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| title = 1 June · Tatort service | image = Marienkirche, Aulhausen, Tatort-Gottesdienst, In Verbindung.jpg | image_upright = 1.1 | normal = Marienkirche, Aulhausen }} | {{User QAIbox | title = 25 May · concert | image = Konzerthaus, Vienna, Handel Deborah.jpg | image_upright = 1.1 | normal = {{ubl| Konzerthaus, Vienna | Handel: Deborah | {{ill|Sophie Junker|de}} | Sophia Patsi | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir | Ton Koopman, cond. }} }} | | {{User QAIbox | title = 18 May · concert | image = Casals Forum from street.jpg | image_upright = 1.1 | normal = {{ubl| Casals Forum | Chamber Music Connects the World | Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 | Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 | 14 May | Haydn: String Quartet No. 30 | Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge | Elgar: Piano Quintet | · 11 May | Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 | Benjamin Hulett, tenor | Christel Lee, violin | students of Kronberg Academy }} }} | |} {{-}} = archives =2025 talk{{User QAIbox | image = Foxglove, Scheid, Ehrenbach.jpg | image_upright = 1.3 | bold = story · music · places | normal = {{ubl| Schubert: Ave Maria | Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen | Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud | Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 2915px | Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria | La Partida | Von Gott kömmt mir ein Freudenschein15px | For the beauty of the earth }} }} 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, {{tl|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:
From 2024= Your [[WP:Good articles|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 File:Symbol wait.svg. 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
: 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 =
: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) {{anchor|GA}} Your [[WP:Good articles|GA]] nomination of [[Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg)]]The article Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) you nominated as a good article has passed File:Symbol support vote.svg; 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)
{{anchor|RD}} ITN recognition for [[Wilhelm Brückner (luthier)]]{{ivmbox |1=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) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} 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!
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: 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
: Thank you, I like that one! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 16 January 2025 (UTC) {{anchor|DYK}} DYK for Hans Dieter Beck{{ivmbox |image = Updated DYK query.svg |imagesize=40px |text = 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, [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2025-02-04&end=2025-02-24&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Hans_Dieter_Beck 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)
7 March 2025, Ravel’s 150th anniversaryHi! 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. Tfess 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: {{User QAIbox | image = Postcard-1910 Ravel (cropped but not darkened).jpg | image_upright = 0.6 }} Maurice Ravel 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.) Tfess 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 Alexander Goehr{{ivmbox |image = Updated DYK query.svg |imagesize=40px |text = 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, [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2025-02-25&end=2025-03-17&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Alexander_Goehr 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) incoming gift~
: Thank you for a surprise! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:14, 13 March 2025 (UTC) Kürten 2025Hey 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) DYK for Tout est lumière{{ivmbox |image = Updated DYK query.svg |imagesize=40px |text = On 7 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tout est lumière, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Tout est lumière, a setting by Maurice Ravel for soprano, choir and orchestra of a poem by Victor Hugo, earned Ravel a place in the second round of the 1901 Prix de Rome? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tout est lumière. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2025-03-28&end=2025-04-17&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Tout_est_lumi%C3%A8re Tout est lumière]), 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. ThanksThanks for posting artistic items on my talk page. I can't always reply to them but appreciate your doing this. Best wishes, Opus33 (talk) 02:29, 8 April 2025 (UTC) I concur with Opus33, by the way. I don't spend as much time here as I did years ago, but I always enjoy looking/listening - thank you Gerda. Antandrus (talk) 02:44, 8 April 2025 (UTC) DYK for Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina){{ivmbox |image = Updated DYK query.svg |imagesize=40px |text = On 24 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sofia Gubaidulina combined the Passion narrative according to John with texts from the Book of Revelation when she composed her 2000 Johannes-Passion{{-?}} The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2025-04-14&end=2025-05-04&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Johannes-Passion_(Gubaidulina) Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina)]), 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. 26 Aprilin memory of Pope Francis:
ITN recognition for [[Charles Beare]]{{ivmbox |1=On 3 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Charles Beare, 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 23:04, 3 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Kari Løvaas]]{{ivmbox |1=On 3 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Kari Løvaas, 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 23:25, 3 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Christfried Schmidt]]{{ivmbox |1=On 6 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Christfried Schmidt, 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. Schwede66 19:18, 6 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} Your [[WP:Good articles|GA]] nomination of [[Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62]]The article Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 you nominated as a good article has passed File:Symbol support vote.svg; see Talk:Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 for comments about the article, and Talk:Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62/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) 21:21, 9 May 2025 (UTC) Record user pageYou now have the most edited user page on Wikipedia (excluding subpages). Renerpho (talk) 00:29, 10 May 2025 (UTC) : please {{diff|Wikipedia:Wikipedia records|1289655841||explain}} --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:54, 10 May 2025 (UTC) ::{{re|Gerda Arendt}} This page lists the most edited pages on the English Wikipedia. With 20,839 edits, your user page User:Gerda Arendt is currently the most edited user page that is not a sub page (like User:AmandaNP/UAA/Time) or a redirect. You broke that record, previously held by User:Orenburg1, a while back, during the week from 9-16 August, 2023. However, I only now got around to updating the list on WP:Wikipedia records, which is when I noticed the change. Renerpho (talk) 09:15, 10 May 2025 (UTC) ::: I wonder how I "broke a record" that was at 18,xxx, making only a few edits each day and now at 20.xxx - however, I don't care much about records anyway. I'm happy that 99% of edits are article-related. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:23, 10 May 2025 (UTC) ITN recognition for [[Margot Friedländer]]{{ivmbox |1=On 10 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Margot Friedländer, 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. Schwede66 23:21, 10 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[May Abrahamse]]{{ivmbox |1=On 11 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article May Abrahamse, 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. SpencerT•C 04:51, 11 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Vakhtang Machavariani]]{{ivmbox |1=On 13 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Vakhtang Machavariani, 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) 17:14, 13 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Matthew Best (conductor)]]{{ivmbox |1=On 16 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Matthew Best (conductor), 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. SpencerT•C 03:58, 16 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Alena Veselá]]{{ivmbox |1=On 18 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alena Veselá, 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 03:27, 18 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Alla Osipenko]]{{ivmbox |1=On 19 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alla Osipenko, 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. Stephen 00:56, 19 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} Sandwich textYour stories are hard to read. Text is sandwiched on the left side of the picture. Example Alla Osipenko. Grimes2 11:26, 19 May 2025 (UTC) : Sandwiched means between two pictures, there's only one in the article. Or do you mean the Story. I can't help that looking different for different user definitions of image upright, - for me, there's no text left of the image. Should I use fixed pixels, perhaps? Which would be hard because I always tried to avoid that, and the framing template doesn't offer it, at present. How is this for you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 19 May 2025 (UTC) Alla Osipenko, ::This version of your story is better. Thanks. Grimes2 12:07, 19 May 2025 (UTC) ::: adopted --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:16, 19 May 2025 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
Thank you, - I try. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:37, 22 May 2025 (UTC) ITN recognition for [[Luigi Alva]]{{ivmbox |1=On 21 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Luigi Alva, 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 04:13, 21 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Jadwiga Rappé]]{{ivmbox |1=On 23 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jadwiga Rappé, 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. SpencerT•C 21:52, 23 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Yuri Vladimirov]]{{ivmbox |1=On 25 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Yuri Vladimirov, 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. Schwede66 20:02, 25 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Yury Grigorovich]]{{ivmbox |1=On 26 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Yury Grigorovich, 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. SpencerT•C 01:49, 26 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} ITN recognition for [[Marthe Cohn]]{{ivmbox |1=On 28 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Marthe Cohn, 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. Schwede66 01:20, 28 May 2025 (UTC) |2={{Ambox globe current red}} |imagesize=50px }} Women in Red June 2025
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