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June music
Today's story is about the TFA, by sadly missed Vami_IV. In my support in 2018, I hoped to do justice to Schloss Köthen next - which I will begin today, finally, promised. Its Bachsaal was pictured to begin this year year. For more related thoughts and music, look on my talk for 1 June. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:25, 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) 21:41, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Lovely, lovely! Thank you. SusunW (talk) 14:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! - It didn't make it to the Main page because they argued that we can't run it on the First Sunday after Trinity because it was 11 Jun in 1724. - But Franz Kafka "made it", having died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 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. The new ones include the rainiest so far. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:33, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The wallpaper behind that piano is exquisite. Would that your rain would come this way. That obelisk looking building in the rain makes me long for dark clouds. (Only for a day or two to cool it down. In general, sunny weather is my preference.) Demetz story is fascinating indeed. SusunW (talk) 18:50, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The "wallpaper" are frescoes from the 16th century. Come some day and see yourself. All tourists were taken to the place until they closed for renovation, and I somehow missed it reopening. It was Graham's idea who found that and many other treasures on the internet, and came all the way from Perth. - Did I miss a link to the EZB? They do guided tours, but less interesting when you are born blind. - Another interesting person: Alexander Lang. Wish we knew about the four important women in his life, not just Katja Paryla and Annette Reber. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:31, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Someday I might. One never knows. East Germany is hard. I've written a couple of women from there and finding records was nigh on to impossible from here. SusunW (talk) 13:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Understand. I began one, and plan the other. Many sources for their partner/spouse will have info about them. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * There's less about the other. - 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) 14:34, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Today was a very struggling day. Barometric pressure off the charts. Little ability to work or focus. But at 16:15 the rain came. What joy! What wonderment. I still feel like I am on an airplane and the pressure in my ears is crazy, but it is cooler, my plants are happy and I am going out to just stand in the rain. SusunW (talk) 22:40, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * the rain!!! - Today's story is about a performance I watched in 2012 and made a DYK hook in 2017, and my 2012 prediction that we met a great singer was right ;) - if you have more time to read, there's a new GA, Cecelia Hall, and the de:Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine on the German Hauptseite, - both topics were stories before. + new pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * And it's been lovely. Normal rainy season - about 17:00 each night rain rolls in for about an hour or two. That first day, temps dropped from 41 to 28 in the space of two hours. It's been 25 - 35 ever since. Love the photos, especially the poppies. Hall's story is interesting, thanks for sharing it. SusunW (talk) 14:07, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! - 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) 16:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I love Bach! Lovely piece. How in the world did a nutria arrive in Germany? I've seen them, they are typically in South America, whereas here we have more Pacas and Agoutis. In Belize, "gibnut" (a paca) is known as the royal rat and is a delicacy. SusunW (talk) 17:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! - I couldn't talk to the animal which was busy grazing. - 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) 14:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
 * We have a baby o'possum. It seems so odd to me to live in the middle of a major city and have 'possums, but the mother has apparently always lived in our gardening shed, and periodically she has a litter. My cats completely ignore the 'possums and iguanas in our yard; perhaps they figure they were there first. The one we've seen is adorable. Only about the size of my fist but his tail is twice as long as his body and his nose is pink. We call him Opie. I tried to take a picture of him last night climbing the window bars, but too much rain and glare. Love the flowers, foxglove and cornflower are not something we have here. SusunW (talk) 14:52, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Would love to see Opie. (In German, Opi is what a child might say addressing a granddad.) - Thank you for improving article quality in June! - Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:52, 20 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) 14:18, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The rains coming is always a curse and a blessing. It breaks the heat, yay, but then one discovers all the leaks where the heat had baked the impermeable membrane on the roof to the point of flaking off, which cannot be fixed until it stops raining again. So for the last 2 days, we've had no internet, intermittent power, a game of moving pots. I am very behind, but all is well. SusunW (talk) 14:37, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and please don't feel pressure to respond! - 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) 19:53, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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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) 12:41, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Interesting piece. Never heard of him or Alma. Thanks for helping me to learn something. All the blue flowers are gorgeous. Battening down the hatches. Early hurricane season taking off. We expect landfall perhaps on Friday. SusunW (talk) 14:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * You support what someone just said about readers not knowing the guy who invented 12-tone system. Alma had a cute limerick DYK (not by me), and was topic of a Rheingau Musik Festival concert last year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:50, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Lovely, lovely. SusunW (talk) 17:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you - such an unusual piece, treating Gregorian chant just like the chorales. - 3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021 which was about a woman ;) - 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. - Yesterday, I found an abundance of chanterelles in our forest, enough to select some day by day, - never seen anything like it here in decades, - pics to come. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Me, I'm not on much right now. Beryl's trajectory is changing daily. First report was it would hit south of Campeche. Yesterday, closer to Mérida. Today between the two. Trying to prepare for the worst, and hoping for the best. Friends in Barbados say it was really, really bad. A few more things to prepare today and then just wait it out. Friday will tell the tale. SusunW (talk) 14:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hoping with you! - Beryl was a topic in a German quiz meeting yesterday, DYK? (heard on the phone by someone who attended) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Still hoping! 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 and who was a pioneer of in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * How was 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, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making - any reviews, perhaps?). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * After all the preparations and stress, it ended up being just a soft gentle rain here. We were very fortunate, as so much damage occurred in the Caribbean and is occurring in Texas. That said, while we didn't lose power or internet during the crisis, we lost internet from Sunday through Monday, so once again, I am very behind in my work. I'll try to read through your links. SusunW (talk) 15:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Relief! - Found a bit more. Today's story is about her, which is a sad story in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:01, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, sad at the end but she certainly had a full and interesting life. SusunW (talk) 14:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, sad that she died, but what I meant is that the lead ended at 1988, ignoring that she had five great years with her orchestra from 1990, but then had to leave the people and direct a new group from abroad. Did you listen to her playing? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:47, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for explaining. Yes, I listened. Interesting piece. SusunW (talk) 18:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 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) 20:00, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Love the piece. Cannot imagine why it mentions Satan, as the music itself does not seem chaotic or sinister. Also the butterfly on the thistle and the little deer are lovely. SusunW (talk) 14:31, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Baroque language became perhaps more alien to our times than that of 200 years earlier, but seems to have inspired Bach as it was, while for the c. 40 other chorale cantatas the lyrics for the inner stanzas was "modernized". - The dancer is 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) 12:25, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Mozart to me usually sounds full of pomp and ceremony. This one makes me picture a grand hall full of lots of people doing some sort of ceremonial presentation. The Offenbach video is interesting. Don't understand the words, but the keyboard was reversed, i.e. white keys black and black keys white on the harpsichord? Nice tribute to Kondratyeva. SusunW (talk) 14:44, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * She's my story today. What would you suggest for a DYK? Don't miss video ;) - Interesting what you say about Mozart because for me, he's rather for and about the individual soul, listen to Dove sono. On harpsichords, the black&white arrangement is normal. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I would suggest DYK be avoided. Honestly I am no good at coming up with hooks. I miss Yoninah. The video was lovely. She indeed floats. Listened to Dove sono, still seems like it is a grand production. Perhaps because opera is also theatrical? SusunW (talk) 13:42, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I do DYK for the subjects (again, after having avoided it last year). - Yesterday I listened in concert to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, with Sabine Meyer: a delight, and very intimate (yt with same people). - 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) 10:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for improving article quality in July! - 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) 12:04, 20 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Love his work! Actually I prefer black and white photos to color. They are far more interesting IMO. Yesterday I wrote about a woman who retired as a librarian, then bought and the ran a marina and wrote books for another 20 years. Today, if I can find the sources, I'm going to start to write her grandmother's story. SusunW (talk) 14:19, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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