 01:51, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for creating this article memorializing a composer and congratulations for a very speedy and timely DYK. —  AjaxSmack  17:49, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Ajax, it feels good to be understood. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

The article Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101 you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101 for comments about the article, and Talk:Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of 750h+ -- 750h+ (talk) 09:02, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, blushing again! You have an amazing way to look and phrase, thank you for that also! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 16 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your words light up my day! Thank you for the sweet compliment. Blushing right back at you! UnKnownrNone (talk) 08:03, 16 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's nice that he gets exposure - after having worked on the article for days - without me calling for attention ;) - Thanks to Aza24 for professional additions (and trimming)! - Today is also the (liturgical) day of remembering Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 (for which I had no time because of the other) but also the Vespro della Beata Vergine, dedicated by Monteverdi to the Pope 1 September. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:01, 1 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Gerda, could you hold off an a GAN until I get a chance to expand the music section? Also, it looks like the template wasn't processed on the talk page anyways. Aza24 (talk) 21:51, 2 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for planning to do more! Normally it takes months until a GA gets reviewed, - will that be long enough? I guess with an expanded music section, we might even go for FA (but shouldn't bother a GA reviewer with too much detail). - Goehr is still on the Main page, so whatever bits you would add today have a chance to be seen by more people. Raising interest was the key motivation for the nomination ;) (I made a typo but fixed it, as explained. I can hold it off tomorrow if you think that is better.) - He deserves more attention. Compared to others, it was low when he died, got higher with the obits, but was (4k+) moderate yesterday. Tomorrow will be Bruckner's 200 birthday, followed by Schoenberg's 150th on 13 September. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sending out dozens of requests for support at RD is as blatant as canvassing comes. I have already warned you for this behavior. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:52, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Love you Gerda come back soon and be happy. If Wikipedia's bureaucracy is a pickle for you then there is editorial and social support. I appreciate how you support others and make good edits. Bluerasberry (talk) 23:13, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

... a lot archived, in case of interest - not as blatant as it seems to have looked on the surface --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 1 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

In case of interest, a little history of a nomination.

• 20 Aug: news of the death of Maryvonne Le Dizès, no article in English, only one in Russian. No date of death. It didn't take long to find out that she played violin in a highly notable ensemble, ensemble intercontemporain where she even commissioned new compositions, and she taught for a long time: clearly notable. Thank goodness there were refs in English. I went ahead creating an article, but when I was ready to publish I noticed that Rigg had already done that. I merged the articles. 13 editors helped with the article.
• 24 Aug: I nominate the article for the Recent deaths, date 20 Aug (when the news came around). Nominations need to be decided within the week following that date (so by 27 Aug), it's by simple support or oppose, which look at broadness of coverage and diligence of referencing. Usually closing admins want to see three supports and no oppose, but in many cases one support is enough: when the article clearly meets the requirements.
• 25 Aug: the nom received a support.
• 27 Aug: Nothing had happened, I made her my story, in hope, and marked the nomination with "needs attention" - a standard procedure. Nothing happened. I notified the three admins who often had helped me, - no response. You know the rest.

In the future - still hoping a case like this won't come again - I will inform fewer people of a problem and rely on my talk page more, and I will avoid the word "support" and replace it by "review". I urge everybody with a little time at the end of the day to check if there are any nominations needing attention on ITNN. I encourage everybody to follow what is on quoted on the top of Precious:

"grant each other the presumption that we are acting in good faith".

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:50, 7 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Re: "grant each other the presumption that we are acting in good faith". FWIW, Gerda, I don't actually think there is any experienced, well-intentioned editor on WP, including the person who blocked you, who believes you are not acting in good faith. Even when I disagree with you, I am completely convinced you are always acting in good faith. Valereee (talk) 22:03, 7 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the last sentence most of all. Blushing because of course it's too good to be true. I try but I'm no angel ;) - I assume that the block was done in good faith, but I have not yet understood what caused enough offence in requesting help ("Help?)) among a network of friends, project members (QAI, Women in Red, Classical music), people who were found generally helpful in the past, and people who had helped with the article. I don't understand why the words "help" and "support" would trigger a rather strong action without talking before - Today is Tag des offenen Denkmals, - I'll look at our "open monuments with dear people, including Schloss Weilburg. I'll tell you which songs we sang at church much later today. Yesterday's rehearsal was promising, and the concert magnificent. - Enjoy whatever you do! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:04, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

"Support" and "Oppose" are trigger words at RD. Grimes2 (talk) 06:17, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

In the spirit of recommendations above:

• Michael Sladek needs attention on WP:ITNN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 1 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I like sharing places and music. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:30, 5 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's nice to see someone enjoying a stroll in Frankfurt. I've generally been told to avoid it as dull. CMD (talk) 10:54, 5 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I took a Wikipedian on the stroll, and our conversation was so lively and interesting that I forgot to take more pictures ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:58, 5 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

You had me at tasting menu! DBaK (talk) 11:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

The menu seems to be decadent. Grimes2 (talk) 11:54, 5 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I trimmed the display to three - keeping Frankfurt, Eberbach Abbey and the delicious prison food, - thank you for you comments, I felt understood. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 6 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Welcome back!!! DBaK (talk) 10:55, 6 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

The article Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 for comments about the article, and Talk:Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of 750h+ -- 750h+ (talk) 06:42, 7 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

in memory -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:50, 13 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 14 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Aza24 -- Aza24 (talk) 04:42, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I found this cute thing while walking the other day, I thought you'd like it!

I've started Bible college a couple weeks ago and one of the assigned readings, My All for Him by Basilea Schlink really spoke to me, and reminded me of you, actually. I'm not too sure what your beliefs are exactly, but it should not matter in this context; it's all about Jesus here.

Panini! • 🥪 13:26, 18 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, lovely! - share with Rosie! - Jesus my joy is my song of defiance ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:31, 18 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes, interested, thank you for thinking of me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 23 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

--Lajmmoore (talk 08:05, 29 September 2024 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

I have finally nominated the article. Please take a look if you can: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Christianity/archive1. Thank you! Jenhawk777 (talk) 18:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I was too slow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:10, 2 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

on his birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:10, 2 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, it's me of writing about morally questionable dukes fame. My FAC for Infant school has stalled and needs to quickly get more reviews. I was wondering if you would have time to review it over the next few days? Llewee (talk) 18:54, 2 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I will try. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:36, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Some composers who wrote the summary of their life's work. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:36, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Glad that she was accepted for DYK, after a struggle you may want to study. My story today is different because I ran that fact already after she died. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:36, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

The article Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 for comments about the article, and Talk:Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of 750h+ -- 750h+ 12:30, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply