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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Pierre Boulez you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tim riley -- Tim riley (talk) 12:20, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
In Pierre Boulez, you changed Le Sacre to The Rite of Spring, "for consistency". I am rather sure that - for a performance in France - that's wrong. When I write about an opera singer, I use different opera titles when she sang in the same opera once in German, once in Italian, both piped to the same English article. - Good luck with the GA nom. Meeting Boulez briefly was among the moments in life to be remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
A plague on you and Boulez! Having been obliged to consult the WP article on Leibowitz I find it is seriously inaccurate and needs a good bit of work, which I am busy gathering material for, though I really ought to be working on a non-WP project—blast you, Pierre and René! But best wishes, Tim riley talk 17:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
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The article Pierre Boulez you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Pierre Boulez for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tim riley -- Tim riley (talk) 17:01, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
I meant to say that in addition to any comments you wish to add on the peer review page, I hope you won't think politesse prevents you from wading in and changing, adding and deleting to the article itself. I'm only overhauling it because I think it needs it, and not because I fancy myself as any kind of expert on Debussy. (Fauré and Ravel, perhaps (ish), but not Debussy.) I suspect − indeed, I'm certain − you know more about Debussy than I do, so please edit ad lib. Tim riley talk 18:35, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
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Good evening! I'm looking for help if you have time and inclination. Two editors whom I greatly respect have said that the existing simple list of later composers influenced by Debussy isn't an adequate way of addressing the matter, and that we need instead to give a few major examples and details. I agree, but I am, to be frank, struggling to find a source for a reasonably concise overview of his influence. Any help, whether in writing or just pointing me to sources, will attract my deep gratitude. – Tim riley talk 18:34, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
I've said on the PR page how grateful I am for your input, and I want to say it again here. I am enormously indebted to you, and send you my warmest thanks. Tim riley talk 13:33, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
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I understand "too many pictures", but that is an unusual place, with the music in the centre and only a few rows for the audience around it (they switch position of the performers after intermission, DYK?) which is much easier to be seen than described. It's also the Palestine-Israel idea behind it, and the architecture, that - I think - deserve a bit extra attention. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Encouraged by the superb input at and prompted by the peer review, I propose to take Debussy to FAC shortly. I am going to ask Smerus to join me as co-nominator if he is inclined, and I am hereby asking you the same thing. You won't be eligible to comment at the FAC having contributed significantly to the article (bless you!) and serving as co-pilot will be useful rehearsal for taking M. Boulez to FAC in due course, which I shall make you do, at gunpoint if necessary. FAC is a leisurely, not to say protracted process, so can be fitted in around your other commitments. Pray ponder. Tim riley talk 13:36, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
I have gone carefully through your revised text and I think you have done splendidly in trimming without leaving visible holes. It all coheres well. 11,400 words, unfortunately, would now be the longest FA composer article, as Tchaikovsky's has been radically pruned from its longest version of 12,600 to 8,000 now. Certain of our colleagues will gripe at 11,400, though others don't object to such length. Anyway, just 800 words longer than Britten? And so many years more to record. I think you can defend this length. Tim riley talk 16:25, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
On 22 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pierre Boulez, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a decade after suggesting that opera houses should all be "blown up", the French composer Pierre Boulez (pictured) conducted the centenary production of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pierre Boulez. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you! For vanity and the album ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:28, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
I see Debussy has been promoted to FA. My thanks and congratulations: having two such excellent co-nominators has made the process a lot easier than usual, and I'm hugely grateful. Very best wishes, Tim riley talk 16:38, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
This is to let you know that I've scheduled Claude Debussy to appear on the main page as today's featured article on 22 August 2018. If you need to make tweaks to the blurb, it is at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 22, 2018. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:45, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Greetings! If you have time and disposition you may like to look in at the peer review of Hector Berlioz. (Quite understand if you are too busy, naturally.) Tim riley talk 09:34, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
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If, perchance, you are around on 7th January there will be a small gathering of disreputable Wikipedians at my flat in Islington. Pray email me if you are minded to join us. And whether or no, Happy Christmas and Merry New Year, dear Dmass! Tim riley talk 19:42, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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I know G&S isn't your thing, and so I don't imagine Offenbach is either. But Leibowitz conducted the first complete recording of Orphée aux enfers and I have that opera up at FAC if you care to look in. I also know you are often busy, and I'll entirely understand if you can't look in. Best, Tim riley talk 09:17, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
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Dmass, I don't think we've have the pleasure, but I've been familiar with your admirable work on Boulez for sometime now. I wanted to ask, do you have any plans to bring other composers to GA/FA in the future? There are quite a few major late 20th century and 21st century composers who've not gotten the attention they deserve, and I know your touch would be beneficial. No pressure at all!—I'm just curious. Best – Aza24 (talk) 17:58, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
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I notice there has been more than minor editing on your part recently. Would it be wishful thinking on my part to hope that PB might be entering the lists, where he jolly well ought to be, at FAC? No pressure of course (he said mendaciously). Meanwhile, Happy New Year in any case. Tim riley talk 19:57, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks for such a quick, helpful and effective response to my concerns at Pierre Boulez! That was a super pleasant interaction, and I'm really impressed by your work and attention to detail. Keep it up, and amazing work on an important article!! Eddie891 Talk Work 22:56, 5 March 2023 (UTC) |
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My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:13, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
You removed an ((ill)) link citing a project discussion, - which discussion of which project please? - For composers by name, an ill link provides notability, and to my understanding, it establishes the same in other articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Christmas music pictured --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:34, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
I try to finish uploading images of 2023 before it ends, and reached 17 December. Happy to see Rebekka Habermas on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:31, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Can you kindly tell me where in Boulez's catalogue Le Point errant is to be found? And are we, mayhap, getting any nearer to seeing the article up for FAC? Not that I'm nagging or anything. Thine, Tim riley talk 19:17, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Dmass, Congratulations on getting Boulez through - much deserved, given the standard of the prose. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 17:33, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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