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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:28, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
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Judita Nagyová
... that Judita Nagyová, a mezzo-soprano from Slovakia at the Oper Frankfurt, was the alto soloist in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?Source: several, Beethoven: [1]- Reviewed:
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Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Self-nominated at 09:21, 18 March 2022 (UTC).
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Hook eligibility:
- Cited:
- Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith - Interesting:
- no
QPQ: 
- TBD
Overall: 
I'm afraid that most readers won't grasp what's interesting or hooky about this hook (it's going over my head as well). (t · c) buidhe 21:51, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- I reviewed now Template:Did you know nominations/Juice (2017 film). Most readers - even if not into classical music - will know that symphony. In other words (and they changed the text to Freiheit! (freedom!), as after the fall of the Berlin wall:
- ALT0a: ... that when the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed in Frankfurt's Alte Oper in a charity concert for Ukraine, Judita Nagyová from Slovakia was a solo singer? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- buidhe, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:26, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Storye book, can you perhaps help again? The event is pictured on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
I am happy to approve ALT0a, which has 171 characters. For a start, i's topical and international. And anyone might recognise Beethoven's 9th. The Ode to Joy theme was the callsign for Radio Luxemburg, when long ago I used to listen to it, like all the other kids, under the bedcovers, when it would start to transmit at around 7pm in the UK. It had better music than our UK radio stations, it played Motown and jazz. That brings happy memories. Oh, and it played Beethoven. So yeah. Passed, in my opinion. Storye book (talk) 09:27, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you, Storye book, - it would just need an icon, remember ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:43, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- Done. I hesitated to do that, in case the original reviewer wanted to add anything. But that review was a while ago, maybe they have lost interest. Storye book (talk) 09:49, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Anybody with objections could still do that. It's been done a lot, and each time I think: when someone approved, could another not look at a different nom? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:03, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- Done. I hesitated to do that, in case the original reviewer wanted to add anything. But that review was a while ago, maybe they have lost interest. Storye book (talk) 09:49, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you, Storye book, - it would just need an icon, remember ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:43, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt and Storye book: I'm proposing a rearrangement of ALT0a below, as I think readers today are more likely to read shorter hooks (due to social media). I'm also proposing a slight, grammatical rewording in ALTc which I think has a better flow:
- ALT0b: ...that Judita Nagyová from Slovakia was a solo singer in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a charity concert for Ukraine in Frankfurt's Alte Oper?
- ALT0c: ...that in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, performed in Frankfurt's Alte Oper in a charity concert for Ukraine, Judita Nagyová from Slovakia was a solo singer?
Thoughts? Which ALT do you prefer? Z1720 (talk) 17:37, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- I always prefer the subject first, so b, and perhaps we drop Alte Oper here, and just say Frankfurt, not to bore readers. Same concert as the soprano. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:46, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- I would be happy with ALT0b, with or without Alte Oper. Storye book (talk) 18:26, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- I always prefer the subject first, so b, and perhaps we drop Alte Oper here, and just say Frankfurt, not to bore readers. Same concert as the soprano. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:46, 10 April 2022 (UTC)