User talk:Gerda Arendt

today

my story

As a principal dancer
of the Stuttgart Ballet
in the John Cranko era,
Ray Barra
created Romeo and Onegin.

watch his choreography
31 March 2025

(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)

music

23 March · Evensong Geistliche Abendmusik Rheinberger: Kyrie Pachelbel: Tröste, tröste uns, Gott Kuhnau/Bach: Der Gerechte kömmt um Pachelbel: Singet dem Herrn Gounod: D'un cœur qui t'aime Johann Christoph Bach: Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf Pachelbel: Nun danket alle Gott · 1997 Bach: St. Matthew Passion

23 March · service St. Gallus, Flörsheim Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr Jesus Christus, Menschensohn Psalm 103 Noch ehe die Sonne am Himmel stand Du, Gott, liebst uns von Ewigkeit

12 December 2024 · concert Konzerthaus Dortmund Bach: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36 Charpentier: Messe de minuit pour Noël Bach: Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110 Praetorius + Distler: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen The Constellation choir and orchestra John Eliot Gardiner

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2025 talk

story · music · places
Je vous salue Marie Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt Schubert: Ave Maria Sunrise, Sunset Greensleeves For the beauty of the earth Mögen sich die Wege Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud

We moved from 2024 to 2025, with new calendar pictures and new music. The topic of Bach's chorale cantatas will keep me busy until 25 March, and then I want to focus on performances more generally, in history and in my experience. You can follow my daily stories, {{User Gerda Arendt/Top}}, often with an image and something to listen to: let's stay inspired and connected. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Ongoing efforts regard 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 2024 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.

2025 calender pics and musical events begin here, and the 2025 diary of my own pictures of places, songs, food, flowers is 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 or more boxes, often one for people remembered and others 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 friends who gave them to me, on their birthdays or when meeting them. I archive from time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

call for collaboration

Isues where I need help, such as reviews:

• Y Jean-Louis Pichon needs attention on WP:ITNN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
• Y Hans Peter Korff now --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:51, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

From 2024

Your GA nomination of Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8

The article Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8 and Talk:Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Aza24 -- Aza24 (talk) 00:24, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Aza24, thank you for the thorough review. I understand that in order to make Bach's chorale cantatas a good topic, this cantata - as part of it - has to be a good article, and I am willing to put work into it to make it so. However, right now I'm working simultaneously on several others with the same goal, and they require less work. I see me getting to serious changes for BWV 8 after the others, which will be in February. (The only one written later, BWV 1, is already a FA.) I'll make small changes now, perhaps today, but will then have to ask if the nom should remain open for longer or be closed and started over when I'm ready. Y'all: any help with this one and the others - making changes or reviewing - is welcome, see above, #calling for collaboration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:06, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Graham87

Did you read Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-12-24/Opinion? With one of your photos: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost. I've already sent him encouraging words. Grimes2 (talk) 11:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

I had no time, thank you for pointing at it. I don't see a photo though. - Ah, in the overview, playing Haydn on Welte-Mignon piano --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:07, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

2025

	Have a happy New Year filled with light!
	Hi Gerda Arendt, Best wishes that the new year brings peace, good health and happiness. Thank you for what you do for the encyclopedia and this community. And a special thanks for sharing music and your lovely photos with me throughout the year. Image: New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji, Utagawa Hiroshige, woodcut, 1857 Netherzone (talk) 15:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, still working on the last cantata for 2024, - will probably come over tomorrow with a photo or more tomorrow, to continue sharing. You can probably guess that the new calendar pics will be at User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2025--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:23, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks in 2024

		The Special Barnstar
		Happy New Year, Gerda Arendt! In 2024, other editors thanked you 1604 times using the thanks tool on the English Wikipedia. This made you the #3 most thanked Wikipedian in 2024. You were also the #2 most thankful Wikipedian in 2024, having used the thanks tool 2777 times. Congratulations and, well, thank you for all that you do for Wikipedia. Here's to 2025! Mz7 (talk) 19:23, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Giving is better than receiving. Happy New Year. Grimes2 (talk) 20:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, great helper all around, for example the latest RD for which I had no time due to real life! - I wonder about the ratio of (lazy) click-thanks to real typed thank-you notes, and hope that I can offer more of the latter kind. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg)

The article Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) for comments about the article, and Talk:Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg)/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 AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:01, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

1. Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) - AirshipJungleman29 - 3 Jan
2. Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113 - Kyle Peake - 11 Jan
3. Alexander Goehr - Simongraham - 19 Jan
4. Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 - Sammi Brie - 27 Jan
5. Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139 · Michael Aurel · 15 Feb
6. Mirella Freni - MSincccc - 24 Mar

ITN recognition for Wilhelm Brückner (luthier)

On 4 January 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Wilhelm Brückner (luthier), which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Tone 13:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles of people who recently died have been a focus from 2019. in 2025, they have been a daily topic, both on the Main page were Helmut Schlesinger appeared from 31 January until 5 January, but also in the daily little articles, with the one exception of a Sunday. Not all of them made it to Main page appearance, but were at least improved. Storye book is great in finding images, MONTENSEM in polishing composers' articles, Thriley in translating to begin articles for people with red links, Grimes2 all around helpful in finding and exploiting references, and several excellent in posting (just look belpw). Anybody can review!

1. Wilhelm Brückner (luthier) - Tone 4 Jan
2. Dada Masilo - Masem - 5 Jan
3. Loretta Di Franco - Masem - 5 Jan
4. Tom Johnson - Spencer - 6 Jan
5. Jean-Michel Defaye - Stephen - 8 Jan
6. Hans Dieter Beck - PFHLai - 11 Jan
7. Ayla Erduran - PFHLai - 12 Jan
8. Otto Schenk - Spencer - 14 Jan
9. Walter Deutsch — Bagumba (talk) - 17 Jan
10. Elgar Howarth - PFHLai - 19 Jan
11. Claire van Kampen - Amakuru - 21 Jan
12. André Soltner - robertsky - 25 Jan
13. Gabriel Yacoub - Stephen - 28 Jan
14. Kazuyoshi Akiyama - PFHLai - 1 Feb
15. Horst Janson - Amakuru - 4 Feb
16. İlhan Usmanbaş - Stephen - 6 Feb
17. Helga de Alvear - Schwede66 - 8 Feb
18. Paul Plishka - Schwede66 - 10 Feb
19. Hans-Peter Lehmann - Schwede66 - 12 Feb
20. Edith Mathis - Spencer - 13 Feb
21. Maria Tipo - Stephen - 17 Feb
22. Sigrid Metz-Göckel - Stephen - 18 Feb
23. Vladimír Válek - PFHLai - 23 Feb
24. Ilkka Kuusisto - robertsky - 23 Feb
25. Ricardo Kanji - Stephen - 27 Feb
26. Simon Lindley - PFHLai - 2 Mar
27. Ferenc Rados - Stephen - 4 Mar
28. Edesio Alejandro - Stephen - 10 Mar
29. Jean-Louis Pichon - Sam Walton - 12 Mar
30. Sofia Gubaidulina - PFHLai - 15 Mar
31. Hans Peter Korff - Bagumba - 18 Mar
32. Manfred Schukowski - Spencer - 20 Mar

In The News Barnstar

		The In The News Barnstar
		Thank you for your contributions to In the news and our collaborations. The number of RD contributions are 354 starting in 2017. Grimes2 (talk) 12:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I am actually only interested in a small aspect of the section, the Recent deaths, but - with great help by you and others - achieved that there was no day in 2025 without one on the Main page, - right now there are two. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

DtoQ Award

		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring Magdalena Hinterdobler (prior candidate for deletion at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magdalena Hinterdobler) to Good Article status, I hereby present you The Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! 1989 (talk) 15:34, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, I like that one! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Alexander Goehr

The article Alexander Goehr you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Alexander Goehr for comments about the article, and Talk:Alexander Goehr/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 Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 05:22, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Grounded

I saw this edit. Have you seen Grounded? I live fairly close to the Met Opera, so starting last year I've been putting my name down for their next-day lottery drawings sometimes. Still pretty new to opera, though. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 21:39, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for coming over. I used to live rather close to the Met (like about an hour away) for a few years last century, and went a few times then. Now I live as close to Oper Frankfurt, and as "our" chorus director was called to the Met I had Grounded (his first new work there) on my watchlist. I love opera, as my user page says ;) - Enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115

The article Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115 and Talk:Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Matthew Yeager -- Matthew Yeager (talk) 05:41, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Edith Mathis

On 13 February 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Edith Mathis, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 04:35, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Hans Dieter Beck

On 14 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hans Dieter Beck, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hans Dieter Beck (pictured), a co-head of the publisher C. H. Beck, rode a bicycle to work until he was 92? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hans Dieter Beck. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hans Dieter Beck), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Launchballer 00:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

1. Hans Dieter Beck - 14 Feb
2. Kazuyoshi Akiyama,
3. Alexander Goehr - 7 Mar
4. Simon Neal (baritone) - 16 Mar
5. Ana María Iriarte - 17 Mar

Your GA nomination of Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139

The article Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139 for comments about the article, and Talk:Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139/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 Michael Aurel -- Michael Aurel (talk) 23:03, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Vladimír Válek

On 23 February 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Vladimír Válek, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 04:18, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Ilkka Kuusisto

On 23 February 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ilkka Kuusisto, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. – robertsky (talk) 20:34, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2025

Alphabet run E & F | Artists+Activists | Women of the Arab World Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

--Lajmmoore (talk 08:54, 25 February 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging

A cup of tea to say hello again!

Hello Gerda, it is nice to see you still busy on Wikipedia. I have been away from it for several years, and I'm just now returning to creating, editing and considering articles for deletion. I hope you're well and that things are going well for you. RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:50, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the tea, - I noticed your return with joy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:52, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Pop culture

Thanks for the thanks on my removal of a pop culture item on Mozart's 41st. I wish that for every classical article X, we had a satellite article "X in popular culture" where we could put all these contributions, but this doesn't seem to be a widely adopted solution. Opus33 (talk) 17:44, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

I agree: that would be a good idea especially when it gets overwhelming. I am happy that we have Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring instead of all that in the article of the cantata. For some Bach cantatas we have a separate recordings article, - that also helps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:09, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Ricardo Kanji

On 27 February 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ricardo Kanji, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 11:13, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello

Hoping you are well. Just checking in. What are you working on? — Iadmc♫^talk  14:53, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

see my user page (any day), today: the last of Bach's chorale cantatas, turning 300 on Sunday and not in shape yet. see also call for collaboration (above) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Simon Lindley

On 2 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Simon Lindley, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 16:56, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Ferenc Rados

On 4 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ferenc Rados, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 02:20, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Recent disruptive series of editors

Hello Gerda: first, thank you very much for the very kind Barnstar message. It has been a long while since we have communicated, and I hope that you are well. I unfortunately have to bring some not-so-happy news, about a series of at least three disruptive editors on wikipedia who all look, in all honesty, to be the same editor. These are their ID's:

(1) 2601:246:5A01:66E0:E04E:658F:F403:FD6D
(2) 2601:246:5A01:66E0:6384:1F9C:689D:657E
(3) 2601:246:5A01:66E0:5070:70E8:E57E:E75B

This series of editors has been making the same kind of disruptive edits to various orchestra pages, where 'end years' are added to the current chief conductors / music directors / principal conductors based on the current or most recent contract information, to replace the term 'present', which indicates that the conductor is the current holder of the position. Of course, no such years should be stated until the conductor has left that post.

Because the first part of the ID ('2601:246:5A01:66E0') is the same for all three editors, I have deduced that these three editors are, in fact, the same editor. You can guess what I am about to ask with this situation. How can we block this editor from doing these improper edits on wikipedia? You know more people than I do, so perhaps there is a route to escalate this situation.

Please let me know if you have questions for me here. Many thanks for reading, DJRafe (talk) 14:52, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining - I saw some on my watchlist. I'd call Graham87, but he was desysopped for blocking disruptive editors. Drmies, perhaps? People are watching here, but perhaps copying this to project Classical music would get attention of other admins interested in conductors and their terms. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

There's a tool that allows you to put IPs together and figure out the range; in this case they're all on the same /64 range so it's likely the same person, yes. You can see the list of their contributions here. I'm going to see if they've been warned on any of those IP talk pages and decide whether to block or not based on that. DJRafe, the thing to do, always, is to leave (templated or not) warnings on the user's talk pages; that makes things easier on us admins. And of course when you revert, explain why in an edit summary. You may have done that; I'm about to check. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:13, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

OK, I see only one warning, about deviating from the Manual of Style, on User talk:2601:246:5A01:66E0:6384:1F9C:689D:657E. That's not enough for me to block--and I can't tell if their edits, many of which still stand, are disruptive or not. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 16:15, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

@Drmies:@Gerda Arendt: Many thanks for the quick responses on this situation, and specifically for the tool that collates all this series of edits. I can very easily tell that the 2601:246:5a01:66e0 sets of edits are disruptive, because they are essentially all the same kind of edit, likewise with no other updates to the articles besides those comparatively simple and repetitive edits. I am working slowly on correcting the pages, but not with simple reversions, because at least so far, each of the orchestra articles in question also needs other information edits. So I am doing those 'end year removal' edits, but also doing other corrections and updates to each article as I go. This is a very manual process, since each orchestra will need updates specific to itself, and thus these revisions will take a fair portion of time.

I have not left any warnings on that user's talk pages, because I am concerned that this editor can write some sort of AI code to revert all my changes in a single go, not because such reversions would be valid (they would not be, in my admittedly biased opinion), but simply because s/he can. I have seen, however, in the case of the Cleveland Orchestra page, a case where two incarnations of this single editor ('2601:246:5a01:66e0:6384:1f9c:689d:657e' and '2601:246:5a01:66e0:9867:487f:b65d:c46b') imposed the same improper addition of 2027 to 'close out' FW-M's tenure, when it is not yet 2027 and he has not yet completed his tenure in Cleveland. I am planning to continue this 'long slog' process of revisions with those reversions of 'end years', perhaps to state the obvious. I suppose that I could place warnings on the series of 2601:246:5a01:66e0 pages, but again, I have concerns about a potential 'AI vindictive response'. For Gerda, I am sorry to clutter your personal page with this subject. For everyone, if it's best to take it to my page, we can do that. DJRafe (talk) 07:16, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

DJRafe, I don't understand what you mean with an AI response. If you warn the editor, and they do it again and you warn them again, then we block. It's really that simple. Drmies (talk) 13:27, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good. No worries about discussing here, - I am open to discussions among colleagues. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:31, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

@Drmies:@Gerda Arendt: Well, the same editor is back, with the newest address of 2601:246:5A01:66E0:B583:1261:4DA0:8F1A, with 10 such edits in the space of 18 minutes earlier today (this really does seem to have AI or some sort of automated editing process written all over it). Moreover, this editor has re-added those 'end years' to several pages where those 'end years' had been rightly removed, e.g. Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. I am seeing that Grimes2 has taken on some of the reversion, but with what looks like a simple revert rather than the extra edits that I'd mentioned earlier, from my side. I have done such 'reversions plus' on three orchestra pages at this time. I have also left warning comments on all but the most recent of this editor's 2601:246:5A01:66E0 talk pages (and I am quite aware of the irony that I have left multiple variations of the same 'repeat offender' warning on that editor's own various pages). I'm not sure where we go from here, besides waiting for something to happen from that editor. DJRafe (talk) 08:11, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

DJRafe I do not know what their edits are about. I do not know if they are good or bad. Where do we go from here? Nowhere, unless you revert their edits with an explanation and warn them. If you don't do that, nothing will happen and you might as well stop pinging me. And please don't explain the details to me: I'm an administrator and don't judge content: that is what you do because you are the expert. Drmies (talk) 12:42, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

I reverted (rollback) all current edits of all 4 IPs. (around 20 were not yet reverted, most were already fine.) I gave the latest one a welcome message, explaining. If they continue I'll notify all here, Drmies, DJRafe. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:29, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your recent reversion edits by the 2601:246:5A01:66E0 editor. The same editor is back, as (a) 2601:246:5a01:66e0:a8b7:5f6a:2e3:60e7, (b) 2601:246:5a01:66e0:9930:8598:51e3:da89, and (c) 2601:246:5a01:66e0:b440:7302:97cf:ed6d. The edit by 2601:246:5a01:66e0:a8b7:5f6a:2e3:60e7 on the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra page was actually valid, so I did not leave a note on that Talk page. However, the latter two edits were invalid, and I did my manual reversions with other edits on those two pages. On the CBSO page, this editor has now done that same edit on Kazuki Yamada twice, but from nominally 'different' IP addresses. I suppose that all I can do now is to keep monitoring for new iterations of this same editor, unless there is a basis for blocking all access by addresses that start with 2601:246:5A01:66E0. I don't wish to trouble Drmies more than I already have on this, so I'm keeping this part of the discussion with yourself at this moment. I don't know what else to do. Thanks for reading, DJRafe (talk) 16:28, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Gerda, I tried to ping you from Draft:Simone Vesi; don't know if that worked. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:09, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

That worked but I was outside. That era composers might be in good care with Aza24, plus I'm busy, another composer died, and I want to get an article ready for Easter, which means make it GA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:18, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

@Drmies, Vesi has a Grove article [1], which is generally a good marker of WP notability (I see it incompletely cited already). I imagine the user found the Eitner source from the Grove article. Aza24 (talk) 20:30, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

7 March 2025, Ravel’s 150th anniversary

Hi! I’ve seen you around a couple of times from some discussions that you have had with others and noticed that you love classical music! I’d thought that I would share with you my love for Maurice Ravel (my number one favorite composer for several years). I listened to several concerts this year dedicated to his 150th anniversary: pieces included La valse, Boléro, Introduction and Allegro, etc., all very wonderful pieces. T^{fess up?}_{or down?} 01:01, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I thought of it and brought him to the main page at least by mentioning his name. I will write my story about one of his pieces, Trois Chansons (Ravel), created on 7 March 2019. (I had meant to use the Introduction and Allegro, in which I was involved a bit in 2011.) I want to create a new article on the occasion, Tout est lumière. Nice to meet you and your love! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Did you meet me in a discussion from Talk:Maurice Ravel/Archive 1? - My story:

Maurice Ravel
wrote texts and music for
Trois Chansons,
his only composition for choir a cappella,
in response to the outbreak
of World War I.
watch with score
3 April 2019

I fondly remember ballet, opera and concert including an opera whose 100th birthday is coming up soon! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:54, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for responding! Trois Chansons? I’ll need to check that out, haha. And I’ve seen you around on user talk pages sharing some works of music, etc., so that was how I found out about you. Very sweet of you! (I was into Wikipedia editing for only 5-6 years so I’m a little bit of a newbie.) T^{fess up?}_{or down?} 14:22, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Go ahead, check out. When I came across the Trois Chansons I was intrigued by his response to war: write something light, in your tradition, strengthening identity. I always list the articles I look at on my user page, - feel free to add and correct. - Below: almost too much of a good thing, a conductor and five other composers to be celeebrated ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Kazuyoshi Akiyama

On 7 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kazuyoshi Akiyama, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1994 Kazuyoshi Akiyama (pictured) conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with Japanese musicians? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kazuyoshi Akiyama. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kazuyoshi Akiyama), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 12:04, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Alexander Goehr

On 7 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alexander Goehr, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alexander Goehr. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Alexander Goehr), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 12:05, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Bed of crocus, Ehrenbach.jpg

You took this photo with your cell phone? That's impressive. Viriditas (talk) 10:57, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

thank you! - I tried again yesterday, they boom later this year. I'll uplaod one, but it's not quite as good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:00, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

You know, you made me realize that I need to get a new phone! Thank you for the little nudge. I hesitate to tell you how old my phone is. You wouldn't believe it. Honestly, what I really want to do is fully divest myself from all corporate products and go entirely open source and run LineageOS. Viriditas (talk) 11:05, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Gavino Gabriel's La Jura at La Scala

I wish and hope that Gavino Gabriel's La Jura will performe at La Scala on 7 December 2025. 176.32.27.41 (talk) 13:21, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm angry

Nobody even rewards me, especially for a good page about me that I made myself. Spectra321578 (talk) 09:39, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Edesio Alejandro

On 11 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Edesio Alejandro, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 11:03, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

incoming gift~

	A lotus for you
	Enjoy the lotus n have a good day~ bdanh 12:11, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for a surprise! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:14, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Jean-Louis Pichon

On 12 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jean-Louis Pichon, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Sam Walton (talk) 23:15, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Sofia Gubaidulina

On 15 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Sofia Gubaidulina, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 15:49, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Simon Neal (baritone)

On 16 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Simon Neal (baritone), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that baritone Simon Neal's 2020 performance as Don Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio included riding a horse on the stage of the Royal Opera House? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Simon Neal (baritone). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Simon Neal (baritone)).

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:03, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Ana María Iriarte

On 17 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ana María Iriarte, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ana María Iriarte (pictured) made her professional opera debut in 1945, retired from the stage in 1960, and created a foundation promoting zarzuela in 2006? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ana María Iriarte. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ana María Iriarte).

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Hans Peter Korff

On 18 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hans Peter Korff, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 09:32, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Scorpions1325

Sorry to bug you yet again, but I had to leave my second account because things got bad, and I couldn't stay away. This is my new account. My anniversary was April 2 in case you weren't aware. I promise I won't let this happen again. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 00:18, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Also, I recently found out that Pvmoutside died the day after he made his last edit. So you may want to update that as well. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 00:28, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

thank you for telling me, done --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:10, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Manfred Schukowski

On 20 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Manfred Schukowski, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 17:10, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Kürten 2025

Hey Gerda, the Stockhausen Courses are happening again this summer. It's where Jerry and I formed our friendship. I know it's a schlep for you, but it's closer than it is for me from NYC! I'll be giving a lecture, and Bergisches Land is beautiful! Hope you can come! Trumpetrep (talk) 22:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

That sounds interesting, but I would understand nothing, - amateur choir singer that I am. Jerry and I formed our friendship here, when he helped me with my first steps and corrected a fact form a source, - the source was wrong. I went to a performance of Originale in Berlin thinking of him, and we chatted. Then William Waterhouse. - Can anybody attend? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, the Courses are open to all. Trumpetrep (talk) 20:11, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mirella Freni

The article Mirella Freni you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mirella Freni for comments about the article, and Talk:Mirella Freni/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 MSincccc -- MSincccc (talk) 11:45, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Well done! It's always worthwhile to improve articles about outstanding opera signers.--Ipigott (talk) 12:48, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Gerda, I hope the changes I made don't mess with your good work. Consider them to be mere suggestions. This is an area in which I have no expertise. If I have overstepped, feel free to delete (or rearrange) any or all of them if needed. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:59, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

I checked some and found them good, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:28, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

I trust your judgment. You have subject matter expertise and perspective that I lack. So I defer to your opinion. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:36, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

I just rearranged a bit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:41, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Having other editors rearranging the lawn chairs and overseeing the product and process is what we are supposed to do. It makes for a better product. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

I see

I see Pierre Boulez is on the front page. Hate his music but great conductor. — Iadmc♫^talk  18:23, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

see my user page: I was active in the FAC for Boulez and knew about the timing. My story, though, is another birthday child: Jörg Streli. When Boulez died I wrote Ainsi parla Zarathoustra (Boulez). I had written Jahrhundertring already when Chéreau died. Anybody up for a GA review? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:31, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

In honour of the centenary, I show Lulu under #music, seen in the three-act version that he premiered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Well done! — Iadmc♫^talk  20:41, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Nun danket alle Gott (Pachelbel)

Hello! Your submission of Nun danket alle Gott (Pachelbel) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ~ Pbritti (talk) 00:25, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

New message from Sjones23

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Goldman Band § Where is my template section for Goldman Band Cornet Soloists?. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:40, 29 March 2025 (UTC)