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Visual Art

• Lion Attacking a Dromedary (possible FA; missing c. 2023 scholarship and retirement)
• Triple Self-Portrait (possible GA; check the failed DYK for issues)
• User:Guerillero/Sandbox 4 → Spirit of 1976 (possible FA due to the diplomacy bit)
• User:Guerillero/Sandbox 5 → Saturday Evening Post Covers by Norman Rockwell (possible FL; could be too big)
• Golden Rule (painting)
• The Runaway (painting)
• Four Continents (French) (possible GA; crib sources from Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House)
• Vicco von Voss

Other

• User:Guerillero/Sandbox 2 → Monks and Their Decline (possible GT with Saint Vincent Beer and George Zurcher)
• User:Guerillero/GeorgeZurcher → George Zurcher (possible GT with Saint Vincent Beer and Monks and Their Decline)
• User:Guerillero/Sandbox 3 → Theodore Kurze
• Sing Folk Songs To Bug The Liberals

story · music · places

in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this, and of Vami - thank you for shepherding his FAC! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:33, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... and the premiere of Nabucco - I always wanted to go to that theatre where Idomeneo premiered, and they played Mozart! - What do you think of the Vivaldi discussion? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:35, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vacation pics uploaded, at least the first day, - and Aribert Reimann remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Next day, around Porto da Cruz, on Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:55, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Looking forward to that (above, Boundary Fire (2017) scheduled for TFA), in memory. - 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 compromise in the composer's infobox? - How do you like the statue (look up places)? - I was undecided so show three versions ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:59, 6 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) 15:03, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

plum tree blossom for Kalevi Kiviniemi in the snow - see my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about a piece composed for the Second Sunday after Easter 300 years ago, and I just returned from a (long) opera about the same age, with soprano Pretty Yende --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

relief: the last of six RD articles in one week is now on the Main page - yesterday a great recital with many anti-war songs by Jewish composers whose music was banned by the Nazis. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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