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January 29

Henrik Otto Donner's music for Howl

According to our article Howl "Part one of "Howl" was broadcast in Finland on September 30, 1969, on Yleisradio's (Finland's national public-broadcasting company) "parallel programme" at 10:30 p.m. The poem was read by three actors with jazz music specially composed for this radio broadcast by Henrik Otto Donner". Is the music available anywhere? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 02:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yle has the introduction by Kurt Nuotio and Otto Donner but not performance. Musicians were Esko Rosnell, Ilkka Willman and Juhani Aaltonen[1], they were Esko Rosnell Trio at the 1969 Pori Jazz Festival. According to[2] the recording may have been made at the festival, and Yle not making the recording available due to "copyright reasons". fiveby(zero) 05:43, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This documentary of Love Records may have something. How about En Soisi Sen Päättyvän first performed at the 1969 festival to poetry by Pentti Saarikoski?[3] That's probably close enough for my ear of jazz and Finnish recitations of beatnik poets. Are you sure Anselm Hollo is the translator for "Howl" in Huuto ja muita runoja? ~~This Ginsberg letter leads me to believe it could have been Saarikoski.~~ fiveby(zero) 15:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like tho sometimes credited for Huuto ja muita runoja, Saarikoski translated something else from Howl and Other Poems and published in another work.[4] fiveby(zero) 16:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Goebbels' mother

As far as I could verify, she lived till 1953. But is there anything known about her life during the war, and her stance on Nazism – in particular, her son's prominent role within it?--Hildeoc (talk) 12:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Our article, like about one half of the sources, gives the mother's Christian names as "Katharina Maria"; the German Wikipedia has "Maria Katharina" (also Goebbels' youngest sister's Christian names), as does the other half of the sources – particularly those written in German. Reportedly, the mother was interviewed on 25 March 1948; the text is in the archives of the Hoover Institution.^[5] There are some inconclusive suggestions that the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich may hold a copy. Apparently, the mother was a simple woman (described as such by the Reichsminister himself) and religious (Roman Catholic). As such, it is hard to imagine that she agreed with her son's fiercely anti-Christian stance, but I see no hint that she ever publicly expressed disagreement. --Lambiam 16:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Historical French Provinces

Inside Wikipedia there are beautiful maps of historical French provinces in the same style, for example: fr:Normandie#/media/Fichier:Normandie_et_provinces.svg fr:Franche-Comté#/media/Fichier:Bourgogne-Franche-Comté_et_provinces.svg fr:Champagne_(province)#/media/Fichier:Carte_de_la_Champagne.svg fr:Languedoc#/media/Fichier:Carte_du_Languedoc.svg Is there a big map encompassing all of them united together covering the entirety of France? Thank you! --87.3.54.213 (talk) 13:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see one by the same user, but see Category:SVG maps of historical provinces of France. Alansplodge (talk) 14:47, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The simpler and more "canonical" way of linking the images is File:Normandie et provinces.svg etc. AnonMoos (talk) 22:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, but I couldn't make that work to show a WM Commons category. Alansplodge (talk) 08:49, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]