User talk:Graham87

Hi Graham. Could use your help here:

• User:Timeshifter/Sandbox335

There are 3 sections there with variations of the same thing.

Could you tell me how readable each section is with your screen reader? They are being used in a Wikipedia article, and as an example in one of the table help pages. --Timeshifter (talk) 20:45, 2 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) @Timeshifter: As a sighted user, I can straightaway spot two issues. Version 1 uses data cells where header cells ought to be used. Version 2 has unnecessary boldface in the header cells, which in some browsers (such as Firefox but not Safari) shows as double bold. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:10, 2 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Redrose64. I had forgotten to remove the boldface. --Timeshifter (talk) 23:03, 2 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Timeshifter: I can't tell the difference between the three versions, which is probably a good thing from my perspective. They all read well. Graham87 (talk) 06:22, 3 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! --Timeshifter (talk) 16:56, 3 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

story · music · places

November begins with a Bach cantata that ends with a love duet (see story) in which he invites to the wedding and she quotes a bridal song. - Judith Blegen was on the same page until recently, and I hope to see Marisa Manchado there soon. - My calendar image shows ginkgo leaves and fruits like a carpet in one colour with just fine-lined structures. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 3 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Gwyneth Jones 90, a good reason to give an article some references. I saw the scene pictured in my story, - the pic features in the infobox discussion of Götterdämmerung. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 7 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Gerda Arendt: She actually did sing the title role of Elektra, unlike the false newspaper report about Caitlin Hulcup's early career. :-) I think I'd only encountered Jones's name while trying to get a handle on that role's voice type. In this interview with the Royal Opera, she described it as her favourite role and said she waited twenty years to perform it. The anecdotes at the end of that clip about the disastrous attempt to incorporate horses in the Bayreuth Festival performances are amusing. Graham87 (talk) 02:56, 8 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Sure she was Elektra, and her sister before, and her mother afterwards, and the article even claimed that she was the only one to perform all three, but without reference, as the rest of the article. I'm quite proud I changed that last minute, and only yesterday I noticed that Bayreuth Festivals's bio is taken from GSL (which I knew) but that they didn't take it all, so there may still be bits that GSL has which are not in the article, and for the films, I just searched for a ref for the last fact in a paragraph. - The first Elektra I "met" (per recording of the "duet" meeting her brother who she thought was dead, and then cries "Orest" in an unforgettable way, and he has nothing more to say) was Inge Borkh. I saw it late, with three wonderful ladies, also the Klytemnestra a former Brünnhilde on the same stage. - Now it's time to remember Bach's BWV 52: story, listen, watchlist, expand - in that order ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:17, 8 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Herbert Blomstedt, remembered here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Gerda Arendt: Seems like you pasted the Hindemith link in there by accident. Graham87 (talk) 14:13, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hindemith? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:27, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Gerda Arendt: In the 10th November story; sorry for being unclear. To be honest I've never gotten hugely in to Bruckner beyond his motets, particularly Locus iste, but I wanted to see what I'd think of the music anyway ... I just read that Blomstedt was conducting Mahler at age 98; wow! Graham87 (talk) 14:34, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, that helped! - That Hindemith was simply yesterday's, the opera on its centenary. I was confused because also yesterday, I had added to Blomstedt's article that Mathis der Maler was in his first symphonic program., along with a Bach Orchestral Suite. The new link in the story is of a rehearsal, and I haven't listened much yet, - he clearly greets them (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) with "Guten Morgen" = good morning. For you a complete symphony may be better, perhaps the Seventh friends and I heard in 2023, - no video from that performance, but here's one with the Bamberg Symphony (not a video but music to a photo, - you will not mind). Others are with Staatskapelle, Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks. Yeah I gathered that the rehearsal wouldn't work for me too well once I heard it, but I liked the musical excerpt I heard when he first got the orchestra to play. Re the complete symphonies: I like his wide-open melodies (like the first theme of the 7th, say), but as a whole, even a single movement feels like a bit much for me. But the baroque/classical eras are more my home ground ... and I see Blomstedt was renowned for his Beethoven. Graham87 (talk) 15:42, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Sip and enjoy, I hope it helps you relax and have fun. You are a great Wikipedian, and we enjoy having you. I haven't experienced being blind, neither have I dealt with an emotional administrator recall, but both are certainly rough. Unsurprising (use any pronouns) knock knock? who's there? 📝 👥 23:09, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Unsurprising: Thanks very much! Graham87 (talk) 05:36, 11 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Unsurprising, did you know that Graham features a pic on his user page that I took? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:26, 11 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

I saw it. A nice picture of him playing the piano indeed, which is a major reason I want to play piano with you, @Gerda Arendt! ;D -- 🩷 unsurprising (🌸 shannon 🌸, 🍃 agender 🍃) knock knock? who's there? 📝 12:42, 11 November 2026 (UTC)Reply