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Here Zhao Mengfu depicts the changing seasons with profound vibrancy and delicacy. The artist brought the work to his friend Zhou Mi—who had been exiled for refusing to work in the Mongol-controlled court—in hopes of comforting him with a reminder of the home to which he will never return. Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains, Zhao Mengfu, 1295

March music[edit]

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in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:49, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cool pieces! Love the Hildegard statue. Gerda, have you ever sang anything by Frank Martin in any of your many choirs? Aza24 (talk) 02:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No, regarded as too difficult. Pepping, Britten The Company of Heaven, Nystedt, Sandström ... but not Martin. Le Vin herbé seen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Gotcha. My choir did Martin recently, but only a single movement from his mass. That movement alone was quite tricky! I can't imagine doing the whole thing (but would love to one day) Aza24 (talk) 03:54, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good for you! - va pensiero --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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) 22:08, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Vacation pics uploaded, at least the first day, - and Aribert Reimann remembered who knew voices. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:39, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Next day, around Porto da Cruz, on Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:56, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:11, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Two days later in time, early Bach music for Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have been obsessively listening to the opening of Bach's St. Matthew Passion recently. So sublime! Aza24 (talk) 04:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. What do you think of the opening of BWV 66, my story today, with a link to YouTube? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GT promotion bot issue[edit]

Hi Aza24! I noticed that this GT promotion with Novem Linguae's bot didn't seem to work (although I can't work out why)—apologies if either of you knew this already and were working on it. — Bilorv (talk) 18:16, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Yeah, I hadn't noticed the second time. I'm not sure what's wrong either, if Novem isn't sure I may just do a manual promotion in the mean time. Aza24 (talk) 19:27, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bilorv sorry for the delay. I ended up manually promoting it pending bot investigation (the bot struck on a second article!) Aza24 (talk) 05:19, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is the fix if this happens in the future. The bot looks for a certain pattern, and having numbers missing from the pattern confuses it. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:52, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery FAC[edit]

Hi, I am looking for reviewers of this FAC, which has been struggling to attract attention, and I want to make sure it stays afloat. Any chance of some assistance? Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 21:26, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Amitchell125, nice to hear from you. I'm happy to take a look but it may be later this week. I've left a comment on the review page so the coords now I'm planning to take a look. Best – Aza24 (talk) 04:03, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copland[edit]

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Thank you for support for Copland, and please keep watching. I think the key to the revert may be found on Vivaldi. I passed a note on Classical music, to little result. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:11, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I like to see Appalachian Spring on the Main page today (not by me as you will know, just interested and reviewed), and I also made it my story. - How do you like the statue (look up places) - I was undecided so show three versions ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:10, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is an incredible statue! Wow! Much better than other attempts at composer portraiture... Aza24 (talk) 07:06, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! - Today I see Marian Anderson as my top story (by NBC, 1939), and below three people with raised arms, - and the place is the cherry blossom in Frauenstein --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Anderson is awesome. You'd be surprised by how many singer friends of mine consider her one of their idols. Aza24 (talk) 22:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Last year when the same story came up it was Easter Sunday, as in 1939, so I had no time, but today I listened to the full concert, so moving - incredibly different voices for the last two spirituals, and such an intimate ending for that crowd. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
plum tree blossom for Kalevi Kiviniemi in the snow - see my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My story today is about a piece composed for the Second Sunday after Easter 300 years ago, and I just returned from a (long) opera about the same age, with soprano Pretty Yende --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:59, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
relief: the last of six RD articles in one week is now on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Precious
Four years!
I am happy that Kathleen Ferrier made it to the Main page, in the fourth attempt. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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) 21:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Andrew Davis (conductor)[edit]

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Coding question[edit]

Hi, Aza! I am trying to get the sfnm template to work with individual harvid cites, but can't seem to figure it out. Any thoughts? ~ Silence of Järvenpää 20:37, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Silence of Järvenpää, could you give an example? For sfnm you have to be rather careful with the numbers: i.e. you have to do {{sfn|1a1=author|1y=year|1p=page|2a1=author|2y=year|2p=page}} – Aza24 (talk) 04:51, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi!! For example, at Discography of Sibelius symphony cycles#Projected cycles in progress, I am trying to get the four cites for Santtu-Matias Rouvali to combine into one reference. These entries use all harvid. I tried the following code but it didn't work:
  • {{sfnm|1a=S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 440)|1y=2019|2a=S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 574)|2y=2020|3a=S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 645)|3y=2022|4a=S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 1008)|4y=2023}}
I also tried these two, but they, too, didn't work:
  • {{sfnm|1a={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 440)}}|1y=2019|2a={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 574)}}|2y=2020|3a={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 645)}}|3y=2022|4a={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 1008)}}|4y=2023}}
  • {{sfnm|1ref={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 440)|2019}}|2ref={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 574)|2020}}|3ref={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 645)|2022}}|4ref={{harvid|S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 1008)|2023}}}}
Any ideas? Thanks! ~ Silence of Järvenpää 19:15, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey @Silence of Järvenpää, I think all you need is a second number for the authors. So have 1a1 for S. Rouvali–Alpha (ALPHA 440); followed by 2a1, 3a1 and 4a1 (I do this in my example above). The 1 would be changed if there were multiple authors (i.e. {{sfnm|1a1=Smith|1a2=Fellowes|1y=...}} Let me know if this works!
Also, the AV media template has an OCLC parameter, so you don't have to separate it from the citation. Aza24 (talk) 06:45, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Aza! It worked ... ugh, can't believe I missed those 1s. Also, I owe you an email soon! Hope you've been well. ~ Silence of Järvenpää 19:05, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Emirates Cup promotion[edit]

Hi Aza, I just wanted to ask if there was a problem with the promotion of the Emirates Cup topic? The discussion is closed but it hasn't been archived, nor has the delisted topic been updated. Thanks in advance :) Idiosincrático (talk) 09:12, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Idiosincrático, good catch, sorry about that. Since this is the promotion of old topic, the bot can't do it. I'll plan to do it manually tomorrow (please bother me if I forgot!) Aza24 (talk) 06:31, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Idiosincrático, this should all be sorted now! Thanks for your patience – Aza24 (talk) 01:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

May music[edit]

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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) 21:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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) 21:40, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Magdalena Hinterdobler is on the Main page today, together with an opera that reviewers deemed not interesting and too obscure for our general readers. The soprano thought differently, - listen and see. - Also on the Main page: a TFA by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:12, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

did you listen and see? - today's story has a pic of a woman holding her cat, a DYK of 5 years ago - the recent pics show 2 orange tip butterflies --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:29, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Green GA Editathon June 2024 - Going Back in Time[edit]

Hello Aza24:

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Schumann[edit]

Greetings, Aza24! I hope I'm not being a nuisance in wondering if you think you'll be able to add any more to your valuable contribution to the Robert Schumann peer review page? Happy to wait, if so. If not I'll close the review and head off to FAC. Best wishes, Tim riley talk 17:06, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there @Tim riley—thank you for the heads up! I'll plan to look either tomorrow or the day after. Best – Aza24 (talk) 02:25, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Splendid! I look forward to it. Tim riley talk 07:22, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Tim riley, I believe you forgot to include Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Robert Schumann/archive1 on the FAC page. Aza24 (talk) 18:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aargh! Have I messed up the procedures yet again? Would it be too much to ask you to do the necessary for me? Sorry about this. Tim riley talk 18:39, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Happy to oblige! I've now done so, see [1]. – Aza24 (talk) 18:43, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm most grateful - thank you so much! Tim riley talk 06:34, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June music[edit]

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Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. - Do you think we should disconnect the list of a composer's works from his article? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comp lists make sense in Infoboxes, but I don't see such discussions really worth the effort. When it was discussed ad nauseam on Vivaldi, the Vivaldi article itself was left unchanged and in a rather regrettable state. Aza24 (talk) 19:41, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For Schumann, it was stable for years, and not only was the removal not discussed, but also performed in an unclear action that I missed. But I am described as disruptive, in the same breath as proudly announcing that the infobox was "retained". I call that kafkaesque. (Talk:Gustav Mahler). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Surely much of Wikipedia is kafkaesque, but I suppose that's part of the fun :) Aza24 (talk) 22:17, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am for fun, but removing the link to a composer's works has not the slightest fun component for me. The works would be within the same article for less prolific people, and should remain as accessible as possible when split off. Perhaps I have a limited sort of humour but "rotten trick" (as in the Schumann FAC) is also not within my fun range. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:26, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. I hope you can understand my hesitation to get in the weeds for such disputes. But at least the Schumann article is much approved! Aza24 (talk) 22:34, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Everybody hesitates to get in the weeds, and I remain as a person playing rotten tricks, allegedly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:47, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Great to have Stravinsky as FA now! With the "rotten trick" ;) - 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) 13:58, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You made my day by restoring the works to Copland that I had added 2 April. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:55, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Uncited information is uncited information ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Aza24 (talk) 20:57, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good luck with making that understood ;) - 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) 19:43, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Graciousness[edit]

Your rethinking of your earlier comments at VPP regarding the OKA issue (paid translations) was gracious and is a good example of one of the attributes of a good editor, namely the ability to reevaluate evidence and change one's mind, as you did. (This has nothing to do with what "side" you ended up on.) If you found any part of my reply directed towards you off-putting, I apologize. Keep doing what you're doing; I value your opinions now more than before. Mathglot (talk) 21:16, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mathglot, thanks for this. I found myself talking with a tone/approach that I despise in others. Cheesy as it is, considering The Analects is quite literally beside my desk, I was a bit disappointed in myself. In any case, my best to you as well. Aza24 (talk) 22:14, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Co ordinator[edit]

Hello, I appreciate your email requesting me to become a coordinator for the GTs and I would be definitely willing to accept a nomination! K. Peake 16:48, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, thanks so much for your interest @Kyle Peake! Just so you know, it would be for both FTs and GTs, since the projects are closely linked. I'll get the formal nomination rolling in the coming days. Aza24 (talk) 18:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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