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The Bugle: Issue 217, May 2024
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DYK for Ernest Prestwich
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DYK for Harrogate War Memorial
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Women in Red June 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 07:06, 23 May 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

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. Hassocks 5489 (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
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) --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
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DYK for Charles Verity
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The Bugle: Issue 218, June 2024
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DYK nomination of Frances Darlington
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Women in Red August 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 14:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

July music
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)
 * --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 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)

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DYK for Laura Veale
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