Gerda Arendt

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We move 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)Reply

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 began 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 meetings with friends who gave them to me. I archive from time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Isues where I need help, such as reviews:

•  Y Horst Janson (actor) needs expansion and sourcing to appear among the Recent deaths. Thanks to Dr. Blofeld, it seems possible, but today is the last day. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
•  Y İlhan Usmanbaş needs attention on WP:ITNN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:02, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
•  Y Paul Plishka now --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:52, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply

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)Reply

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)Reply

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)Reply

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)Reply

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

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)Reply

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)Reply

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

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

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)Reply

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

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)Reply

Hey, I hope this message finds you well. I just translated Oktober in Europa, but haven’t really done any work with music on here. Do you mind giving it a look, just to make sure I avoided any significant screw-ups? Sincerly, FortunateSons (talk) 16:53, 20 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

I'll look when free which may take a while. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 20 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Of course, thank you! FortunateSons (talk) 17:59, 20 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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The article Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 for comments about the article, and Talk:Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5/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 Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 01:24, 27 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply

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)Reply

Frantisek Kotzwara. Supposed to be the worst composer in history. Any evidence for this (aside from the awful music)? — Iadmc♫^talk  03:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

If I had free time, I'd rather improve Mozart ;) - 33k+ views on his birthday, and just looking at image placement makes me sick ;) - Talking about images, what do you (all) think about Schloss Johannisberg? Discussion on the talk.--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

for the encouragement on the Haydn changes. I hope all is well with you. Opus33 (talk) 21:40, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply

Hello Gerda, I recently created a draft for the Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann. They have a wonderful music department. Perhaps you are familiar with it? Thriley (talk) 19:22, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for writing and pointing! - I'll look at the article but not today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

You don't have access to The New York Times? Use the collection ProQuest at the The Wikipedia Library. Grimes2 (talk) 17:39, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Launchballer 00:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

1. Hans Dieter Beck --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:44, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply