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... and perhaps the most important quote of them all: "This is a community, not a crazy den of pigs." Indeed. It was said a fair while back but is still referred to from time to time.

December music

Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:23, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today, listen to Sequenza XIV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:46, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Working on a cantata with trumpets (!) for hopefully a DYK on New Year's Day (!!), I'd like to suggest an image of trumpets. Which one would you suggest? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:35, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh interesting Q! Sorry about the slow reply – ill at home and somewhat hors de combat.

Are you thinking of a painterly contemporary representation (which often ends up with Reiche) or of a photo of instrument(s) that exist now/again? Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:37, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reiche would work with 1725 and Leipzig too. But it's only a suggestion and you may feel he gets wheeled out too often … ??? DBaK (talk) 21:41, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ill at home! - Don't get bitter, but better ;) - I had a bad cold myself, almost not going to the Gardiner concert, which will tell you how bad. I went anyway and coughed only once, when it was noisy anyway (three trumpets ...). While violin and soprano had been on their softest for the "gedämpften und schachen Stimmen" (and the conductor took an empty seat in the orchestra and enjoyed it). Reiche might be a good idea, - I had only thought of instruments. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:03, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the famous Reiche portrait again. Would you agree that it's probably not an instrument he'd have played at church? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is a woman poet's centenary. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nadolig Llawen

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
Happy Christmas and Best wishes for a peaceful 2025: "Gabriel's Message" performed by the Winchester Cathedral Choir.
("Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen", Basque folk carol)

Martinevans123 (talk) 16:14, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

	A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
	Have a great Christmas, and may 2025 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls or vandals! Cheers SchroCat (talk) 08:33, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Winter Solstice

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Ϣere SpielChequers 21:27, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings

When he took up his hat to go, he gave one long look round the library. Then he turned ... (and Saxon took advantage of this to wag his way in and join the party), and said, "It's a rare privilege, the free entry of a book chamber like this. I'm hoping ... that you are not insensible of it."

(Text on page 17 illustrated in the frontispiece in Juliana Horatia Ewing's Mary's Meadow and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers, illustrated by Mary Wheelhouse, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1915.)

Fowler&fowler «Talk» 04:41, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]