... 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.
On the bicentenary of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, I remember our recent uplifting choral concert in pictures, on my user page and in my concerts (leading to the two at the church's article). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Today is the Feast of the Ascension for which Bach composed his oratorio, - perhaps watch a bit how the closing movement was performed in Bach's church = pure trumpet joy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
oh nice! Thank you so much. DBaK (talk) 18:43, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Gosh, and the Sächsischen Barockorchester is rather useful too! I slightly wish I were playing, but it is lovely to watch and listen from out here! DBaK (talk) 18:47, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Magdalena Hinterdobler is on the Main page today, together with an opera that reviewers deemed not interesting and too obscure for our general readers. The soprano thought differently, - listen and see. - Also on the Main page: a TFA by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:14, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I liked seeing Erschallet, ihr Lieder on the Main page today, 310 years after the first performance! Trumpets!! We sang it in 2000. Today's program was easier but also spirited. I found a nice video of "I will sing with the spirit", with nature photography, - enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much, Gerda! Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:54, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:25, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I am off to do a lovely concert at the weekend, led by you-know-who's sister. Lots of French music and lots of lovely song in which the trumpet stays stumm, which works fine for me as it's just such a nice place to be! This tacet? – I can take it! (Old joke but yeah.) Cheers DBaK (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
you-know-who will play for the RMF, first time, children's concert - for listening pleasure, look up the baritone's article and look for youtube and Wohnzimmer (= living room): during the pandemic, he played in his parent's living room where he was caught, accompanying himself on the grand piano, until a duet in which his mother took the piano part while he not only sang the baritone role but also played the lines of the soprano (to be seduced) on the clarinet in between; he then accompanied his cellist sister, and finally sang a song with his dad who must have been c. 85, - enjoy! (talking "musical family") --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:13, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Today's story is my little contribution to Trinity Sunday, with a church named after the Trinity (which I'd have liked to see pictured, and what would be a good description of that kind of facade? "splendid" was reverted as not neutral) and a cantata Bach conducted 300 years ago for the occasion (having composed it 9 years earlier). No trumpets. I confess that I wrote the FA without having ever listened but did today and found it quite intimate and lovely. - Today an organist who regularly steps in for our cantor presented a great version of the Widor Toccata for the postlude after the service, so sparkling and lively in the upper register that often gets drowned by the bass cantus. Which reminded me of you-know-who practicing the piece on the same instrument for a sister's wedding. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:52, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
last offer in May: photos of the river Rhine, and the adjacent Eltville rose garden, - high water and interesting weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Enjoy today's story, related to my topic of the year: 300 years Bach's chorale cantatas, and the first was written for today. The music opens with a French overture for a chorale fantasy. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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