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== May music ==
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[[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#4 May|Bach's cantata]] was performed 300 years ago, by occasion. The youtube is with [[Gerlinde Sämann]], remember? -- [[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 19:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Gerda Arendt}} you bet I do ... not just because of her blindness but also because of the [[User talk:Gerda Arendt/2010#Re: Gerlinde Sämann|tea rodent incident]]! :-)[[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 03:22, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
::And on listening to the link, her aria was my favourite (not just because of her amazing singing, like all the singers in that performance), but also the oboe parts and the general feel of that movement ... sublime! And apparently, per the Youtube comments, she's reading the Braille music on stage during the performance. I think Braille music works best for singers because their hands are free to read while performing ... for just about every other instrument, we have to memorise everything! Speaking of which, yesterday I discovered an became obsessed with an absolutely lovely little piece that seems within my ability to play ... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PFGpPzu_7s Grieg's "Arietta"] from his ''[[Lyric Pieces]]''! That piece along with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNzR5P3nL9w Tchaikovsky's "Morning Prayer"] from his ''Children's Album'', inspired by [[User talk:Graham87/Archive 67#March music|the concert I attended two months ago]], will be the next pieces I try once I have the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfk1Fa9P25o bourrées] from Bach's 1st [[English Suites (Bach)|English Suites]] under my fingers (they're getting there, but are trickier than I expected ... I'm not aiming to play them as fast as that recording though)! [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 04:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
::: I often told others that tea rodent story ;) - Yes, she's reading Braille, and she is free to "look" at the conductor at the same time (which she does) while we can't. - Did you get from my talk that a friend sings (bass) in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ld7VNaKss this]? (Before the livestream started they had the choir sing Bach motets! - speech at minute 18, music 21, first a new a cappella piece, ''It's A Journey'' by [[Tania León]], then Requiem 31) - Good plans for the piano! The French Suites are easier but the B-flat English one is just great! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 06:45, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
::::{{replyto|Gerda Arendt}} Wow re everything. Nope, I didn't notice the link on your talk; sounds cool ... will check it out. Yes, a slight majority of the Bach suite movements I've learnt are from the French Suites (I actually got a hard-copy Braille version of all of them made for me from some digital files written in [[Braille ASCII]] ... because out of the sets of Bach suites, the French Suites have the most material that I can play). But I've been trying some movements from the English Suites that I really like that are within my technical ability (the prelude and bourrées from the 1st in A major, plus the allemande and sarabande from the 3rd one in G minor ... which I learnt about from some audio files on Commons that [[Special:Diff/131951875|I added to Wikipedia in 2007]]), along with the prelude from the first Partita in B-flat (I studied the minuets from that partita as a kid as part of the [[Suzuki method]], but was exempted from playing the gigue because of all the hand-crossing). Re the French Suites: so far I've learnt everything in the 1st French Suite in D minor except the courante and the gigue (the allemande is particularly delightful), the air from No. 2 in C minor, the allemande from No. 4 in E-flat major, and the gavotte from No. 5 in G major. Also, while we're on the subject of blindness and classical piano, I can't *hnot* mention [[Nobuyuki Tsujii]], who is amazing! [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 07:06, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
::::: Today's main page has again memories of three people who died, for two just the name and for the third an image (great!) coupled with a little bit from her life which seems too little for my taste. [[WT:DYK#Barbara Frischmuth|What do you think]]? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 12:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
::::: Recommended reading today: [[Christfried Schmidt]], [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#8 May|a story]] about patience. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 19:19, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
::::: [[Margot Friedländer]], [[May Abrahamse]] (with uncertain licensing of portrait), and [[Vakhtang Machavariani]] ([[Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#Vakhtang Machavariani|nominated]]) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 14:06, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
::::: listen to [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#14 May|Machavariani's ''Mariupol'']] --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 15:47, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::{{replyto|Gerda Arendt}} That story link you added went to the wrong place; I've fixed it on my end. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 15:52, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: thank you! - musings on [[User talk:Gerda Arendt#15 May|15 May]] --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 20:34, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#17 May|birthday]] of [[Erik Satie]] - can we get his article to GA for his centenary of death? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 17:56, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: all Verdi today: tenor [[Luigi Alva]] and the premiere OTD of his [[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]], see my talk --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 19:58, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: [[Jadwiga Rappé]] - lovely alto voice --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 07:11, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: A first: [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#26 May|two stories about two people]] who worked together and died the same day --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 15:36, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]], born 100 years ago, [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#28 May|described by Alan Blyth]] --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 19:52, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: [[Feast of the Ascension|Ascension Day]] today, time for a service at a small church nearby and meeting friends. 300 years ago Bach performed [[Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128|a cantata for the occasion]], with a rich use of brass and winds, and to the libretto of a woman. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 20:53, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: reasons to look at Bach (and listen): it's a recent GA (not by me), he assumed the position of Thomaskantor [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#30 May|OTD]] in 1723, he's up [[Wikipedia:Peer review/Johann Sebastian Bach/archive3|for PR]], and several of his cantatas for GA, and his [[Easter Oratorio]] for FAC --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 11:33, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::: another reason: [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#31 May|the village organ he played]], and we can still listen to its sound --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 16:17, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
::::::::{{replyto|Gerda Arendt}} Wow, amazing that it's survived so well! I don't think that recording renders that instrument's sound particularly kindly though; maybe it's just me but I find it rather harsh to my ears (I've heard that organs are particularly difficult to record). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMPz9Amluo This demonstration of that organ] that I found by [[Kimberly Marshall]] sounds a lot nicer to me; even comparing that recording at 2:13 (where most/all of the stops are being used) to the opening of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lN9GmxWzY your link], I can tell quite a difference, but I don't exactly know how to explain it. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 08:10, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
::::::::: Thank you for exploring. I saw that other video also but it had too much talk for my taste, and the (fixed) camera shows the organ not quite straight, throughout ;) - an interesting cantata today --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 08:31, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

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What was the point of replacing a 21-year-old comment that was removed by its author 19 years ago? [[User:Jpgordon|--jpgordon]]<sup><small>[[User talk:Jpgordon|&#x1d122;&#x1d106;&#x1D110;&#x1d107;]]</small></sup> 19:33, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
:Yes, I was wondering that. [[WP:REDACTED]] permits people to remove their talk page posts if nobody else has responded. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:42, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Jpgordon|Redrose64}} Fair point; my restoration of that comment was a bit outside general practice. As part of my general checks of almost every article I encounter on Wikipedia, I like to make sure that the initial comment on its talk page remains intact (if it was constructive), whether archived or otherwise. If the comment had only been on the page for a couple of weeks or so before its author removed it I would've let it go, but it was there for over a year and therefore associated with the page for [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MG_Cars&action=history&date-range-to=2006-04-13&tagfilter=&offset=&limit=87 a significant part of its history]. [[WP:REDACT]] goes on to say: "... Once others have replied, or even if no one's replied but it's been more than a short while, if you wish to change or delete your comment, it is commonly best practice to indicate your changes." At the time of the deletion in question in April 2006, all I can find in the talk page guidelines about talk page comment removal is: "[[Special:Permalink/46934191|Avoid deleting comments on talk pages, particularly comments made by others]]". This isn't a situation I encounter very often, though I've done restorations in situations like this in the past. Sometimes I just like asking the oddest questions of page histories and therefore get the oddest answers ... [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 04:47, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
::It just seems kinda pointless. Kinda like whoever is fixing lint errors on talk pages of users blocked or departed years ago. [[User:Jpgordon|--jpgordon]]<sup><small>[[User talk:Jpgordon|&#x1d122;&#x1d106;&#x1D110;&#x1d107;]]</small></sup> 05:35, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
:::{{replyto|Jpgordon}} There was [[User:MalnadachBot|MalnadachBot]], which has since stopped editing. Some people still fix these errors but only the more serious ones I think. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 05:38, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

== Sort keys ==

A sort key (specifically "Mahler symphony 9" in a category list) isn't a matter of likely or "unlikely to be confused". Please learn what they do '''''before''''' removing them, thank you. [[User:ELSchissel|ELSchissel]] ([[User talk:ELSchissel|talk]]) 01:10, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|ELSchissel}} I know what sortkeys do ... I just didn't read the diff properly, and my edit summary was referring to the hatnote. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 05:17, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
::Fair enough. Has since been reverted, anycase. [[User:ELSchissel|ELSchissel]] ([[User talk:ELSchissel|talk]]) 08:35, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

== Cleisthenes ==

I may have very unhelpfully tried to "help" here...

Essentially, there are two "famous" Athenians by that name, and by far the more famous is [[Cleisthenes]], the democratic reformer. [[Cleisthenes (son of Sibyrtius)]] was a very minor political figure mostly known for being the butt of the joke in a couple of comedies by [[Aristophanes]].

Personally, I'd suggest that if [[Cleisthenes (Athenian)]] redirects anywhere, it should be to [[Cleisthenes]] with a hatnote (as it currently does after my edits), but I'm not convinced that having that redirect adds a whole lot of value over just [[Cleisthenes (disambiguation)]]. ''[[User:UndercoverClassicist|<b style="color:#7F007F">UndercoverClassicist</b>]]'' <sup>[[User talk:UndercoverClassicist|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/UndercoverClassicist|C]]</sup> 12:59, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|UndercoverClassicist}} Not a problem; I've adjusted {{noredirect|Talk:Cleisthenes (Athenian)}} so it also redirects to the same place. At least all the edits to [[Cleisthenes (son of Sibyrtius)]] are in the right place now after my history merge. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 13:05, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

== June music ==
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The image shows foxglove in abundance, each an upright stem with many purple flowers, but the many next to each other creating an almost abstract band of purple vs. the light green of the leaves below and the dark green of the forest above.

The [[User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs 2025#8 May|places]]: a day full of great discoveries, culminating in [[Oliwa Cathedral]] which was called a must-see by [[Graham Waterhouse]] who played the organ once. (There are two, one with an extra set of pipes separately at an angle. Dinner right next to the Abbot's Palace, where [[Krzysztof Penderecki|Penderecki]] had also been a guest.

The [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#8 May|story]]: [[Bazon Brock]] spoke at an exhibition at [[Kolumba]] to honour [[Anna and Bernhard Blume]] on her 80th birthday. [https://bazonbrock.de/werke/detail/?id=3341] Did you know "[[An Anna Blume]]"? -- [[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 20:47, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

I have [[Easter Oratorio]] on the main page, but of course told the story, which is admittedly complex, [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Easter Oratorio/archive1|on Easter Sunday]] for the music's 300th anniversary. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 21:40, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

[[User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2025#9 Jun|sang today]] --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 20:00, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

[[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#17 Jun|Stravinsky]] pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died + I have [[Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding, BWV 176|a "defiant" cantata]] up for GA --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 18:52, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

too many died, see [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#18 Jun|my story]] and listen to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hG8Zd0xLZg Comfort ye] (sung in German) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 14:04, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Gerda Arendt}} Oh no, that's awful ... that [[Vladyslav Gorai]] died in Ukraine like that! Too young. Also RIP [[Alfred Brendel]], my favourite Schubert player, bar none. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87#top|talk]]) 14:14, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
:: yes - you could help upgrading his article, - too little Schubert and too little Liszt, - he was about the first to play Liszt like a serious composer --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 15:16, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
:: ... and too little Haydn, - anyway, on the main page, and "look" at [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#19 Jun|the autograph of Beethoven's last piano sonata]] (too hard to describe, very controlled writing) and listen to a pianist who wanted to serve the compositions most of all --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 22:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC)