User talk:Voxclamans

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Hello, Voxclamans, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  Moreschi Request a recording? 18:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Assuming you are who you say you are, I am delighted to see you at Wikipedia. We need some more people who know what they are talking about. I've replied to your post at Gaetano Guadagni. Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 18:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Farinelli and Senesino feedback

Your work on both articles looks excellent to me, unsurprisingly. I don't think anyone's going to complain: in fact, too much more of that and you'll be in danger of getting a barnstar. And I've replied again at the Guadagni talk.

More generally, I think you'll find that coverage of opera singers in general and castrati in particular is not terribly wonderful at Wikipedia, so there's lots of room for you to spread your wings. Category:Castrati contains some not-so-wonderful articles and a fair few that are simply missing. The ones I've written up using New Grove aren't so bad, and you can see which ones they are from the list on my userpage. The only person - little exaggeration - working on these articles up to now has been self, so perhaps little surprise that quantity and quality is lacking in general. As regards 18th-century singers in general, most articles are just absent: no John Beard, no Susanna Cibber, etc. If coverage of Handel's opera team is bad, coverage of his oratorio singers is far worse. So, plenty of room for work. Feel free to experiment, the great thing about Wikipedia is that someone will always come and fix it afterwards. On that note, I'd be dancing jigs around the computer if you decided to join us at Wikipedia's very own Opera Project, which provides a useful place for collaboration on Wikipedia's opera-related topics.

One more thing: a friend of mine, Nick Mitchell, never fails to sing your praises as a countertenor: I don't suppose that long-term you'd consider doing any recordings for Wikipedia? We are always in desperate need of more free-content audio to illuminate our articles. User:Makemi does some recordings of this type, if you want to talk to her about this. This is turning into welcome overload, so I'll stop there.

And memo to self: must remember to buy a copy of your book on Alessandro M. Last time I was at the Handel House it had sold out, annoyingly. Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 20:13, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pacchierotti feedback

Congrats, nice article. I've got no idea why you couldn't find it in a search, maybe just a server lag. Anyway, I created some redirects for the variants of his name, put the article into some categories, and cleaned up the referencing a bit so that it conforms with the current fad for formatting. If you feel like joining WP:WPO at any time just add your username to the "Participants" section on the project page. Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 19:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Aye, all your stuff looks good. I liked the rewrite for Alessandro M. To create redirects, if that's what you were asking? Let's say I wanted to create a redirect for Alessandro Moreski to Alessandro Moreschi. I'd go to the redlink - the page that doesn't exist yet - and then add #REDIRECT [[Alessandro Moreschi]]. Then just click save page. WP:REDIRECT might help. There's a list of categories at the bottom of most articles that you can see in the edit window: just add what need adding there. Hope this helps. Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 11:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Wow, impressive stuff. It's a fantastic story for Guadagni: is there much probability of it actually being true? That's mostly the reason why I took it out - having put it in in the first place -, but now you've expanded the article so much it's certainly well worth having. I rather feel, on occasion, that it's necessary to include more personal details sometimes when writing singer biographies: articles are rather dull when they read just a recitation of the activities of machines made for singing. Stuff like Gaetano Berenstadt's collections: ditto Senseino, etc.
BTW, when linking words and putting them in italics at the same time, the wikimarks for the italics go outside those for the links: so we get Messiah (Handel), rather than [[Messiah (Handel)]]. I think you made that mistake at Guadagni. But fantastic work, really wonderful. Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 13:58, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, and one more thing. Is that Colley Cibber at Valentino Urbani? Grove didn't say which Cibber it was, there seem to have been quite a few. Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 13:58, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks for all your helpful comments. The Guadagni story is likely to be true - Pat Howard quotes it, and she is a very good scholar. Walpole really had it in for G - this wasn't the only time he did him down! As to Cibber and Urbani, I imagine it was Colley, but am not sure. All best, Nick--voxclamans 14:32, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recordings

Hello, and welcome! Always nice to see another singer. I have done a few recordings for Wikipedia. You can listen to them on our sister-site, at commons:User:Makemi, the top ones are for a sort of Child ballads project I've been working on, the lower ones are more early-music type stuff. I've started setting up a board to coordinate recordings for Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Requested recordings. I've had trouble recording much myself because I've left school and don't have an accompanist here. One thing it would be great if you could do would be Mystery's song from The Fairy-Queen, and I'm sure there are some Handel things which would be helpful, perhaps something from Giulio Cesare? It's best to upload them to commons, since then they can be used on the articles in other languages without being re-uploaded. Any, glad to have you! Mak (talk) 01:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nicholas Clapton

I put up a new article for Nicholas Clapton, but it relies too heavily on your website. Can you add some more independent references with reviews of your singing and some more news articles about you? Also, of course, please fix any inaccuracies that I have introduced. Welcome to WP! -- Ssilvers 23:23, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I took a look at your changes. A few questions: It says that you "read" music at Magdalen College. For us colonials, what does that mean? I took it to mean "studied" music? Don't you want to say anything about the Locrian Ensemble in the article? Can you specify what/when you sang a the Royal Opera House and other particularly notable venues? Just some thoughts. Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers 13:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Castrato article on Main Page

Don't know if you'll get this by the time it's still there, but Giuseppe Millico was featured in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page today. It's an OK article but a bit on the short side: I don't know whether you'd be able to expand it? Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 22:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem. You should have seen the amount of vandalism like that on April Fools. I reverted nigh on 200 times in one day :) Cheers, Moreschi Request a recording? 13:28, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
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