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I'm so happy that one of the real things will be me! - Today's TFA,
Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory --
Gerda Arendt (
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14:33, 10 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I listened to the Gibbons, impressed, didn't know. Don't miss reading the article about the Vespers, probably the achievement I'm proudest here, and impossible without the sources that Brianboulton passed to me when he realised that He wouldn't be able to write it. - Dear friends who came to listen to our Bach concert bought tickets to listen to Gardiner conducting Bach in Advent, in
Konzerthaus Dortmund, where their last invitation had been - The Vespro della Beata Vergine, with
Philippe Herreweghe. I was amazed how much of the music he assigned to solo voices. The most extreme Vespers were with just 10 singers, the minimum because Nisi Dominus is four two four-part choirs and two tenors singing cantus firmus. --
Gerda Arendt (
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19:23, 14 May 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: The performance was amazing, of course ... what a way to end our journey in London! The small scale and the live performance (as opposed to a recording) made things even more interesting ... there was chanting and an organ improvisation at the start.
Graham87 (
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09:13, 16 May 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: Oh yes, only six days to go now! We'll be on the train leaving at nearly 10AM on Tuesday! @
Drmies:, I finally got my stroopwafels at
Zaanse Schans ... both packaged at the shop in
De Kat paint mill and freshly baked at the bakery near the clock shop ... the fresh one was absolutely delicious, of course! I haven't had a chance to try the packaged ones but any stroopwafel is better than none! Yes, you can call me
a certified addict!
Graham87 (
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17:08, 22 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Ha, I remember that place--it's so weird to see them dipped in chocolate and whatnot--that's for the tourists. I hope you waved across the water to my friends Rob and Joanne. Enjoy!
Drmies (
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17:15, 22 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Drmies: Lol! I got them all plain ... they were perfectly good that way, of course ... but the chocolate/nut dip at the bakery was tempting, I have to admit! Just like when I was in Belgium I took the
Liège waffle without toppings, per tradition. I do draw the line on the
different sauces with fries though .... just salt all the way for me!
Graham87 (
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17:22, 22 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Today's story is my little contribution to Trinity Sunday, with a church named after the Trinity (which I'd have liked to see pictured) and a cantata Bach conducted 300 years ago for the occasion (having composed it 9 years earlier). - How was the Beethoven concert? --
Gerda Arendt (
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19:40, 26 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Great! Nice weather predicted for tomorrow. There are restaurants around the corner of SMM that don't close at 2pm, as less touristy places in Germany tend to do. Is that an idea? I checked the (walled) rose garden in
Eltville: nice flowers, nice smells - for dessert perhaps ;) --
Gerda Arendt (
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10:02, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Gerda Arendt: Sounds great ... yeah I noticed there were a lot of restaurants in that area; glad they'll be open for us. My mother's fairly allergic to flowers and I'm not that in to them ... hanging out afterwards/just exploring the general area sounds fine to us. Can't wait ... I can't believe it's less than 24 hours away now!
Graham87 (
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10:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I suggest Eltville for the hanging out then, it is the only town in the Rheingau with no road between river and town, so quieter with only pedestrians along the river - even bicycles prohibited. It's on the way to Mainz anyway. Castle and a church where our cantor's father was the organist, on top of the roses. - Limburg-Süd is a simple station, just a small building at the track where you arrive. I'll look for two people, one with a white stick, on the platform near the building. --
Gerda Arendt (
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10:21, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Gerda Arendt: Make that two people with no white cane ... I actually barely use mine and, apart from identification, it'd just get in the way for the rest of the time of our visit. I asked Mum and she said it'd be easier if we didn't carry my cane. The picture on my user page should be OK for identification.
Graham87 (
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12:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply
here you go, Haydn pianist - how about writing an article of the place? I found
a video, seems to be the same disk we heard, just without the live singing of the guide. --
Gerda Arendt (
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21:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Gerda Arendt: Wow cool, thanks! That was a limited-time-only performance, though. :-) Cool re video ... I've found various videos too; nothing beats being there live! Re article about the place: probably not, I find article-writing from scratch scary, but you never know!
Graham87 (
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08:32, 29 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I managed to upload images of 25 May, that means Eltville rose garden for your mother to look at without getting allergic reactions, and a shot of SMM from the street. I took one of the sign also, but will feature it along with our visit, like a header ;) --
Gerda Arendt (
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16:22, 31 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Other way around, as it turns out; the Schubert was second. But still an amazing concert; the Schubert was particularly magical! And the acoustics were amazing ... even from the back.
Graham87 (
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20:11, 31 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi Graham87, I wanted to award you this barnstar for your excellent efforts dealing with the less obvious vandals, such as that Guatemala date-changing vandal. You even reverted edits that became superseded by later edits from other editors. All this while you have a vision impairment - awesome! —
AP 499D25(talk)07:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Ah dammit, I should've double-checked. Actually, it was the boy band vandal:
2001:56A:F272:C700:0:0:0:0/64. I noticed you extended the block on the range to a more suitable length and reverted some more edits that other editors hadn't noticed. Great work! —
AP 499D25(talk)08:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Nuisance IP range
While I'm here, could you take a look at the Telstra Australia IP range
203.37.238.0/23 and see if it's worth blocking? I had been noticing quite a number of unconstructive edits on my watchlist from addresses starting with 203.37, so I went through some digging, and oh my goodness! From just this month I found at least a dozen unconstructive / questionable edits from that /23 range that have sat unnoticed by other editors for days, even weeks! Definitely quite a problem here. The rate of disruption from this range is very high - like 20-30 or so of them, every day. The ratio of bad edits is very high too - like maybe 7% of the edits are constructive? So I'm wondering if we could place a long-term block here maybe. I've
reported this range to AIV four hours ago but it's sat there unnoticed while dozens of other reports get actioned upon. I came across
this tidbit which suggests it may be used by schools (or at least some users of the range are schools).
Today's story is about the TFA, by sadly missed
Vami_IV. In my support in 2018, I hoped to do justice to
Schloss Köthen next - which I will begin today, finally, promised. Its Bachsaal was pictured to begin this year year. For more related thoughts and music, look on my talk for
1 June. - The image shows flowers of one rosebush - show your mother - that grew in
Bingen, right across the Rhine from Rüdesheim; its Museum am Strom, partly dedicated to
Hildegard of Bingen, has another copy of her statue by
Karlheinz Oswald. --
Gerda Arendt (
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12:34, 1 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I bet you are also heading for the Leipzig Museum. - 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 (
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21:58, 2 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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Gerda Arendt: Maybe, it's on the list of possibilities ... I've heard it's not as interactive though ... and we've also been to the
one in Brussels, featuring recordings of many of the instruments there. Cool re Bach cantata!
Graham87 (
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08:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I remember our visit (Chor St. Martin) in 2008, with an excellent woman explaining. But of course we relied less on sounds. Perhaps they offer individual tours for people who rely on ears and touch, not eyes? - The personal treatment in Rüdesheim was exceptional! I uploaded a few pics of your visit, - show your dear mother, and ask if she wants to be seen as well.
Franz Kafka died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. --
Gerda Arendt (
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15:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: Their website doesn't say so ... but I'm happy with my instrument traipsing in Brussels, Berlin, and of course Rüdesheim (and I'll be doing more in
Freiberg with
its cathedral and its organs. Mum says she doesn't mind re putting photos of her up. I'll send her some links to your photos when I can (my computer doesn't have a monitor here). I'll get access to the photos we took on mum's phone when we get back to Australia.
Graham87 (
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16:38, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
More specifically
User:Gerda Arendt/Places and songs 2024#28 May (or "places" below the monthly pic, or enter whatever date you are interested in, in the short version, day + 3-letter-month). For your mum's pic: would you - for educational purposes that the Commons should serve - prefer turning the barrel organ or lunch? Or both? - I will have to learn to extract an image from the video at
Eibingen Abbey. -
Gerda Arendt (
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21:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply
... and Rüdesheim has an interlanguage link (now) to the substantial article about the building Brömserhof, which has more about the museum, - some day when people stop dying, today's article is
an actor, --
Gerda Arendt (
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06:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
The St Matthew Passion performance was beyond amazing ... the final chorus almost made me melt, and that takes a lot. The world's best baroque music performers (mostly
Collegium 1704, among
others in the original performance venue [([St. Thomas Church, Leipzig]]) ... couldn't ask for any more than that!
Graham87 (
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21:22, 8 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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Gerda Arendt: We've just had a great time on the organ trip to Freiberg, the home of Gottfried Silbermann, one of the greatest organ-builders of the 18th century! We got to hear two Silbermann organs live ... a brilliant concert, particularly the Bach pieces (see above link for the program)! We went to Silbermann House (his old workshop), where I plade on the model organ. We also learnt about Bach's investments in a silver mine in the area (which helped pay the miners' salaries and never made a profit, like most mining investments in those days), including a lecture on the subject (which was interpreted in English) by
Eberhard Spree [
de, who has written academic papers about it. That'll probably be our last concert for this trip, unfortunately, but I'll let you know if there are any more.
Graham87 (
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17:44, 10 June 2024 (UTC)reply
How impressive! The organ of the Frauenkirche, Dresden was a Silbermann, until the church - like most of Dresden was destroyed by the bombing. It was not restored, - see
Samuel Kummer. - Today I wanted to write a happy song story, on a friend's birthday, but instead we have
the word of thunder on top of it, which would have been better on 2 June, this year's first Sunday after Trinity. The new lilypond - thanks to
DanCherek - is quite impressive. As
my 2 Jun story said: Bach was fired up. -
Today's Main page is rich in music, also
Franz Liszt and a conductor. --
Gerda Arendt (
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14:09, 11 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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Gerda Arendt: Not good, re the destroyed Silbermann organ or re Samuel Kummer's death. We just had a great time at the Bach Museum ... the accessibility was amazing, even better than it said on their website, with Braille/diagrams/audio of almost everything! Including excellent music, of course. While we were there we overheard a bit of a tour conducted by the director of the Bachfest,
Michael Maul ... I know this because he was talking about his discovery of the Bach piece
Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127, but I didn't fully figure out the connection until just now.
Graham87 (
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16:35, 11 June 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: Wow interesting re Noye's Fludde. There was a production of that opera when I was a kid in primary school in Perth. Everyone in my class was invited to audition; only one boy got in (not me), but we learnt a couple of the pieces from it in the process.
Graham87 (
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20:42, 18 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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 (
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14:08, 24 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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Iadmc: Thanks, if you want you can help ... but I think I've gotten most of them and I'm dealing with the residue of my mass-rollback (i.e.
these edits). Not all can or should be undone due to subsequent changes.
Graham87 (
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18:00, 6 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Graham87, I'm confused about your claims of "ghettoization" and the American women novelists issue. As far as I'm aware, various categories are split into male and female, so how is this different, and if we are no longer splitting, why does the category still exist?
Revirvlkodlaku (
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13:56, 7 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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Graham87, I don't understand what you mean. Why include both the broader category (Czech composers) and the narrower one in the same article? That seems to go against everything I've ever seen, where only the subcategory is included. Can you link me to the MOS guideline that mentions this?
Revirvlkodlaku (
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14:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Per my superficial quick look, those looked like relevant references that replaced several cn tags. More of just an FYI. I'll be gone until June 17th and I don't know the full story nor did I do a more in depth look. Sincerely, North8000 (
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19:36, 7 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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North8000: If you want to do a more in-depth look (or at least more in-depth than that user could have possibly done given their rapid rate of editing) and put them back at some point, be my guest. I've opened a SPI. Some of their edits seemed OK; some ... really ... weren't.
Graham87 (
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19:41, 7 June 2024 (UTC)reply