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#11851

Donald Hustad

#175187

Overall Influence

1918 - 2013 (95 years)

Donald Paul Hustad was a recognized leader in evangelical church music for six decades. Although he was an esteemed musician, composer, and teacher, Hustad's richest legacy resides in his informed criticism of evangelical church music and his well-developed philosophy of worship communicated through lectures, articles, and books.

#11852

Věnceslava Hrubá-Freiberger

#185722

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Věnceslava Hrubá-Freiberger is a Czech-German soprano. Life Born in Dublovice, Freiberger studied at the Prague Conservatory with the singing teachers V. Passerová and L. Michelová. From 1968 to 1970, she was a member of the opera choir at the National Theatre in Prague. Her solo career began in 1970 at the Plzeň Opera. From 1972 to 1988 she was an ensemble member at the Leipzig Opera. After her marriage to the solo violist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Eberhard Freiberger, she emerged primarily as an interpreter of oratorios and orchestral works by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Fri...

#11853

Kristin Korb

#181122

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Kristin Korb is an American jazz double bassist and vocalist. Biography Korb studied at Eastern Montana College and the University of California, San Diego. She also studied with Ray Brown, with whom she made her recording debut, released in 1996.

#11854

Dan Wall

#186533

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Daniel Lee Wall, Jr. is an American jazz organist and pianist. Wall was leading his own small group at Atlanta club the Carousel while still in high school. He attended the Berklee College of Music, then worked with Karl Ratzer from 1974 to 1977. Following this he played extensively with Jeremy Steig and recorded with Ike Isaacs and Maxine Sullivan; he would also lead a trio with Isaacs and Steve Ellington during this time. In the 1980s he worked with Steve Grossman, Jimmy Madison, Henry Mancini, David Earle Johnson, and Eddie Gomez, and in the 1990s with John Abercrombie, Adam Nussbaum, Christoph Schweitzer, and Jerry Bergonzi.

#11855

Charles L. Bestor

#171714

Overall Influence

1924 - 2016 (92 years)

Charles Lemon Bestor was an American composer of contemporary classical music, professor, and administrator. Early life Charles Lemon Bestor was born on December 21, 1924 in New York City. He studied with Paul Hindemith at Yale University. He later studied with Vincent Persichetti and Peter Mennin at the Juilliard School, and independently with Vladimir Ussachevsky. He holds degrees from Swarthmore College , the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

#11856

Aleksander Lasoń

#186082

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Aleksander Lasoń is a Polish composer and teacher. He was born in Siemianowice Śląskie. He studied composition under professor Józef Świder's at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He is professor at the University of Silesia and at the Academy of Music in Katowice.

#11857

John Field

#106125

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

John William Michael Field is an Australian composer and songwriter. He was a founding mainstay member of the Sydney pub rock band the Cockroaches on rhythm guitar and sharing lead vocals. He has written tracks for the children's music group, the Wiggles, including "Hot Potato". His brothers, Paul Field and Anthony Field , were also bandmates in the Cockroaches.

#11858

Baruch Arnon

#169843

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Baruch Arnon is a classical pianist and renowned music teacher. He is currently a faculty member at the Juilliard School in New York and has previously taught music at the Israel Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and Musica de Camera.

#11859

Edwin Penhorwood

#189504

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Edwin Penhorwood is an American composer who is an assistant professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Biography Penhorwood is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and studied music at the University of Iowa. He has taught at the International School of Zurich, Switzerland, at the Church Music Conservatory in Berlin, the University of Missouri, and Indiana University, and has accompanied singers and instrumentalists in North America and in Europe for many years. Penhorwood joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1993. He is the musical director of the Graduate Opera Workshop and...

#11860

Raphael Hillyer

#174769

Overall Influence

1914 - 2010 (96 years)

Raphael Hillyer was a Jewish American viola soloist, teacher. Born Raphael Silverman in Ithaca, New York, his career included playing in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and co-founding the Juilliard String Quartet. Hillyer was still lecturing and teaching viola at Boston University during the final month of his life.

#11861

Valerie Frissen

Valerie Frissen

#133125

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Valerie Frissen holds the extraordinary professorship in ‘ICT and Social Change’ at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam where she belongs to the group of Professor Dr. Jos de Mul. The chair is sponsored by the Dutch governmental research organization TNO, where Valerie Frissen is also head of the ICT & Policy department of TNO Information and Communication Technology. She is also a member of the board of Het Expertise Centrum in The Hague.

#11862

Melia Watras

#175257

Overall Influence

Melia Watras is an American violist, composer and professor of viola. She is a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist, who has commissioned, premiered and recorded numerous new compositions, and appeared at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Her compositions have been performed in the United States and Europe. Educated at Indiana University and the Juilliard School, Watras has been on the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle since the fall of 2004, where she is Chair of Strings.

#11863

Haig Mardirosian

Haig Mardirosian

#189213

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Haig Mardirosian is Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa, Professor Emeritus at American University in Washington, DC, a concert organist, composer, and conductor. He has performed in many of the most important concert venues throughout North America and Europe. He has over a dozen commercial recordings to his credit including well known and respected performances of the organ works of Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Petr Eben, and Jean Langlais.

#11864

Helen Roberts

#188230

Overall Influence

1912 - 2010 (98 years)

Helen Florence Roberts , later known as Betty Roberts and by her married name, Betty Walker, was an English singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

#11865

Ludwig Lenel

#170912

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Ludwig Lenel was an organist and composer. Early life and education Ludwig Lenel was born May 20, 1914, in Strasburg, Germany during the German Empire in present-day France, the son of the late Walter and Luise Lenel. During his youth, Lenel met and was strongly influenced by Albert Schweitzer, who frequently stayed with the Lenel family while visiting Heidelberg.

#11866

Alfredo Perl

#171858

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Alfredo Perl is a Chilean-German classical pianist and conductor, best known for his recitals of Beethoven's sonatas. Biography He began playing the piano from a young age. He studied at the Chilean National Conservatory under Carlos Botto Vallarino, and later under Günter Ludwig in Germany and Maria Curcio in London. Since then, Perl has worked with Mitsuko Uchida, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim.

#11867

Paul DeMarinis

#155857

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Paul DeMarinis is an American visual and sound artist, specializing in electronic music composer, sound, performance, and computer-based artist. Since the 1970s he has been active in creating digital sound sculptures, one of the early innovators of sound art. He is currently a professor of art at Stanford University.

#11868

Steve Kirby

#187044

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Steve Kirby is an American jazz bassist, composer, and educator. Biography Kirby was born in Maumee Valley, Ohio, and his family moved to St. Louis when he was two. He began playing guitar and bass guitar while stationed at Fort Bragg, and following this he attended Webster University, receiving his degree in 1985. He worked in ensembles and then got his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music, where he played with Lester Bowie. In 1988 he returned to Webster, where he taught until 1993.

#11869

Ron Westray

#183607

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Ronald Kenneth Westray, Jr. is an American jazz trombonist, composer, and educator. He holds a B.A. from South Carolina State University and a Master of Arts degree from Eastern Illinois University. He has played with Marcus Roberts, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra , and has been a regular member of the Mingus Big Band. In 2005 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2009 he was appointed to the Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance at York University.

#11870

Mark Hayes

#183186

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Mark Hayes is an American composer and arranger. His predominant output is of choral music in the Christian sacred music and gospel music genres. Biography Hayes was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and attended elementary school in Normal, Illinois. After receiving a bachelor's degree in piano performance magna cum laude from Baylor University in 1975, he entered a career in composing and arranging music. Hayes moved to Kansas City in the late 1970s.

#11871

Clifford Ford

#184195

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Clifford Robert Ford is a Canadian composer, editor, music educator, and author. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he is a founding member of ARRAYMUSIC and a former member of the music faculties of McMaster University and Dalhousie University. He co-founded the Canadian Musical Heritage Society for which he is executive secretary and technical editor.

#11872

Anđelko Klobučar

#182344

Overall Influence

1931 - 2016 (85 years)

Anđelko Klobučar , was a Croatian composer, organist and music pedagogue. Born in Zagreb, Klobučar studied at the Zagreb Academy of Music and later in Salzburg and Paris, where he studied composition with André Jolivet. His older brother Berislav Klobučar became successful conductor. Anđelko became titular organist of the Zagreb Cathedral in 1958 and played until 2004. From 1987 he shared this position with Hvalimira Bledšnajder. He worked as the organ professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music for only two years, 1972 and 1973. His organ students were Hvalimira Bledšnajder , Jesenka Tješić and...

#11873

Linnar Priimägi

#107555

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Linnar Priimägi is an Estonian art historian, journalist, literary critic, poet and actor. He graduated from Tartu State University in philology, Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University . Priimägi is a docent at Tallinn University. He has taught German language, art history and theory of literary criticism at the University of Tartu, history of philosophy at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and cultural history at Tallinn Pedagogical University and Tallinn University.

#11874

Zhao Jin

#187464

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Zhao Jin is a Chinese professor of German linguistics and a scholar in cultural-analytical linguistics. Education and career Zhao Jin completed her undergraduate study in 1991 and her master's study in 1997 at the Tongji University. She subsequently received a DAAD-scholarship and was awarded a doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg.

#11875

Jack R. Anderson

#160921

Overall Influence

Jack R. Anderson was appointed Director of Bands at the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 after serving as assistant director at Pitt for 9 years. His responsibilities include directing the Varsity Marching Band, leading the Pep Band, and conducting the Symphonic Band. As a music educator in Pennsylvania for 37 years, he has served as a guest conductor and adjudicator for PMEA throughout Western Pennsylvania. On 10 September 2012, he announced his retirement to members of the marching band at rehearsal and in an email to band alumni, to be effective at the conclusion of the 2012–2013 academic ...

#11876

David Higgs

#179981

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David Higgs is an American organist. He has given a large number of recitals and is the head of the organ department at the Eastman School of Music. Life Higgs earned his B.M. and M.M. at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, with a Performer's Certificate following from Eastman. He was on the faculty at Manhattan from 1983–86 and was Associate Organist of Riverside Church in New York, where he also conducted the Riverside Choral Society. He then moved to the San Francisco area to join the faculty of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. In 1992, he moved to Rochester, NY, where he joined the faculty at Eastman.

#11877

Wolfram Menschick

#181713

Overall Influence

1937 - 2010 (73 years)

Wolfram Menschick was a German Catholic church musician, composer and academic teacher. From 1969 to 2002 he was responsible for the church music at Eichstätt Cathedral, also serving the Diocese of Eichstätt as music director and organ expert. He was a bell expert, a member of a national council. From 1986 to 2000, he was a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. His compositions, including 36 masses, are frequently performed.

#11878

Paolo Ugoletti

#187757

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Paolo Ugoletti is an Italian composer. Biography Composer Paolo Ugoletti was born in Brescia on 7 June 1956. He studied composition in 1973 at the Conservatory of Brescia with Giancarlo Facchinetti and Giovanni Ugolini and then at the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan with Giacomo Manzoni. From 1977 to 1979 Ugoletti attended Franco Donatoni's composition course at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena where he obtains the diploma of merit.

#11879

Kay Griffel

#184359

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Kay Griffel is an American operatic spinto soprano. Early life and education After earning a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University, she pursued further studies with Lotte Lehmann at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. She received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Rockefeller Foundation Grant. In 1962 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She also won a competition sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In the mid 1960s she pursued graduate studies at the Musikhochschule Berlin. She also received further instruction from Nadia Boula...

#11880

Eleanor Sanger

#188937

Overall Influence

1929 - 1993 (64 years)

Eleanor Sanger was a 7-time Emmy-award-winning television writer and producer, who was the first woman Network Sports Producer. "Women television producers are still as rare as Howard Cosell's silences, but at least one has begun to break through the double barriers of televised sports. That rarity is Eleanor Riger, the lone distaff on any network sports team." The New York Times, January 8, 1974.

#11881

Milenko Stefanović

Milenko Stefanović

#176032

Overall Influence

1930 - 2022 (92 years)

Milenko Stefanović was a Serbian classical and jazz clarinetist. He was a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow, Munich, Geneva and Prague, and achieved an international career as a soloist. He was a long-time principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor of Clarinet at the University of Priština and University of the Arts in Belgrade.

#11882

Daniel Sysoev

#175258

Overall Influence

1974 - 2009 (35 years)

Daniel Alexeyevich Sysoev was a Russian Orthodox priest, the rector of St. Thomas' church in southern Moscow and a prominent missionary. He was killed in his church in Moscow by a masked gunman on November 19, 2009. Sysoev was known for his missionary activity, including among Russia's Muslim community, neo-Pagans, and Protestants. In December 2009, Sysoev's murder was claimed by a militant Islamic group based in the North Caucasus. According to a statement made by Russian Islamists and released on kavkazcenter.com,

#11883

Terry Clarke

#178952

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Terence Michael "Terry" Clarke C.M. is a Canadian jazz drummer. Clarke studied percussion with Jim Blackley and played with Chris Gage and Dave Robbins early in his career. From 1965 to 1967 he toured in a quintet with John Handy, and joined The Fifth Dimension in 1967, remaining with the ensemble until 1969.

#11884

Phia Berghout

#185032

Overall Influence

1909 - 1993 (84 years)

Sophia Rosa Berghout was a Dutch harpist. Her obituary in The Independent called her "arguably the most influential harpist this century". Career She was born in Rotterdam on 14 December 1909 and started playing the harp when she was 15 years old. She studied the harp at the Amsterdam Conservatoire with . She played in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, as second harp 1933-1945 and principal harp 1945–1960, as well as having a successful solo career. She taught at the Amsterdam Conservatoire and then, from 1974, at the Maastricht Conservatoire.

#11885

James Adler

#184251

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

James Adler is an American composer and pianist. Adler began his piano studies at age 10 with Elsie K. Brett. His teachers include Rose Willits, Mollie Margolies and Seymour Lipkin. He has coached with Rudolph Ganz, Ivan Moravec, Olga Barabini and Konrad Wolff.

#11886

Maurice Stern

#190056

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Maurice Stern is an American operatic tenor and sculptor. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music. He made his debut at the New York City Opera as The Emperor Altuom in Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, and received a laudatory solo review by Eric Salzman of The New York Times for that small role.

#11887

Boris Pergamenschikow

#184714

Overall Influence

1948 - 2004 (56 years)

Boris Mironowitsch Pergamenschikow, , , was a Russian-born cellist. His father was also a cellist, and gave his son his first lessons. In 1974, Boris Pergamenschikow won a gold medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 1977, he emigrated from the USSR to the West, which enabled him to start an international career. In 1984, his debut in New York was enthusiastically reviewed. Over the following years he performed as a soloist with leading orchestras and acclaimed as a chamber musician.

#11888

John Drummond

#189026

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John Drummond is a New Zealand musicologist, academic, and composer. Academic career Drummond graduated with a BA and BMus from Leeds University before completing his PhD at Birmingham University. He was Haywood Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham in 1969 and then Lecturer in Music there from 1970 to 1976. In 1976 he took up his appointment as Blair Professor of Music at the University of Otago a post he held until his retirement in 2014. From 2002 to 2006 he was Dean of the School of Language, Literature and Performing Arts at Otago, from 2006 to 2009 Associate Dean in the Division of Humanities, and from 2010 to 2011 Humanities Ambassador for the University.

#11889

Natalya Boyarskaya

#180809

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Natalya Konstantinovna Boyarskaya is a Russian violinist and music teacher. She is the wife of the cellist Alexander Boyarsky and mother of the violist Konstantin Boyarsky. Biography She studied violin at Moscow Conservatory Music College under Maya Glezarova and Yuri Yankelevich, and later graduated from Felix Andrievsky's class at Gnessin State Musical College. From 1971 to 1990 she taught at the junior department of Moscow Conservatory Music College, heading the Strings Department there. In 1991, at the invitation of Yehudi Menuhin, she moved to London and began teaching at Yehudi Menuhin ...

#11890

Marcela Del Río Reyes

#172255

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Marcela Yolanda Del Río y Reyes is an intellectual, professor, journalist, diplomat and writer. Her works cover national and global issues. Early life Del Río Reyes was born in Coyoacán, Mexico City and grew up in a family of writers. Her mother, María Aurelia Reyes de del Río, was a writer, journalist and painter. Her father, Manuel del Río Govea, was a lawyer, historian and was a former child actor. Her brother, Carlos Pacheco Reyes, was a philosopher, journalist and psychiatrist. She learned to paint and inherited her liking for literature and classical music from her mother. Her interest ...

#11891

Phil DeGreg

#178398

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Phil DeGreg is an American jazz pianist and professor. Life and career After graduating from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1972, Phil DeGreg studied psychology at Yale University. Later, he played in a folk rock duo in New Haven–area coffee shops. Influenced by the music of Bill Evans, he switched to jazz and played in a student jazz band at Yale. Eventually, he moved to Kansas City and joined the local jazz scene. He then studied at the North Texas State University College of Music from 1979 to 1982, completing a master's degree and performing and recording as a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band.

#11892

Lawrence Moss

#182748

Overall Influence

1927 - 2022 (95 years)

Lawrence Kenneth Moss was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Los Angeles. He held a B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. from the Eastman School of Music, and a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Southern California, where his instructors included Leon Kirchner and Ingolf Dahl.

#11893

Edward Laufer

#186466

Overall Influence

1938 - 2014 (76 years)

Edward Constantin Laufer was a Canadian music theorist, composer and teacher. Laufer was born in Zürich. His family emigrated to Canada in 1939, settling in Halifax. Laufer obtained his bachelor of music degree from the University of Toronto in 1957 and his Masters of Music degree from the same institution in 1960. He studied composition with John Weinzweig, John Beckwith, Oskar Morawetz, and Tālivaldis Ķeniņš. Some time after 1960 he temporarily settled in the New York area, attending the Juilliard School where he studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Vincent Persichetti.

#11894

Fred Sturm

#168022

Overall Influence

1951 - 2014 (63 years)

Frederick I. Sturm was a jazz composer, arranger and teacher. Sturm studied at Lawrence University, the University of North Texas College of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. He played trombone and performed with the jazz nonet Matrix from 1974 to 1977. He served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University from 1977 to 1991, then joined the Eastman School of Music faculty as professor of jazz composition/arranging, conductor of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Studio Orchestra, and chair of the Eastman Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media Department. In 2002, he returned home to Wisc...

#11895

Malcolm Peyton

#188899

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Malcolm Cameron Peyton is an American composer, concert director, conductor, and teacher. Biography Peyton grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and received early classical training in piano starting at age 6, and in trumpet starting at age 9. From 1950 to 1956 he attended Princeton University for both undergraduate and graduate training in musical composition, studying with Edward Cone and Roger Sessions, and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship. In 1956–57 Peyton traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany to study with Wolfgang Fortner. From 1958 through 1961 Peyton, along with...

#11896

Brian Oliver

#175673

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Brian Oliver is an American film producer, film executive and founder of New Republic Pictures. He was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA Film Award in 2010 for Black Swan. Education Oliver holds a bachelor's degree from the UC Berkeley, as well as a J.D. from Whittier College School of Law. While at UC Berkeley, Oliver was an All-Conference infielder on the baseball team.

#11897

Stanley Leonard

#169562

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Stanley Sprenger Leonard is a timpanist, composer and educator who has been active in the percussion world for over seventy years. While Principal Timpanist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for 38 years , he performed internationally with the symphony in concerts, television productions, and recordings." The Christian Science Monitor claimed, "...his performance of the solo part establishes him as perhaps the finest timpanist in the country." As a solo artist, he premiered several major new works for solo timpani and orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In a review of "Celebr...

#11898

Ergican Saydam

#180601

Overall Influence

1929 - 2009 (80 years)

Ergican Saydam was a Turkish pianist and piano pedagogue. High School, Kabataş Erkek Lisesi.He was an advocate of Turkish composers such as Cemal Reşit Rey, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Cengiz Tanç and İlhan Usmanbaş whose music he premiered and recorded. His repertory centers around German romantic literature, particularly the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann

#11899

Hywel Davies

#178052

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Hywel Davies is a freelance fashion writer and journalist based in London. Previously the fashion editor at iconic lifestyle magazine Sleazenation, he has also written for Arena, Vogue, ELLE, Wallpaper, Nylon, Dazed and Confused, Dansk, Self Service, Fashion Inc, Grafik, Time Out, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Observer, The Independent and SHOWstudio.

#11900

James Austin

#185584

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

James Lyle Austin is an American trumpeter and teacher. Austin earned his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he was featured as trumpet and cornet soloist on many of the recordings of the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of Frederick Fennell. Before completing his studies at Eastman, he accepted an offer from Leopold Stokowski to become the Principal Trumpet of the Houston Symphony, effective following his graduation. He continued in this position from 1960–1977, under the direction of several orchestral conductors including Stokowski, André Previn, John Barbirolli, and Lawrence Foster.

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