User talk:SilkTork

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SilkTork

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June music

Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious about Gertrud Leutenegger, but her books do not appear to be translated into English. Perhaps that is something you could do? SilkTork (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

July music

No, literary translation isn't what I could do. - If you like Brahms, I recommend the streaming of yesterday's concert. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today is Bastille Day, commemorated by a DYK as my "story" and a visit to the Bastille Opera in "music". I like the interview coming with the story, on the day before the big event, but for pomp and circumstance, the affair with 600 singing children and orchestra, and the singer dressed in the national flag, was also captured on videos, much slower. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:33, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three of "my" recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, one my story today, Gary Karr, and I loved to find his breakthrough concert in 1962 as a video. In my music today I match it with 9 other double bassists, 7 conducted by a person who's birthday is today - coincidence ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:34, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August music

The last four stories were about Bach's Mass in B minor (because I heard it), and about three who died, including two women. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:05, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

pics of the feast of the Mass in B minor --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story - short version: ten years ago we had a DYK about a soprano who sang in concerts with me in the choir, - longer: I found today a youtube of an aria she sang with us then, recorded the same year, - if you still have time: our performances were the weekend before the Iraq war ultimatum, and we sang Dona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:00, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading in today's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:55, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On top of my talk: birthday of a great violinist and Requiem for a great friend. We sang Paradisi gloria from the Stabat Mater in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:49, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September music

story · music · places

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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have a rich and expressive life, Gerda. And you are the kindest, most thoughtful person on Wikipedia. SilkTork (talk) 08:04, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, blushing a bit. This week, listening to seven concerts with dear company, sometimes two in a row: I feel blessed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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) 19:33, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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