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Precious

flowering Bruckner
Thank you for, passionate lover of flowers shown in excellent pictures, for the quality of your continuous care (passio continuo) for articles on the works by Anton Bruckner, full of music, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 581st recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, thanks for great help and inspiration, - I love flowers and music, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:13, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were recipient no. 581 of Precious, a prize of QAI! - We'll sing in the Brugge Cathedral on Saturday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:05, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Six years precious today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

2019

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019 -

begin it with music and memories

Thank you for your help last year, and your good wishes! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:54, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Please check out "Happy" once more, for a smile, and sharing (a Nobel Peace Prize), and resolutions. I wanted that for 1 January, but then wasn't sad about having our music pictured instead. Not too late for resolutions, New Year or not. DYK that he probably kept me on Wikipedia, back in 2012? By the line (which brought him to my attention, and earned the first precious in br'erly style) that I added to my editnotice, in fond memory? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:31, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

we give thanks

Gratias agimus

You can check out "Happy" once more for more. Psalm 75 on the Main page, and what Bach made of it, and made it my motto for 2019 ;) - Thank you for more Bruckner nd flowers, small and beautiful! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Flora of Lanzarote

January

Lanzarote

Look, there are endemic plants mentioned on Famara, one a stub and 2 ill-links. Could you say more? Are pictured, - I'm looking at it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, I will have a look on it, but I am not sure whether I can say much more. I have no detailed documentation on the endemic flora of the Canary Islands. Furthermore, each Canary Island has his local endemic plants. I was years ago with Ivo Pauwels in Tenerife, but I did not yet photograph plants at that time. Some years later, we went to La Palma; I have then photographed a few endemic plants, some of which remain still unidentified... Greetings, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:20, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Os justi (Bruckner)

In my edit summary, I referred of course to the English spelling typo "manuscrits" (which I corrected to "manuscripts" by adding the "p", as you can see). Not to any conjecture over the number of "manuscripts" there might be, singular or plural. Best wishes. Ref ^(chew)(do) 12:33, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Refsworldlee: As French speaking, I wrote it with the French spelling, i.e., without the "p". Thanks again for correcting this mistake. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 13:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Ref ^(chew)(do) 15:43, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

April flowers

April

... with thanks from QAI

Thank you for more work around Bruckner! - If you click on April, you'll see new travel pics, including flowers, small but millions, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:05, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, thanks for the flowers. It is one on first first flowering plants in humid forests. I have added the category Oxalis acetosella in Germany.

About Bruckner: The complete Alte Gesamtausgabe (Haas edition) is now available on IMSLP, as well as the volumes of the Neue Gesamtausgabe (Nowak edition), which were edited before 1993. About the vocal works, the scores of the Masses, Requiem, Te Deum, Psalm 150 and the smaller religious works (early masses & motets) are now available.

I have updated a few Wikipedia pages, mainly that on the Second Symphony, following fruitful discussions with Will Carragan. Last month, there was the premiere of the complete 1876 version of the Third Symphony (as reconstructed by Will). In this version, most of the Wagner quotes are removed, but the remaining of the symphony is preserved. As you know, in the next version, there are already severe cuts, which deface the work, mainly the adagio, but also the finale. The 1876 version is thus perhaps the best version of the symphony. I have updated the concerned Wikipedia page accordingly.

Lat year there were premieres of the orchestration of Beethoven's Sonate pathétique, and of 13 piano pieces from the Kitzler Studienbuch. I just added the YouTube links of premieres of two scherzos for string quartet (F major & G minor) from the Kitzler Studienbuch. Best greetings, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:23, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Thought of you when we sang Bruckner's Christus factus est yesterday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:27, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, Christus factus est, WAB 11, is one of the most beautiful Bruckner's motets, but ... IMO the very seldom performed WAB 10 is even more beautiful, as Nowak wrote: "One has to value this composition as one of the most expressive and monumental works of Bruckner's sacred music". Stenov performed it last Sunday, during the Palm Sunday celebration: Musik zum Palmsonntag/Palm Sunday (Karwoche/Holy Week) 14. 4. 2019 Karmelitenkirche Linz. Best regards, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:08, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Will tell conductors. We sang the one from WAB 9 before. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Brahms Motets

Brahms motets, - can you please correct IMSLP? [1], at the bottom, Warum...? - There should be no tempo marking in the head line, the first movement shoud be "Langsam und ausdrucksvoll" (missing a space), and the second movements should be "Wenig bewegter" (not "Weniger ..."). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:02, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

In this score, the title is sometimes right (dem Mühseligen), sometimes wrong (den Mühseligen). Can you fix that, please. (And listen? Will sing later this month.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:53, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, I was last week on holiday in France and did not catch your first request. Hopefully it is now fixed. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Similar request: if you look at this and I Will Mention the Loving-kindnesses, you'll see a pubication date with a question mark, whiöe sources seem to be sure about 1975. Can you please change there? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, I have fixed it. Best regards, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:55, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

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Happy Easter

or: the resurrection of loving-kindness --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:09, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Dear Gerda Arendt, thanks for this beautiful blossom!. I wish a happy Easter to you too, in spite of the lockdown. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 16:34, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! Perhaps you have time to look at musical articles, or even listen to some music. The best - I think - is under St John Passion, and if you don't have time for the whole thing the excerpt, or the "making", will give an impression. Possibly the only Bach Passion this Good Friday, at the composer's grave. He was buried in 1750, and his music is soooo alive! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:00, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

... and today Credo, or this is the day from Psalm 118. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:18, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

July wildflowers

July

Thank you for all you do! - Can you tell us more precisely what kind of thistles these are? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Dear Gerda Arendt, a beautiful picture! These plants are Echinops sphaerocephalus - Auf deutsch Drüsige Kugeldistel. Beste Grüße von Belgien, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 18:27, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

That's lovely, thank you! Will update accordingly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:31, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

... and still flowering around Bruckner! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

I just made a round of the Bruckner symphonies, because the keys are not really part of their titles - and could be linked when not. I stumbled about "To the beloved God" for "Dem lieben Gott", and confess that to this day, I believed it's rather the loving God. ?? I also heard "dear God". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:42, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt: I was not the original writer of this Wikipedia page and thus also not of the wording "To the beloved God". If, as you suggest, you think that there should be a better translation of "Dem lieben Gott", do not hesitate to change it. Best regards, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 11:35, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

... when I have extra time, next year perhaps ... - I'm not even getting to Beethoven. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Next year is now, best wishes, and a request: I uploaded images for Stonecrop Gardens, and am sure that you could write bestter descriptions of the plants and animal ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:26, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Dear Gerda,
On the front of the first photo (Stonecrop Gardens) there is a Sedum species ("stonecrop"...), that I cannot identify, with two weeds: a caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris) and crow-dippers (Pinellia ternata).
The second picture (Flowerbeds) is a flowerbed with fall phloxes (Phlox paniculata) and two kinds of American asters (Symphyotrichum species).
My best wishes too for a Covid19-free 2021. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 11:24, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Will apply when I have time. Feel free to look at the whole bunch, under commonscat. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:58, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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2021

Have a good new year! - and flowers on my talk ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:30, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

I went to Innisfree Garden some great day in October 1996, remembered. More on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

June flowers

my thanks in pics and music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Dear Gerda: Very nice pictures of wild flowers! I have allowed myself to better classify them, i.e., not as "Wild flowers", but under their botanic names. Is it OK for you? Best regards, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 10:52, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

That's just great. I didn't even think of that! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:31, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

added: missing SlimVirgin, and RMF festival opening --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:35, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

July corner

June continued ... last year's flowers match the image on the user page nicely, see? - DYK that her last reply to me was in a thread Green for hope? - The DYK set in honour of Yoninah appeared yesterday, including Psalm 85, with the kiss of justice and peace - we wrote that together.

Fourth of July: Brian's birthday, remembered in gratitude for his unfailing inspiration and support - remember the Chapel - the missed - the music? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:00, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

More music: 2 songs, the morning song - about rising from being down, in more than one sense - is a GA, - there should be more given my initials, but I also want to care for articles of those who recently died (now Esther Béjarano), and psalms in memory of Yoninah, - more missing than there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:54, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, thank you for your message and the links to the songs. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 19:16, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

more music, if you like, cello sonatas and a new song about a feast - a dear family member remembered today when she would have been 122 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:29, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Eight years!

You are welcome to fix the descriptions and categories of my pics! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:44, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Today: sharing symphonic music - happy listening, click on December songs, Bruckner!!! - I asked the arb cands if they'd listen, which is an art. - Listen to what de:Jerome Kohl wrote about Zeitmaße, premiered by Pierre Boulez. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:56, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

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February songs

February songs

frozen

Valentine's Day edition, with spring flowers and plenty of music - could you please check for flower names and categories? -- (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda Arendt, I have added the categories of the flowers of the Colorful Spring Bouquet. Best regards, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 10:00, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much, very sweet, and that wasn't even "mine" but given ;) - There are many more flowers if you scroll up from the Munich Botanical Garden (or just check my contribs on the commons), one just saying "Orange flowers" in a pic title, - could you perhaps also help with those. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:29, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

stand and sing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:23, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I took the pic in 2009, and it was on the German MP yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:47, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

March now

March songs

Listening to the charity concert mentioned here. I created the articles of the composer and the soprano. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Now, you can also listen on YouTube, and more music, the piece by Anna Korsun begins after about one hour, and the voices call "Freiheit!" (freedom, instead of "Freude", joy). Music every day, pictured in songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

The Prayer is on the Main page, finally + new flowers --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, the pink flowers are Corydalis solida (Gefingerter Lerchensporne in German). I have added the corresponding category. Best greetings, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 16:08, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

more of that flower: Sunday flowers and sounds, don't miss the extraordinary marriage of the beginnings of the theme of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, and Prayer for Ukraine - here! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:02, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

... and today with a question: what's the name of the tree pictured on 28 March, both detail and larger (not the same plant but I think species)? - feel free to correct file categories and names, - and I have exquisite music today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:44, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, this flowering tree is a Prunus sect. Prunus, but I cannot identify which species it is. Have fine evening! Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 17:46, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much, dear Reginald, and what would you need. I'd go for Prunus cerasifera, but Central Europe is not mentioned in the lead. "first to flower" matches exactly. They grow a lot where I live, not cultivated. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:50, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda. The cultivar 'Nigra' is often planted in the Belgian gardens for its early blooming with pink flowers and its purple foliage afterwards. Greetings, Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 10:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

April now

April songs

For your enjoyment and possibly extended precision --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda,

These flowers are not Ipheion, but 'Große Sternhyazinthen', Scilla forbesii (Syn. Chionodoxa forbesii). I have renamed the file and changed the category accordingly.

Greetings, Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:47, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Always learning, and you are so patient ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:50, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

memories: two people on DYK, both connected to Oper Frankfurt, and don't miss yesterday's video of Pink Floyd given to me! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:49, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

music for Easter --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

dance and singing, peace doves and icecream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

May music

May songs

I like my talk today (actually mostly from 29 May - I took the title pic), enjoy the music, two related videos worth watching! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

July thanks

July songs

Thank you for your consistent help with Bruckner! I have pics from vacation days to offer. - Feel free to check for better names and categories, - I often use German plant names when I'm unsure which common English name would be better known. And I'm completely helpless for alpine flowers. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:12, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

September music

September songs

Thank you for your consistent Bruckner improvement. I was envied for having listened to his Seventh, DYK? The rose pic was taken on 11 Sep 2021, and this year was full of music that day, Tag des offenen Denkmals, not only singing in church and rehearsals for Verdi's Requiem, but two concerts at special places pictured, one a synagogue (pictured on its wall). Today three DYK: a piece we'll perform on Sunday, a violinist we heard in June playing the Berg Concerto (my brother played in the orchestra), and a Youth Orchestra shaped by a conductor who recently died. Almost too much of a good thing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:56, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

I just looked at "Pieces with text from Psalm 41", and believe that at least three of the pieces mean Psalm 42, possibly more, all those referring to cervus or similar animals. Could you fix that? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:38, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Today, we sang old music for two choirs at church, pictured, scroll to the image of the organ of the month of the Diocese of Limburg (my perspective), and if you have time, watch the video about it --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:17, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

... and today I wrote an article about music premiered today, Like as the hart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:10, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

travel and strings sound --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, in the meantime I have tried to unravel a little more the knot of the multiple versions and variants of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:56, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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December music

December songs

happy new year

Thank you for continued friendship and support in 2022! Looking ahead at User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2023 - and you are first! - can you please find out the tree of the October image, and fix the image accordingly? Best wishes for the season, dreaming of peace. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, which tree do you mean? Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 13:36, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

look for foliage unless you calculate where 10 sits in a 3 times 4 field - leaves, seen against the water of the Rhine --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:39, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, I guess it is Fraxinus excelsior (Gemeine Esche), but I am not absolutely sure. It could also be a Juglans nigra (Schwarznuss).
NB: The "Arnika" is not an Arnica montana, but a Doronicum species. I guess Doronicum grandiflorum.
Best greetings, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 13:49, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much. - Ashamed that I told friends the wrong thing about the "Arnika", o dear. For the tree, I'll take Esche for now, and will have to return and check. Problem is that during high water, that's on an island in the Rhine, just after the fry summer I could easily go there ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:29, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, I have renamed the "Arnika" as "Doronicum grandiflorum near Sidelen Hut, Furkapass" and classified it accordingly.
I have classified the "foliage" (Leaves on Rhine, Erbach) in the category "Fraxinus excelsior (leaves)". Greetings, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 15:28, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. - Keep enjoying the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:17, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

February songs

February songs

my daily stories

fresh flowers for you! - My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:46, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, a nice and peaceful flowers! In my garden the winterlings (Eranthis hyemalis) are already faded. The snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis, Galanthus elwesii and Galanthus woronowii) are currently blooming. Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 10:28, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, two pictures of the lawn before our home: full of naturalised crocusses.

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  Naturalised crocusses
• 
  Naturalised crocusses

Enjoy! Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 11:20, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

enjoying! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:47, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! - and if you follow the songs link: I found also those crocusses --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Dear Gerda you apparently forgot to add the link to the song... Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 13:36, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

sorry for having been unclear: I mean songs above the pic (while stories are below the pic), - I update the songs (now 26), but the stories come with an index. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

May music

May songs

my story today

My story today is that 300 years ago, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. - In my recent pics, I made some spelling mistakes in the titles, - could you perhaps check for nonsense there, such as fileids instead of fields, please? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:11, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

July music

July songs

my story today

Thank you for fixing the name of these flowers! - While today's DYK highlights Santiago on his day, I did my modest share with my story today, describing what I just experienced, pictured. I began the article of the woman in green. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:54, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Today Jahrhundertring, and I'm listening to Götterdämmerung from the Bayreuth Festival (pictured), - the image (of a woman who can't believe what she has to see) features also on the article talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:41, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:31, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

September songs

my story today

Thank you for constant improving of the Bruckner articles! You would have loved this concert, - little glimpse in a yt. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:38, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Dear Gerda,

« Colchiques dans les prés, c'est la fin de l'été » („Herbstzeitlosen auf den Wiesen, es ist das Ende des Sommers“)... The autumn crocusses (Colchicum autumnale) are now also in bloom in my garden. Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 07:44, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Dear Gerda,

« Colchiques dans les prés, c'est la fin de l'été ». Herewith a picture I have taken today:

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  Colchicum autumnale
  in my lawn

--Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

A week later...

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  Colchicum autumnale
  a week later
• 
  Colchicum autumnale
  a week later

--Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:34, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Today's story is about a great pianist with an unusual career, taking off when he was 50. It's the wedding anniversary of Clara and Robert Schumann, but I was too late with our gift. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for more flowers! - Today I remember Raymond Arritt, who still helps me, five years after he died, per what he said in my darkest time on Wikipedia (placed in my edit-notice as a reminder), and by teh rulez. - Latest pics from a weekend in Berlin (one more day to come). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:53, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

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December greetings

December: story · music · places

Thank you for your Bruckner updates! I wish you merry festive days and a peaceful New Year. Could you please check my new calendar pics for inaccuracies? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Beste Gerda,

Ich wünsche dir ein heiliges Weihnachtsfest und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2024. Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 16:31, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

2024

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy New Year

2024

Like 2019, see above ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Yesterday was a friend's birthday, with related music. I'm on vacation - see places. When you see plants pictured that you know better please feel free to correct image descriptions and even names. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:38, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

These hidden croci were captured last year, on a cemetery after a funeral. They stand for hope for me, and remind me of yours from last year. Best wishes, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Very nice picture! I have added the category Crocus tommasinianus in snow. Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Would you know the category for these flowers? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, it is a plant of the large South-African family Proteaceae, but which one? Compare with the plant on this picture in the category unidentified Proteaceae. I guess a Leucospermum species. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 15:11, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

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thank you! - now the flowers in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

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) 22:44, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded vacation pics (from back home), at least the first day, - and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:57, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

more pics followed - I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Two days later in time, a different music, - Happy Easter! - I uploaded pics from the Monte Tropical Garden, and am sure that you can identify some plants that I had to call "red flower after rain" ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

last offer in May: photos of the river Rhine, and the adjacent Eltville rose garden, - high water and interesting weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:04, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

11 years precious! - How are you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, Bruckner, whose 200th birthday is celebrated this year, is currently my main activity on Wikipedia. Numerous recordings of his works, some of which had previously not been performed or recorded – notably those from the Kitzler-Studienbuch – appear almost every week or month... I am also active in two private Facebook groups about the composer and his works. I can introduce you to it if you are interested. Because of the bad weather conditions, botany is currently less present in my activities. Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 06:41, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - No facebook for me ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Sunday story about another of Bach's chorale cantatas, listen, as I listened to two impressive very different choral concerts, - music by 16 composers. In the latest cloudy pictures: a hidden deer, a cat and a blaze of a sunset. - Looking forward to Bruckner Nine on 30 Sep. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

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Today's story has 3 composers, I couldn't decide for the one on the Main page or the one who didn't make it on his bicentenary, so took both, and the pic has a third. Listen if you have a bit of time. The music, played by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, impressed me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:32, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

To celebrate the day, I listened to Bruckner's Eighth on radio, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, I presume that, as on his CDs, [Search Discography Database - Anton Bruckner (abruckner.com)] Davies performed the first (1887) version of the Symphony - my favourite version of the Eighth. Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:21, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I wish I knew, I missed the announcement, and it wasn't said in the end. - Recommended reading today: Frye Fire, by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Today is Schoenberg's 150th birthday! On display, portrayed by Egon Schiele, with music from Moses und Aron, and with two DYK hooks, one from 2010 and another from 2014; the latter, about his 40th birthday, appeared on his 140th birthday, which made me happy then and now again. - See places for a stunning sunrise, on the day Bruckner's 200th birthday was celebrated (just a few days late). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:11, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Bruckner in September - and October

You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions (Bruckner's Ninth) and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. They sang it instead of a fourth movement. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:10, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Today brought a timely promotion of Helmut Bauer to the Main page on the day when pieces from Mozart's Requiem were performed for him, also Bruckner's Ave Maria, WAB 7! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:25, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

and November

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For a surprise, a Bach cantata is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen to the 3 whole-tone steps and the dialogues of Fear and Hope. - An open letter open to be signed (more info on the talk), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. - In the most recent pics, there's are two from the Madrid Botanical Gardens, where I couldn't identify the plants, - your help is welcome, there and always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:27, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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