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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.

The Signpost: 2 March 2024[edit]

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March music[edit]

story · music · places

in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this, and of Vami, mentioned above --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:05, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for this, Gerda. DBaK (talk) 00:35, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... and the premiere of Nabucco - I always wanted to go to that theatre where Idomeneo premiered, and they played Mozart! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 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) 22:18, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes no trumpet, but wonderful music nevertheless! Thank you DBaK (talk) 13:05, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Vacation pics uploaded, at least the first day, - and Aribert Reimann remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:51, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Next day, around Porto da Cruz, on Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:47, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Bliss! DBaK (talk) 20:20, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I feel understood! - Two days later in time, a different music, - Happy Easter! - You would have liked yester-night's Easter Vigil, with 4 (!) concertos for two trumpets in organ version (between readings, for offertory, for communion and for postlude). The choir was busy on Good Friday, and has to learn all the Bach for 5 May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
trumpets! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fabulous! DBaK (talk) 21:30, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April music[edit]

story · music · places

I like to see Appalachian Spring on the Main page today (not by me, 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) 16:52, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The statue is great! Personally I love the middle image best but I can see good points in them all. DBaK (talk) 21:33, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just chiming in...I too think the middle one is good, but my only complaint is that it shows a bit too much human development in the background, although I doubt anyone can tell but me. Viriditas (talk) 21:28, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, interesting point, thank you. I shall have to look again. DBaK (talk) 21:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The statue is of Hildegard of Bingen, and as it happens, her Physica is on the Main page today, and Marian Anderson as my top story (by NBC, 1939), and below (on my talk) three people with raised arms, - and the place is the cherry blossom in Frauenstein --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

By a crazy coincidence we were at the Alnwick Garden yesterday in order to see their massive cherry orchard in blossom. It's been there for 16 years or something but we have never managed the timing before. Absolute bliss. DBaK (talk) 21:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
love the coincidence! - now plum tree blossom for Kalevi Kiviniemi in the snow - see my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My story today is about a piece composed for the Second Sunday after Easter 300 years ago (listen!), and I just returned from a (long) opera about the same age, with soprano Pretty Yende --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Your blossom pics are fantastic! I must show you some of our Alnwick ones. It gave me quite a moment. Cheers DBaK (talk) 09:19, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, looking forward! - Now images of a flock of sheep that I met by chance on the 300th birthday of cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:36, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh how lovely, thank you ... the Flammkuchen looks wonderful! Also the sheep, safely grazing as one gathers they should. I shall now have to go and listen to the cantata, of course, despite its woeful lack of trumpets. Tsk. Presumably Bach thought they would frighten the sheep, or possibly the accountant.
Busy yesterday with Mozart K. 466, Delibes messing around pretending to be in the C16, and, fantastic revelation, Emilie Mayer's Symphony No. 1 ... lovely music, a touch too early (or late) for great trumpet parts but hey ... DBaK (talk) 21:31, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yesterday's cantata had a trumpet ;) - Well, Bach didn't use trumpets unless for the high holidays or other special impact. We rehearse the oratorio with orchestra fully only on concert Sunday, not to have to pay the trumpets for two days. Did you get a chance to play that? - I am happy that Kathleen Ferrier made it to the Main page again on her birthday, - that was my idea four years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:20, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Lovely about Ferrier! No, I have never played BWV 12. It's a very interesting one ... weird key, weird notes ... maybe a Zugtrompete oder so was because you sure as redacted can't play it on a bogstandard natural trumpet! I must look up my learned sources ... or possibly pour a glass of something nice, which would also help. Cheers! DBaK (talk) 20:04, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I learned a lot, also that I have to be more precise. When I said "that" I meant the oratorio ;) - Just one less in BWV. I can't speak too much about an upcoming concert or someone will say canvassing or advertising. As you may have seen on my talk I received a logged warning in a contentious area for having said I rub my eyes, please watch. That's canvassing. Rubbing eyes is not neutral. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I plead the 5th amendment! But thank you for the message. :) Cheers DBaK (talk) 17:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You plead what? - 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) 21:34, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Plead the Fifth is a protection against self-incrimination. It's me not wanting to comment in order to not get into trouble, albeit in a jokey way.
Wall done on Davies. What sad news ... he was excellent.
Mozart Requiem rehearsal tonight ... more on Friday, gig on Saturday. It is not exactly a challenging trumpet part but it is very, very satisfying to play. DBaK (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You may remember that the Requiem was also our last concert. Conductor's birthday is the same as Mozart's but he didn't usually like Mozart music (just the Ave verum and the Mass in C minor). It changed over dealing with the score. - I had no idea of that Grainger piece, - I just wanted to know what the image in my story shows ;) - Perhaps I should have made the story about that. However, today is the birthday of a friend with whom I went to Der Ring in Minden, so it had to be the Ring ;) - Her future husband and his colleague played the first notes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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