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January music
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300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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| Three years! |
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:14, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
... happy new year! - inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
Mozart music for today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:48, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: do you ever listen to popular music? I've been listening to Daniela Andrade off and on for the last several weeks. There's something about her singing that touches me. It's not complex, it's very simple, but she's got this authentic approach that I like, as if she's singing her very last song each and every time. Hard to explain. Viriditas (talk) 21:17, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- I listened now, to Tamale, yes the simplicity is touching, and going to the basics. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:44, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Oh, that's a highly produced song, she has several others where her raw vocals shine through and you get a glimpse of her wider range as a singer. But yes, "Tamale" is fun, and I especially like the video, as it speaks to certain period in my life when I used to buy tamales from street vendors who were always older women. Viriditas (talk) 22:53, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Older women - did you listen/watch Isabella in my story? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:20, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, absolutely fantastic image of Podleś in the infobox. And it even dates back to 2010! You got lucky with that one. The use of "older women" in my comment was a playful contrast with Andrade's video, which shows younger women making the tamales. In the US, there is generally a culture of grandmothers, or as they are known here, the abuela, who sell these tamales on the city streets. There's also the play on the term "like my grandmother used to make" when it comes to food. Viriditas (talk) 23:24, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- nice match to the Spanish island where I am - and what about the opera scene? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:34, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Amazing sound quality from 2014! Quite remarkable. I'm playing it here in my room and it sounds like I'm right there! I think the trick is the live mix, it's perfect. It sounds like I'm sitting in the orchestra. I love her coloratura contralto, and I hope this isn't a bad thing, but it's so low you can't tell it is a woman singing! Did she ever play male parts, as I understand that kind of thing was common at one point? Right now I'm getting really into ballet. I see that the opera-ballet has fallen out of fashion, with only four rarely performed. Viriditas (talk) 23:42, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Funny question: the story mentions 2 women and 2 men, and in the first version (2024), there was one more woman and one more man. Had she been up for DYK none of that would have been "interesting" but what she did at age four ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:47, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Well, there is definitely a problem with hook style, but we've discussed this so many times, there's nothing more to say. I recently wrote two hooks that I thought were perfect, only to have the reviewer tell me they were too long and to rewrite a hook that others now think is not interesting because it is just sitting there, abandoned to the elements. Anyway, enjoy Spain and get off the internet! Viriditas (talk) 23:51, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Funny question: the story mentions 2 women and 2 men, and in the first version (2024), there was one more woman and one more man. Had she been up for DYK none of that would have been "interesting" but what she did at age four ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:47, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Amazing sound quality from 2014! Quite remarkable. I'm playing it here in my room and it sounds like I'm right there! I think the trick is the live mix, it's perfect. It sounds like I'm sitting in the orchestra. I love her coloratura contralto, and I hope this isn't a bad thing, but it's so low you can't tell it is a woman singing! Did she ever play male parts, as I understand that kind of thing was common at one point? Right now I'm getting really into ballet. I see that the opera-ballet has fallen out of fashion, with only four rarely performed. Viriditas (talk) 23:42, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- nice match to the Spanish island where I am - and what about the opera scene? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:34, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, absolutely fantastic image of Podleś in the infobox. And it even dates back to 2010! You got lucky with that one. The use of "older women" in my comment was a playful contrast with Andrade's video, which shows younger women making the tamales. In the US, there is generally a culture of grandmothers, or as they are known here, the abuela, who sell these tamales on the city streets. There's also the play on the term "like my grandmother used to make" when it comes to food. Viriditas (talk) 23:24, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Older women - did you listen/watch Isabella in my story? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:20, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Oh, that's a highly produced song, she has several others where her raw vocals shine through and you get a glimpse of her wider range as a singer. But yes, "Tamale" is fun, and I especially like the video, as it speaks to certain period in my life when I used to buy tamales from street vendors who were always older women. Viriditas (talk) 22:53, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- I listened now, to Tamale, yes the simplicity is touching, and going to the basics. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:44, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
Casablanca-related personal anecdote
[edit]Some years back, I signed up for the Bonhams auction of Casablanca memorabilia. There were only two items even remotely within my financial reach: gambling chips and Sakall's waiter's jacket. Who wants generic chips? (Turns out a lot of people apparently; the pre-auction estimate was a couple of hundred dollars, but I think they went for a couple of thousand.) Anyway, it seems there were two of us vying for the jacket (it was online and in-person bidding, maybe phone bidding as well, so I'm not absolutely certain). My last bid was $3200 US, as I recall. That was the pre-auction high-end estimate, and didn't include the buyer's premium, shipping, etc. I bailed at that point, and the next bid of $3300 ($100 increments) took it. I've regretted my decision ever since. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Clarityfiend: I would have gone for the waiter's jacket! I used to do thrift store hauls back in the 1980s. The things you used to be able to find were amazing, and so cheap. One of my fave finds of all time was a Playboy-style smoking jacket that looked straight out of Austin Powers. It was really beautiful. I gifted it to a friend who admired it some time later, which is generally how I handle things I like. I tend to pass things on rather than to possess anything of value. Over time, I've given away almost everything I've ever owned. Viriditas (talk) 00:19, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
- Oh, behave! --Tryptofish (talk) 01:14, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
DYK for The Other America (speech)
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On 19 January 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Other America (speech), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "The Other America" is thought to have been influenced by a post-Keynesian economist and a democratic socialist? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Other America (speech). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Other America (speech)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.