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Happy Christmas, 4meter4
May you have a very Happy Christmas ...
and a safe New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music.
Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 09:53, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
- Voceditenore, I hope you had a very Happy Christmas and that this coming year brings many enriching adventures. I have missed seeing you around at WP:WikiProject Opera. I hope you will find more time to collaborate with us this year as your work is always appreciated. With affection.4meter4 (talk) 18:59, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year, 4meter4!
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Repeating musical wishes! - I'm taking a break from DYK, for more quality articles. Today's featured article is Osbert Parsley, not by me but Amitchell125 where I commented, including the beginning of my songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:16, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm on vacation, - click on songs! I tell my own stories now, instead of relying on DYK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Background: User talk:Storye book#Elena Manistina, or: why Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress isn't on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
back from vacation - Melitta Muszely died, RIP --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:58, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Merry Christmas, 4Meter4
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Si Jenks
Hi @4meter4:, could you please create an article for American actor Si Jenks who had starring roles in films such as The Rider of the Law, Oregon Trail, The Cowboy Star, Zorro's Black Whip, The Great Train Robbery and has already an article in the French Wikipedia? 190.219.168.53 (talk) 07:35, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
ITN recognition for José Evangelista
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March thanks
thank you for what you did for La fanciulla! - sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 25 March with ups and downs and two cats --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:31, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
The Smerus I met is too intelligent to leave Wikipedia over one opera infobox. I imagine that Chopin hurt him more, and the obvious tendency. What makes me so sad is that there was a time when he accepted the compromise that Brian Boulton added to Chopin, as consensus. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
happy to see that Smerus has edited --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Maria Giustina Turcotti
Is any use to you? Could also get a higher-resolution fat version, but it seems... A little like encouraging her critics. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 13:40, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Adam Cuerden Thank you for another positive image. Sadly, most of the published scholarship on Turcotti is about her weight. Over half of her biographical entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is focused on her size and the negative comments about her weight. That entry also failed to name a single opera she she performed in. There are also a good number of opera history texts with the Zanetti image which widely focus on Turcotti and her weight. In short, it’s the thing every academic publication on the singer has focused on. There’s also quite a lot of scholarship dedicated to even more nasty quotes that are weight related in critical reviews, as well as a number of devastatingly mean comments about her weight in private letters written by her colleagues and employers. A lot more has been written on this topic in academic books used in the article, and I really only provided the brief highlights. There are whole letters for example by Mingotti and Pirker which have been analyzed in scholarship to write about Turcotti and her career. I had to really dig to find other kinds of information on this person, and had to look to sources with basically cast listings of operas to find other materials because all of the biographical RS in academic publications were largely focused on her weight, and sadly not so much on her substantial contributions to 18th century opera in Italy. I am confident that no source but Wikipedia has such a flattering and positive portrait of the singer, as this at least had pulled together sources to mention her appearances in original opera productions by important composers; something academic biographical entries on the singer have largely overlooked.4meter4 (talk) 17:20, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hi 4meter4, in your good and welcome article on Turcotti you write she was a “gifted singer of coloratura”, but this styling doesn't seem very pertinent to me. In their article on Turcotti in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Dennis Libby and Carlo Vitali state that “she seems to have been primarily a dramatic singer in a mostly syllabic style (range approximately b♭ to g’’), without much brilliance or bravura”, although she was also able to master elaborate coloratura (as well as all major singers in the Eighteenth Century).
In fact, I often found her name associated with Vittoria Tesi, another great singer-actress of the first part of the century, also coming from Florence and not primarily excelling in coloratura as well. The first time I heard her name was at a 1985 wonderful revival of Pergolesi’s Adriano in Siria, where she had created the prima donna role of Emirena. This role is certainly not an acrobatic and flamboyant one and the two most skilled coloratura singers in the cast, Mariella Devia and Daniela Dessì, took on two other roles that are much more demanding in terms of coloratura, Farnaspe and Sabina.
I leave it to your appreciation whether or not to edit the article.--Jeanambr (talk) 17:39, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
PS: I can't help but get the unsourced impression that the singer depicted in the first drawing might not be Maria Giustina Turcotti.- @Jeanambr Yes I am familiar with the Libby quote which I think was a potentially ill conceived assessment because it was based on an incomplete picture of Turcotti's career. At the time Libby wrote that article only a small amount of her repertoire was is evidence. The trouble with the scholarship as written at present on Turcotti is nobody has really looked at all her repertoire in its entirety, and honestly only recently have scholars writing on Venetian opera actually located and catalogued a significant number of operas that she performed in (as in the last two to fifteen years); hence why my article was able to include many more opera roles than in the Grove publications (Libby's article is 31 years old now and is significantly outdated in relation to the recent published scholarship). Selfridge-Field (2007) and Over and Nieden (2021) have provided a much larger picture of her repertoire in Italy than was previously known (but without any analysis in terms of Turcotti's vocal range/abilities), and for this reason, I am hesitant to trust any scholarly assessment that hasn't taken a look at the many previously unknown opera roles in Turcotti's performance repertoire which are now in evidence. This would require looking at recently found opera scores that have been largely neglected in academic writing as well as performance. I also note, that based on reviews and letters in Over and Nieden, I question the previously held argument that Turcotti was having a vocal decline which ended her career in Italy (which Libby argues based on what evidence?). Reviews of her later years in Italy seemed to remain positive of her singing, and largely were negative about her appearance and stage deportment due to her weight gain. I sincerely doubt that Mingotti and the wealthy Bayreuth Court, who could have their pick of top notch talent, would have kept her on if she wasn't in fine vocal form; particularly as her voice seems to have been her only major asset as an entertainer. Additionally, no researcher has looked at her rep in Germany, and a researcher could probably dig up her opera roles in her late career. In short, this is an area where a music historian/musicologist could do some new valuable work, and potentially have something new to say on Turcotti's singing and her unusually long career. Best.4meter4 (talk) 05:15, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hi 4meter4, in your good and welcome article on Turcotti you write she was a “gifted singer of coloratura”, but this styling doesn't seem very pertinent to me. In their article on Turcotti in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Dennis Libby and Carlo Vitali state that “she seems to have been primarily a dramatic singer in a mostly syllabic style (range approximately b♭ to g’’), without much brilliance or bravura”, although she was also able to master elaborate coloratura (as well as all major singers in the Eighteenth Century).
- Chiming in: I admire what you did to get her recognized as a performer! - Born OTD: another stage artist, Cathinka Buchwieser, at a time when actress and opera performer wasn't distinguished, and both dubious in society. If I was a researcher I'd look into Turcotti's German repertoire. If you find something and just want help with translation or language clarification, call me! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
- New topic: sadly Javier Álvarez (composer) died, whose article you began. Can you help with referencing? I'll do some, but Spanish isn't a language I speak (besides menu reading in restaurants). Perhaps SusunW can help (again), even if this is a man. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hip deep with real life right now, but still trying to get in a bit of editing. If you can't find another Spanish speaker, I'm glad to help Gerda Arendt, but won't guarantee that I can respond immediately, or quickly. SusunW (talk) 15:05, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
- @4meter4 I completely agree with you about the shortcomings and gaps in the historical research on the figure of Turcotti, and I fully share Gerda's appreciation of your article, which I have even half a mind to translate, sooner or later, into Italian. However, I cannot identify which historiographical acquisitions after Croll and Vitali allow Turcotti to be styled a “singer of coloratura” (instead of a dramatic one), considering that their Grove article already stated: “evidence from arias written by G.B. Pescetti and Francesco Corselli, however, shows that she could master elaborate coloratura, rhythmically complex divisions and wide pitch leaps”. Cheers. Jeanambr (talk) 08:39, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
- New topic: sadly Javier Álvarez (composer) died, whose article you began. Can you help with referencing? I'll do some, but Spanish isn't a language I speak (besides menu reading in restaurants). Perhaps SusunW can help (again), even if this is a man. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
- Chiming in: I admire what you did to get her recognized as a performer! - Born OTD: another stage artist, Cathinka Buchwieser, at a time when actress and opera performer wasn't distinguished, and both dubious in society. If I was a researcher I'd look into Turcotti's German repertoire. If you find something and just want help with translation or language clarification, call me! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
DYK for Carolina White
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Caroline and Bain
Hi 4meter4, a bit more info on my talk page added by another WP editor. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 22:33, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
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October thanks
Thank you for your voice of reason in the deletion discussion for the Israeli peace song. - Today, my (daily) story is a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt Happy to be of assistance. Thank you for creating an interesting article on a song I was not familiar with. I enjoyed listening to recordings and researching the song while commenting at the AFD.4meter4 (talk) 12:43, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- I met it at a wedding in Germany, with the father of the bride and some guests from Israel. Peace! It's in prep for a DYK on 2 Nov. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:50, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
- Towards the end of the month, I thought of Brian Bouldton, and his ways to compromise, - with musings about peace there, - feel free to join. Hevenu shalom aleichem. Today is Reformation Day, and I believe that reformation is a work in progress. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:37, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for what you put into the peace song, making it survive, - my story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
I added some images from Aachen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for another theatre! - I proudly remember having sung in an oratorio premiere seven years ago OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:10, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Today I have three items on the Main page today, almost too much of a good thing! Bach's amazing cantata with the unusual scale, first performed 300 years ago OTD, the nun for the prostitutes, and Schumann's wedding gift for Clara. Working on Ryland Davies, - perhaps you can add? I'll get over more detail from the GLS tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:50, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Davies looks much better. Today is St. Martin's Day, which stands for sharing. Thank you for sharing music! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:39, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
User Talk:Gerda Arendt#Mozart Requiem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for the article! - Today, I managed to updated my images to Paris (trip begun on 29 Nov) with a visit to the Palais Garnier, - to match the story of Medea Amiranashvili, - don't miss listening to her expressive voice. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Lee Orean Smith
Lee Orean Smith's father was the musical director of a theatre orchestra.
You wrote this in Lee Orean Smith. Just curious on where the source about this is. I'm sort of researching about composers like him. Komitsuki (talk) 04:35, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
- See the cited source. The entire paragraph is cited to Rehrig, William H.; Bierley, Paul E. (1991). "Lee Orean Smith". The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music, Volume II. Integrity Press. ISBN 9780918048080. I had a physical copy of the book but you can access the book online in its updated version (other authors have since expanded the encyclopedia in its online form) through subscription at https://www.acbands.org/hebm There is also a blog which talks about his father making a living as a pharmacist while leading a local orchestra https://blog.wabash.edu/dearoldwabash/2019/09/30/tin-pan-alley-alum/ (I left this out as it is a blog) Rehrig and Bierley describe the orchestra as a theatre orchestra. If I remember rightly there is also an interview in Metronome magazine from September 1922 in which Smith relates details about training as a musician under his father and playing in theatre orchestras. I also left this out because it was not an independent source. Best.4meter4 (talk) 06:45, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
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Happy New Year, 4meter4!
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Same location pictured as 2019. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:49, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:41, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Draft:The Red Moon
I would be happy to have help with this draft if you're interested. FloridaArmy (talk) 13:14, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- @FloridaArmy I have some ongoing projects at the moment, but I'll take a look when I can.4meter4 (talk) 15:36, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Draft:The Ham Tree
This is another draft on an interesting show that needs work. FloridaArmy (talk) 16:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
- @FloridaArmy I have some ongoing projects at the moment, but I'll take a look when I can.4meter4 (talk) 20:00, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Bitcoin
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Category:Works about taxi drivers has been nominated for merging
Category:Works about taxi drivers has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Fuddle (talk) 14:10, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
DYK for James Light (director)
On 19 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James Light (director), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that James Light was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan when he staged a play with an interracial couple? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Light (director). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, James Light (director)), 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.
March thanks
Thank you for expanding Cecelia Hall! I think you could try GA even. On Smetana's 200th birthday -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was premiered on 14 March 1864, - when I listen to the desolate Agnus Dei I think of Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:01, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Vacation pics uploaded, at least the first day, - and Aribert Reimann remembered. I think of the theatre, but more people died, one mentioned on project opera. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Next day, around Porto da Cruz, on Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
I enjoy seeing Jean Schwartz pictured on the Main page today! - Johann Strauss Theater begun, - I trust that you can add some of the English sources you mentioned, because it's scarcely referenced in German. I wonder why Lord Piccolo isn't among the premieres. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:38, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your professional help for the conductor who is now on the Main page. I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:31, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Draft:Jack Mills (music publisher)
Would you be aboe to help with this draft? FloridaArmy (talk) 08:17, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Lottie Williams (actress, born 1866)
On 16 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lottie Williams (actress, born 1866), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the actress Lottie Williams was one of the cakewalk dancers depicted on the front cover of the sheet music for Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lottie Williams, actress born 1866. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lottie Williams (actress, born 1866)), 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.
DYK for The Red Moon (Johnson and Cole)
On 19 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Red Moon (Johnson and Cole), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Red Moon (sheet music pictured) was the first Broadway show to depict alliances between African Americans and Native Americans? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Red Moon (Johnson and Cole). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Red Moon (Johnson and Cole)), 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) 00:02, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)
On 23 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall portrayed the lead male role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)), 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.
WaggersTALK 00:03, 23 March 2024 (UTC) Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:42, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Kenneth Raisbeck
On 26 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kenneth Raisbeck, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite falling out with novelist Thomas Wolfe, Kenneth Raisbeck was the basis for a character in Of Time and the River? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kenneth Raisbeck. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kenneth Raisbeck), 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.
DYK for Jean Schwartz
On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jean Schwartz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jean Schwartz and William Jerome (pictured) wrote more than 1,000 popular songs together? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jean Schwartz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jean Schwartz), 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.
DYK for The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that composer Frederick Solomon adapted several British pantomimes into Broadway musicals, including The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (sheet music pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast), 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.
DYK for Frederick Solomon
On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frederick Solomon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that composer Frederick Solomon adapted several British pantomimes into Broadway musicals, including The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (sheet music pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frederick Solomon), 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.
DYK for Henri Berény
On 31 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Henri Berény, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that due to his Hungarian background, composer Henri Berény was banned from living and working in Paris during World War I and his home was seized by the French government? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henri Berény. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Henri Berény), 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.
DYK for Marcelle (musical)
On 6 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marcelle (musical), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that as the title character in Marcelle, actress Louise Gunning portrayed a Parisian barmaid who masquerades as her brother, a soldier? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marcelle (musical). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Marcelle (musical)), 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) 00:02, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Joseph Redding
Hello! Your submission of Joseph Redding 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! Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
April music
Sorry, I'm a bit overwhelmed by deaths, articles here and also in real life. Please excuse my limited interest in discussing things that will result in a few 100 views more or less, if at all, in that perspective. Notker Wolf, for example. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm a bit overwhelmed by deaths, and am slowly working on the articles for two of those for which new sources need to be incorporated before they can be nominated (two others are on the Main page right now), and the funeral in real life is on 12 April. I read your review with interest and thought I'd work on that article afterwards. But the load of tags in the article puts me under pressure. Do you understand? I suggest I ask questions here, and then remove the tags one by one when you agree.
- Summary of the conductor's position. She has an article - I thought. It's not "opinion" but as quick a summary as I could think. She had a different position when she founded the orchestra than she has now, which is the first woman as music director of an Italian opera house, in Bologna. How detailed would you want it? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- I tried to split two run-ons, insert three positions for the conductor (with two references from her bio), tried "this orchester" once (didn't want to say Bundesjugendorchester twice in a row), and made the connection between Lviv and the conductor. Too tired for more. To be continued but only after the first of the two RD is nominated. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:20, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt Take your time. Don't feel pressured to get this done today or even this week. Take as much time as you need.4meter4 (talk) 22:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- I woke up to this invitation, thank you. To take my time was my intention, but seeing the article tags made me feel under pressure, and I can't help that feeling. My brain tells me that they were written in order to help and that it shouldn't matter to have my incompetence publicly displayed, but my stomach doesn't listen. - I feel better now, having succeeded to integrate more obituaries for Michael Boder, even one in English, and thrown out two company refs as less reliable, according to your words. - I worked on the first paragraph for the orchestra around midnight, please check. The time to continue will be after some hours of real life. Tomorrow's funeral with travel will keep me away most of that day, choir rehearsal same on Saturday, and I try not to work on Sundays. Therefore I'd like to get the article somewhat improved later today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- The day went not as planned, but in the end I got to some copy-editing: shorter sentences, more links and explanations. Please check. I asked a few users to help copy-editing and finding sources, perhaps in Ukrainian. Bedtime. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:01, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- My story today is about a piece composed for the Second Sunday after Easter 300 years ago, and I just returned from a (long) Handel opera about the same age. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- The last of 6 RD articles is on the Main page now - relief. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:11, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- (followed by two birthdays) - I added a new hook to the Holender nom, in case of interest. Nice to see another opera singer on the Main page, even pictured, - funny that his name is Holland ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:50, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- today a sad task - memory of Andrew Davis - turned into entertainment (yt at the bottom of his article, actually both) -- the latest pictures capture extreme weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the singer DYK today! The Ukrainian youth orchestra is in the same set, - thank you again for your sourcing contributions, as a constructive reviewer! - My brother is pictured with the Marta concert. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:41, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt Take your time. Don't feel pressured to get this done today or even this week. Take as much time as you need.4meter4 (talk) 22:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for George W. Munroe
On 12 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article George W. Munroe, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Broadway and vaudeville star George W. Munroe (pictured) was known for his comic female impersonations of elderly Irish women? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/George W. Munroe. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, George W. Munroe), 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.
Gatoclass 12:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
George W. Munroe
Fascinating article; great job! Josh Milburn (talk) 13:43, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Josh Milburn Thank you for the kind words. I enjoyed writing it.4meter4 (talk) 15:52, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Silvio Hein
On 13 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Silvio Hein, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after Broadway musical composer Silvio Hein died in 1928, the pallbearers at his funeral included Irving Berlin, John Philip Sousa, and Jerome Kern? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Silvio Hein. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Silvio Hein), 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.
—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Josef Weiss
On 15 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Josef Weiss, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that pianist and composer Josef Weiss created the first film score in the history of German cinema? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Josef Weiss. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Josef Weiss), 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.
DYK for Robert Winterberg
On 16 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robert Winterberg, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1906, composer Robert Winterberg gave a concert for the queen of Romania? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Winterberg. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Robert Winterberg), 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) 00:02, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for a much needed article, and not even in German yet. It's featured on Portal:Germany, pictured and with music. What landed on the Main page would not have attracted me, - I only looked because of the German name as possibly interesting for the Portal (and yes, he was!). I am not liked on WP:ERRORS, but think the change should be discussed on WT:DYK, and also better not by me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt Thanks for the kind words. The original hook was brought up at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Prep7#Robert Winterberg where there were many editors complaining the hook was boring. I went with the Queen of Romania thing because they were threatening to not feature the article at all. I too found the other hook more interesting, but then, like you, I am somewhat knowledgable about German operetta in comparison to the average person. The original hook would have been more interesting to someone who likes opera and musical theatre history. The queen of Romania hook was probably more interesting to a general audience. Thanks for taking the time to feature the original hook in the portal.4meter4 (talk) 16:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. As you may have seen, I didn't know anything about the history when I saw the two hooks, and had no time to find out, and made my choice for Portal:Germany, where the other hook would have not supplied any connection, while a piece in German and successful in German was a simple connection. I found out about the discussion only later, and commented there. I think this "interesting to a broad readership" is trying to achieve something impossible, and believe it would be better if it was "interesting to those who find the topic interesting". Liviu Holender, btw, will give a recital tomorrow singing Mahler, Schönberg, Zemlinsky, and others from the period. That's what he is good at. I don't know if I can make it, but am very happy that I won't have to be guilty to report on Wikipedia's Main page trivia such as that he held hands with his wife ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- I have a ticket for the recital. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Wunderbar.4meter4 (talk) 22:42, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, and yes, it was. Very intense, anti-war songs, songs of departure ... - free choice of seats, so I sat quite close to the piano. The baritone sang everything from memory, and introduced the music speaking. Schönberg Op. 1 deserves an article. Korngold and Schreker were the other two composers whose music was banned by the Nazis. - Congrats to the baritone below. On the opera talk and for Portal:Germany, he is pictured. I have no idea why the DYK would miss such a chance to show not only how he looks, but how he acts, and the period (which in the hook could be anywhere anytime). I added "baritone" and the "Berlin State Opera" in both cases, - "an opera star" is as vague as can be. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Wunderbar.4meter4 (talk) 22:42, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt Thanks for the kind words. The original hook was brought up at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Prep7#Robert Winterberg where there were many editors complaining the hook was boring. I went with the Queen of Romania thing because they were threatening to not feature the article at all. I too found the other hook more interesting, but then, like you, I am somewhat knowledgable about German operetta in comparison to the average person. The original hook would have been more interesting to someone who likes opera and musical theatre history. The queen of Romania hook was probably more interesting to a general audience. Thanks for taking the time to feature the original hook in the portal.4meter4 (talk) 16:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Joseph Schwarz (baritone)
On 18 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Schwarz (baritone), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in opposition to his parents, opera star Joseph Schwarz began his career by running away from home to join a band of traveling minstrels? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Schwarz (baritone). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Joseph Schwarz (baritone)), 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.
DYK for Owen Murphy (songwriter)
On 22 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Owen Murphy (songwriter), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Albert Gumble and Owen Murphy's music score for the Broadway musical Red Pepper was dismissed by one critic as not "real music" because of its embrace of jazz? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Owen Murphy (songwriter). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Owen Murphy (songwriter)), 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.
DYK for Albert Gumble
On 22 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Albert Gumble, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Albert Gumble and Owen Murphy's music score for the Broadway musical Red Pepper was dismissed by one critic as not "real music" because of its embrace of jazz? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Owen Murphy (songwriter). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Albert Gumble), 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.
DYK for Red Pepper (musical)
On 22 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Red Pepper (musical), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Albert Gumble and Owen Murphy's music score for the Broadway musical Red Pepper was dismissed by one critic as not "real music" because of its embrace of jazz? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Owen Murphy (songwriter). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Red Pepper (musical)), 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.
DYK for Olga von Türk-Rohn
On 30 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Olga von Türk-Rohn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn (pictured) was celebrated for her interpretations of Franz Schubert's lieder? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Olga von Türk-Rohn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Olga von Türk-Rohn), 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.
Draft:William Stuckenholz
Would you be able to help with this subject? FloridaArmy (talk) 13:55, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Joseph Redding
On 7 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Redding, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that opera composer and librettist Joseph Redding (pictured) was also a chess polymath and lawyer who won a landmark decision before the United States Supreme Court? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Redding. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Joseph Redding), 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.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for this article! Unique SCOTUS cases are always fascinating to me, and to find someone involved in both music and SCOTUS cases? How very specific but very impressive! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 00:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the article about a man with many talents! - On the bicentenary of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, I remember our recent uplifting choral concert in pictures, on my user page and in my concerts (leading to the two at the church's article). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Today is the Feast of the Ascension for which Bach composed his oratorio, - perhaps watch a bit how the closing movement was performed in Bach's church. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Magdalena Hinterdobler is on the Main page today, together with the opera that you thought was not interesting and too obscure for our general readers. The soprano thought differently, - listen and see. The conductor said that in that interview that it was the first unabridged version ever. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Doom (2016 video game) - today's TFA is again by Vami --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:44, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. Both - DYK and OTD - were hard work, I confess. In the end I like the hook with five composers the Nazis banned even better than the one you found boring. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:01, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Lester Allen
On 10 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lester Allen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Broadway and film star Lester Allen began his career as a child acrobat in the Barnum and Bailey Circus? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lester Allen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lester Allen), 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.
DYK for Frank Croxton
On 13 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frank Croxton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that singer Frank Croxton performed a duet with his father for the unveiling of a monument to a Confederate States Army general? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Croxton. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frank Croxton), 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.
theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Agnes Kimball
On 14 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Agnes Kimball, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that although Agnes Kimball was a popular recording artist of opera and musical theatre, she never appeared as a singing actress on the stage? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Agnes Kimball. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Agnes Kimball), 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.
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Category:Works set in abandoned buildings and structures has been nominated for renaming
Category:Works set in abandoned buildings and structures has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
A Barnstar for you
Draft:Alto Oates
Greetings! Is this subject notable? FloridaArmy (talk) 18:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- FloridaArmy She probably is. There's quite a lot of newspaper coverage in newspapers.com; mainly from 1920-1940 but with some coverage in the late 1910s and into the 1950s. Not much appears to have been written about her in books though. She does get a brief and not that positive mention in Blacks in Blackface She does get more positive coverage in this journal article: Black Delilahs: Black Female Sexuality and Resistance in Progressive Era New York City Ultimnately building an article will require going through newspaper archives with this particular person.4meter4 (talk) 20:12, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. It is okay if I repost your findings to the entry's talkpage? 20:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- FloridaArmy I did it for you. Best.4meter4 (talk) 21:31, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. It is okay if I repost your findings to the entry's talkpage? 20:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Lyceum Theatre (Boston)
On 3 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lyceum Theatre (Boston), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lyceum Theatre (Boston). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lyceum Theatre (Boston)), 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.
Thank you SO much!
Thank you so much for your work on Masi Asare. I so appreciate you getting her into the mainspace and helping make her article better! Wikipedian339 (talk) 16:48, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Wikipedian339 Happy to help. Thank you for working on this article.4meter4 (talk) 16:51, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- By the way, I'm not sure if this interests you at all, but there is one more BMI alum I made a draft for who's not on wikipedia yet, but I do think seems pretty notable to me. Draft:Dan Mertzlufft
- If you're interested, you can take a look, but if not, no worries, I'm sure someone eventually will. Wikipedian339 (talk) 18:21, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Richmond Theatre (Richmond, Virginia)
On 7 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Richmond Theatre (Richmond, Virginia), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that three of the four Richmond Theatres were destroyed by fire, of which the 1811 fire was described as "early America's first great disaster"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Richmond Theatre (Richmond, Virginia). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Richmond Theatre (Richmond, Virginia)), 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.
RoySmith (talk) 00:12, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the article, and I'm sorry we didn't get it pictured (in a different set, - today's image is strong and I would not have wanted to miss that either). - Please return to the Kerck nom, about primary source vs. promotional source. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
The article Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano) that you expanded and referenced is now a good article; see Talk:Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano) for comments about the article, and Talk:Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)/GA1 for the nomination. Thank you for your share, you deserve credit more than I do. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:54, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your share in Daniela Kerck! The image in my 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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:36, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
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