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May music

Recommended reading today: Christfried Schmidt, a story about patience. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:55, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

check my talk today for two pics of Margot Friedländer --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:43, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

musings on 15 May --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:26, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

birthday of Erik Satie - can we get his article to GA for his centenary of death? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:54, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

all Verdi today: tenor Luigi Alva and the premiere OTD of his Requiem, see my talk - sang it in 2010 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:41, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A first: two stories about two people who worked together and died the same day --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:19, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, born 100 years ago, described by Alan Blyth --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ascension Day today, time for a service at a small church nearby and meeting friends. 300 years ago Bach performed a cantata for the occasion, with a rich use of brass (horns and a trumpet!) and winds, and to the libretto of a woman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:56, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic, thanks Gerda! I didn't know this one so I have gone off and got Suziki vol. 35 and my Musica Rara excerpts book, and am looking forward to exploring it. ~~I've also left a little query for you on the Talk page.~~ (Now resolved, thanks.) Cheers DBaK (talk) 08:47, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thank you! - another reason: another small church and the village organ he played, and we can still listen to its sound --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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