User talk:MerlinVtwelve

My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

The guy definitely had a sense of humour! You've got me thinking about his Carmen Suite now. I looked it up on Apple Classical and there are more than 15 versions available. However the version I am familiar with is with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. It doesn't seem to be there, so I might have to get out the Soviet version I have on a Melodiya LP. It's a great recording with very good sound quality. merlinVtwelve (talk) 20:48, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

A soprano pictured on DYK, a soprano and a composer and a bassoonist on RD, and a composer with the pic of the day: a good day for classical music! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:28, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Good to see! merlinVtwelve (talk) 20:48, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! - I enjoy a DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:46, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

And today Holst is in DYK! See below... merlinVtwelve (talk) 06:41, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, lovely! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:42, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

... and Arvo Pärt OTD, 90! Did you know that it took me some trouble to get him to the main page? Listen! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I will listen to some Bach today – something choral perhaps. merlinVtwelve (talk) 20:38, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Most stories come with something to watch, this one has Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:10, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

My 100th biography to the Main page in 2025 is Siegmund Nimsgern. To listen: a full opera of about 4 hours ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:18, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

John Rutter 80 today! I sang his major choral works with four choirs, and many of his uplifting anthems, 13 DYK? I watched him explain his Magnificat in person in 1998, and now see it on Youtube: he wore the same outfit. - There's a discussion for Joseph Haydn. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

My story today is about the principal violin of the Concentus Musicus; she would have been 95 OTD. I felt connected when the second oboist of our recent concert, of Haydn's Stabat Mater, said that he built an English horn for his performance of the work with the Concentus Musicus. - Concert weekend pictured in "places". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:42, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

You've reminded me that I need to get to know Haydn better – I'll give the Stabat Mater a try. As a light diversion, I have been listening to Nahre Sol on YouTube. She'll take a well-known modern tune, such as Fly Me to the Moon and play it in the style of Bach, Mozart and other composers – even Arvo Pärt! merlinVtwelve (talk) 23:14, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, - listened to Pärt's Tabula rasa yesterday, fascinated! - Haydn: you could with little effort just say if places of death should be part of Haydn's infobox, link above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the Haydn comment, but I wasn't clear: some infobox is back, only which parameters to fill need discussion. I collapsed the confusing part, which includes your comment. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Oops, my apologies! OK, let me ponder this one for a while... merlinVtwelve (talk) 08:28, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

No problem. I like what you said there! - Today I could have told many stories, - St. Michael's Day (The Company of Heaven) and the anniversary of our performance of the Mass in B minor in 2013. I picked the composition (and its author) that was on DYK in the morning, and you can listen. I also show a collection of DYK around people called Michael on my user page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

—Kusma (talk) 00:02, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hey @Kusma thanks, that's very exciting! Cheers merlinVtwelve (talk) 08:09, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for improving article quality in October! Today Sequenza III on Luciano Berio's centenary. You can listen with the score or to the first performer, Cathy Berberian (link in the work's article), - I couldn't decide ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:03, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

300 years ago: Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79, on the occasion for which it was written, Reformation Day - it's not only Halloween today. You are invited to the peer reviews for another candidate. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Look, today's image, - she "portrayed" herself with her husband at the end of the table, - would have been good for Thanksgiving ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:01, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Replying to .

This is because there's a romanization divide between South Korea and the international Korean studies community.

"Chŏng Hongnae" is the McCune–Reischauer (MR) spelling, "Jeong Hongrae" is the Revised Romanization (RR) spelling. Before 2000, MR was used both in South Korea and abroad. However, South Korea passed RR to great controversy in 2000; many major international Korean studies scholars disliked it, and refused to use it. MR remained the standard abroad. Not everyone feels passionately about this; many just follow the status quo of doing MR, and others abandon it and do RR.

Most recent academic history books published in English about Korea use MR. I have a tally running here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/Romanizations in books. This is the reason why we prefer MR for historical figures, but I'm personally increasingly skeptical of this. Most places online will follow RR. Few people read academic books on Korea. Thus, MR seems alien to the majority of people.

As for hyphens in names, both MR and RR discourage the use of hyphens in given names. Despite this, it's the standard in Western journalism, and around half of Korean studies scholars hyphenate names.

Complicated. grapesurgeon (talk) 19:32, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Yes, a slight tangent. Thanks very much for the detailed explanation – indeed it sounds somewhat complicated. I'll keep this in mind in future if I can think of any notable artists/people who need to have a page started.

As a matter of fact, since I posted that query on the talk page, an IP editor has added some Korean naming infoboxes to the relevant pages, and those definitely help to clarify the RR/MR situation. Cheers merlinVtwelve (talk) 06:31, 24 February 2026 (UTC)