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Enjoy today's story, related to my topic of the year: 300 years Bach's chorale cantatas, and the first was written for today. The music opens with a French overture for a chorale fantasy. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Today is a feast day for which Bach composed a chorale cantata in 1724 (and we had a DYK about it in 2012). Can't believe that Jodie Devos had to die, - don't miss her video from the Opéra-Comique at the end, - story to come. The weekend brought plenty of music sung and listened to, and some of it is reflected in the last two stories! + pics of good food with good company --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your messages on my talk! - The image in my DYK 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, with various scenes to the end of the music that Puccini was able to finish before he died in 1924. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty fifth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,422 last month to 19,543 on 29 June 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 220 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,085 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
General Election
This month will see the General Election take place with a raft of boundary changes for the constituencies, thanks to the boundary commission review. A lot of work has been done on updating the constituency articles to cover the changes and new articles created for the new constituencies. Once results are in there will be changes to make to all of the candidate articles to show their new status as MP or not as the case may be. There will also be changes to make to the settlement articles to show the new MP and may be change the constituency if the boundary changes affect it.
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The story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen, and perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and yes that was too much for the Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! - Yesterday I listened in concert to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, with Sabine Meyer (click on music, always). - Today's story is about Ruth Hesse, with a pic in the article only, sadly. I found it difficult to point at a YouTube sample, because yes, her signature roles - the Nurse and Brangäne - exist in great full-length operas with great casts, but hard to find her. - Talking of YouTube: today I was pointed at Elijah by a friend who performed in the concert of the Dessoff Choirs in their centenary year, and I'm quite impressed by samples (beginning and No. 32 where I linked it) - enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:10, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Just a look at music (on my talk) shows remembrance of three people who died, and creating an article or improving one is all I can do. Three are on the Main page today, and three others planned ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,543 last month to 19,698 on 29 July 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 218 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 94 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,104 articles.
Currently we have seventy seven Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Yorkshire Day
Happy Yorkshire Day to all project members, official celebrations this year take place in York. May be if anyone is in York could get some pictures of the celebrations would be useful. The York article is about to loose it's GA status as it has been under review and is in need of work. Would be good if members could take time to update and keep it as a Good article.
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Seeing your query about ABCT and their web pages, I have a Linux shell script that collects all their data and stores it in csv-like format. If you let me have an address for e-mail, I'll be glad to share it. Be warned however that it is horribly slow. If you asks very nicely, I could even - for a short while - display my own mail address here. But perhaps there is no need. Kindly from Portugal, Jan olieslagers (talk) 20:17, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Fabulous, thank you! I would love to see it. I have emailed you from your userpage ... did that work? Cheers, DBaK (talk) 20:24, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
I am afraid it didn't. But I cannot even find any email address on my own user page... perhaps due to my own stupidity. Quite likely that the address you found and used is an old one. Anyway, kindly send your message again, to [edited] 123@xyz Jan olieslagers (talk) 20:42, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Also ... nosey Q time ... which instrument(s) are you an amateur on, and when you say Fado are you including Mariza???? Cheers DBaK (talk) 20:27, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
instruments are mainly the chromatic accordion, and a little bit of electric bass; plus recorder flutes, and a few more. As for the fado in general and Mariza in particular, I don't think this is the right place to discuss them :) Would go better over a glass of tinto. Jan olieslagers (talk) 20:42, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Today I have two "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of my story, watch and listen, - I like today's especially because you see him at work, hear him talk about his work and the result of his work - rare! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:02, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:35, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Today's story is about education, 10 years OTD after lecturing our founder). Music for today's feast is Monteverdi's, the best concert we ever did (so pictured again on my talk), but it wasn't recorded, substituted with a "Pacific" one that comes with subtitles line by line in Latin and English: I learned something! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Wiki Loves Monuments
We failed on keeping York as a good article as it was down graded as the previous newsletter was being published. This month is the annual Wiki Loves Monuments, may be we can do better this month and get some relevant photographs in the Yorkshire area that are listed buildings without photographs.
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