User:Gerda Arendt/Story list

index of my stories

This list is the index of my daily stories, of something related to the day, mostly from the Main page of the day or former times. I change when I wake up. I archived 2023, with some example stories collected here.

Story on 9 November 2024:

Russian Jewish painter
Marc Chagall
created the stained-glass windows
of the church of St. Stephan in Mainz
as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation.

look and listen

5 December 2006

Vertraut den neuen Wegen

(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)

Index

My stories began in 2023, one item related to the day, often with a bit more information than an actual DYK, explaining the date relation and providing context. The stories of 2023 are archived. In 2024, some of them will be replaced. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:28, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

The following table shows all stories, organised by day, then the year from youngest to oldest. The first column is the date, the second has the most important article(s) of the day, the third shows other linked articles, the fourth has the topic (art, Bach = related to music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach cc = his chorale cantatas (topic of 2024), bio = biography, Boni = St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, book, bridge, choir = related to choral music, choral = music sung by me, church, composer, concert (that day), conductor, dance, feminism, friend, GW = Graham Waterhouse, hymn, jazz, novel, opera, Oper = specific opera house (B = Berlin, D = Dortmund, F = Frankfurt, H = Hannover, K = Köln, M = München, W = Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden), organist, piano = piano music, premiere, Reger = related to Max Reger, RMF = Rheingau Musik Festival, Requiem, Saint, sing = something I sang (that day), singer, song = a song given to me, songs, Karlheinz Stockhausen, symphony, theatre, UKR = Ukraine, violin).

The fifth column shows the connection to the date, with a year (TFA = today's featured article, DYK = Did you know, my DYK = a fact that I preferred to the official one, OTD = On this day, RD = person appeared among the Recent deaths that day (and sometimes also the following days), TDP ? today's featured picture, b. + year = person was born that day that year, birthday = a friends birthday, d. + year = person died that day that year, hear = hear a piece that day, opened (that day), premiere (that day), sing = sing a piece that day. Sometimes it's just related to a birthday or wedding anniversary celebrated.

Items pictured are marked by a following "p". Songs I sang is marked by a following "s" also performers and music I saw, music sung in choir by "c", also places or people of "my" concerts, music and performers I heard by "h", people I have met by m, I have known by "k", friends by f, all on the first occurrence. These markings are new, and will be updated over the year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 3 January 2024 (UTC) - updated --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC)