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#12251

Kaare Ørnung

#189312

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

Kaare Alexander Ørnung was a Norwegian pianist and music teacher. Biography Ørnung was born on 26 January 1931 in Oslo. He made his debut in 1952, worked at the Veitvet Music Academy between 1959 and 1973, and at the Opera College in 1968. From 1973, he was a lecturer at the Norwegian Academy, then associate professor from 1974.

#12252

Sascha Meinrath

Sascha Meinrath

#189130

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Sascha Meinrath is an American policy activist and educator. He is currently the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University. Meinrath founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and directed the Institute while also serving as Vice President of the New America Foundation.

#12253

Randy Sabien

#178859

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Randy Sabien is an American jazz violinist, composer, and music educator known for his live performances and numerous recordings, many of them on Flying Fish Records and Red House Records. At the age of 21 he founded and chaired the Jazz Strings department at Boston's Berklee College of Music and since 2009 has been the chair of the Strings department of McNally Smith College of Music.

#12254

Mathias Breitschaft

#184726

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mathias Breitschaft is a German church musician and university teacher. Biography Breitschaft began his musical career as a member of the boys' choir Regensburger Domspatzen. After his studies of music at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Helmuth Rilling and Kurt Hessenberg, he headed the Limburger Domsingknaben from 1973 to 1985. In 1985 he was appointed cathedral conductor at the Mainz Cathedral. In addition to the direction of the Mainzer Domchor, he was the founder of the Cathedral Chorale and the girls' choir of the Mainz Cathedral . He taught as a lecturer and professor for choral conducting at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt.

#12255

Johannes Driessler

#184206

Overall Influence

1921 - 1998 (77 years)

Johannes Driessler was a German composer, organist, and lecturer. He composed operas, chamber music, and especially sacred music both vocal and for organ. Life and work Driessler was born in Friedrichsthal on 26 January 1921. He studied from 1939 at the Pädagogische Akademie Dortmund, and from 1940 composition and organ at the Musikhochschule Köln. In November 1940, Driessler enlisted in the military; in 1944 he married Gertrude Ledermann. After World War II, he became a teacher in 1945 in Schondorf am Ammersee. In 1946, he became a lecturer at the newly founded Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold.

#12256

Paul Grimm

#125062

Overall Influence

1907 - 1993 (86 years)

Paul Grimm was a German prehistorian and also a pioneer of Medieval archaeology, especially of the excavation of abandoned villages and castles. Grimm worked on various periods, but mainly in central Germany – the names of two important Neolithic archaeological cultures in the area, the Baalberge group and the Salzmünde group derive from him. His comprehensive excavations at and were important milestones in the history of German archaeology.

#12257

Sam Black

#174337

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Samuel Black was a British public relations manager involved in the founding of the Institute for Public Relations in 1948, and the International Public Relations Association in 1955. He wrote eighteen books on the subject of public relations and organised over 200 exhibitions all over the world showcasing the British industry. This work in exhibitions gained him an MBE in 1969 for Services to Export.

#12258

Hunter Johnson

#170723

Overall Influence

1906 - 1998 (92 years)

Hunter Johnson was an American composer. His compositions include a piano sonata and the orchestral music for Martha Graham's ballets Letter to the World, based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, and Deaths and Entrances. His musical style was a combination of neoclassic, neoromantic, and nationalist.

#12259

Ulf Wallin

#153951

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Ulf Wallin is a Swedish classical violinist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Life Born in Växjö, Wallin studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm and at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. He began his career as a soloist and chamber music player. Later he taught as a visiting scholar at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Since 1996 he's holding a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.

#12260

Bill Mobley

#171876

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Joseph William Mobley is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. Early life and education Mobley was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Both of his parents were musicians. Mobley learned piano, his mother's instrument, from age five, and while his father sang and played trombone and trumpet, Mobley did not have formal trumpet lessons in his youth. He studied music education at North Texas State University in 1971 and 1972, then returned to Memphis, where he played with Herman Green and James Williams. He earned a bachelor's degree from Rhodes College in 1976.

#12261

Henry Price

#190918

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Henry Price III is a well-known American operatic tenor, who was a pupil of the tenor Eugene Conley. He made his formal debut with the Goldovsky Opera Theater in 1970, as Alfredo Germont in La traviata.

#12262

David Hartt

#178409

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

David Hartt is a Canadian artist and educator living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hartt works across various media to examine the transformation of ideas and histories over time. Education Hartt received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1991 and a Master in Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994.

#12263

Cirilo Vila

#181641

Overall Influence

1937 - 2015 (78 years)

Cirilo Vila Castro was a Chilean composer, pianist, and academic, and the winner of the National Prize for Musical Arts in 2004. Career and life Castro began his musical studies at age seven at the National Conservatory of Music of the University of Chile, where he majored in Music Performance with a minor in pianos in 1959. He participated in the Symphony Orchestra of Chile in 1954, and was awarded the Orrego Carvallo award in 1957. In parallel, he studied composition with Alfonso Letelier and Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt . In the early 1960s, thanks to a grant from the Italian government, he traveled to Rome to study conducting at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory with Professor Franco Ferrara.

#12264

Mary Jeanne van Appledorn

#174647

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Mary Jeanne van Appledorn was an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Education and career Van Appledorn attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she studied piano and theory with Bernard Rogers and Alan Hovhaness. She received her Bachelor of Music in 1948, her Masters of Music in 1950, and her Ph.D. in music theory from Eastman in 1966. She also completed post-doctoral studies in computer-synthesized sound at MIT in 1982. She was a member of the music faculty of Texas Tech University from 1950 until 2008. She was the Paul Whitfield Horn Pr...

#12265

William Hale

#182488

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

William Hale was an American film and television director. He is best known for such films and television series as The Virginian, Journey to Shiloh, SOS Titanic, The Murder of Mary Phagan and The Streets of San Francisco.

#12266

Vladimir Verbitsky

#180477

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Vladimir Igoryevich Verbitsky is a Soviet and Australian conductor. He was born in Leningrad. He studied piano and conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He has been chief conductor of the Voronezh Philharmonic Orchestra since 1972, and conducts other Russian orchestras. From 1982 to 1984 he was the chief conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic. He has recorded widely.

#12267

Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller

#185111

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller was born on 13 April 1973 in Gräfelfing, near Munich, Bavaria, and is a German poet and translator. She lives and works in Augsburg. Life and work Ann grew up in a Munich suburb, where she finished school with the Abitur in 1992. After that she studied German literature and American literature and Media law at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and trained as a Bookseller. After ten years of part-time work in a bookshop, which she used to build up her freelance business, she now works as a freelance translator and editor for literary and specialized texts. She st...

#12268

Veronika Krausas

#180396

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Veronika Judita Krausas is a Canadian composer who lives and works in the United States. Biography She was born in Sydney, Australia but grew up in Canada after the age of four. Her diplomas in music education and performance were completed at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. She also completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Calgary , a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Toronto , a master's degree at McGill University in Montreal , and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles , where she received the outstanding DMA in Composition award.

#12269

Brian T. Field

#189808

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Brian T. Field is an American composer of music for chamber groups, choirs and orchestras. He is noted for thematically pairing his music with topics of activism and social issues, particularly climate change and immigration. Field has taught at Columbia University, Seton Hall University, and American University.

#12270

Alexander F. Schilt

Alexander F. Schilt

#91412

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Alexander Frank Schilt is a professor at the University of Houston in the College of Education. Schilt also served as the first chancellor of Indiana University East, the second president of the University of Houston–Downtown, the 22nd president of Eastern Washington University, and the fourth chancellor of the University of Houston System.

#12271

Jason Anick

#182761

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Jason Anick is an American jazz violinist, mandolin player and composer. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and teaches at the Berklee College of Music. Early life Anick started classical violin lessons at age six but it was the summers spent learning fiddle tunes from his father that trained his ear and liberated him early on from the printed page. He was eleven when he met Stephane Grappelli and twelve when he fiddled for President and Mrs. Clinton when they showed up at a fiddle showcase on Martha's Vineyard. In junior high school, he took a detour and started a rock band on gu...

#12272

Barbara Zeigler

#140915

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Barbara Zeigler is a Canadian visual artist with a focus in print media. She has also worked in drawing, video, installation and collaborative public art, often combining these media with her work in print to prompt questions as to the character and consequences of our existing cultural paradigms. Her artwork focuses on the evolving relationship between human culture and the ecosphere, with special consideration given to the ways in which individual and collective identity become evident through land usage. Zeigler lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

#12273

Annette Bryn Parri

Annette Bryn Parri

#178244

Overall Influence

Annette Bryn Parri is a Welsh pianist, best known as an accompanist to opera stars such as Bryn Terfel and Rebecca Evans. Parri appears regularly on the National Eisteddfod stage, and also at the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen.

#12274

Andrew McKinley

#180286

Overall Influence

1903 - 1996 (93 years)

Andrew McKinley was an American operatic tenor, violinist, arts administrator, music educator, and school administrator. Although he mainly performed in the United States, he had an active international singing career with major opera companies and symphony orchestras from the 1940s through the 1960s. His repertoire spanned a wide range, from leading tenor parts to character roles.

#12275

Peter Slowik

#179880

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Peter Slowik is an American classical musician and academic working as a professor of viola and head of the string department at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Early life and education Slowik was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music.

#12276

Jason Moss

#168897

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jason David Moss is an American musician, known for his work as the lead guitarist for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he was a member from 1992 to 2010. Biography Early life Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Moss grew up in Oregon following his family's relocation to Eugene in 1976. Influenced by hard rock and guitarists such as Jimmy Page and Ace Frehley, Moss taught himself guitar at age 14, and spent most of his early music career playing in various Eugene cover bands and a group called The Impostors. After his graduation from South Eugene High School in 1986, he left to ...

#12277

Josef Kemr

#186895

Overall Influence

1922 - 1995 (73 years)

Josef Kemr was a Czech actor. He starred in the 1969/1970 film Witchhammer under director Otakar Vávra. Selected filmography Lízin let do nebe - Jula PlichtaŠkola základ života - tercián VávraKlapzubova jedenáctka - Kid Kicking Soccer BallJarka a Věra - BoyDruhé mládí Malí velcí podvodníci Tulák Macoun - ChildCesta do hlubin studákovy duse Lízino štěstí - JulaBílá jachta ve Splitu Studujeme za školou - Václav PelísekTo byl český muzikant Prosím, pane profesore - Mysák, studentPoznej svého muže - PikolíkPro kamaráda - Císník v baruRukavička Provdám svou ženu - Poslícek z kvetinárstv...

#12278

Youri Boutsko

#190818

Overall Influence

1938 - 2015 (77 years)

Youri Boutsko was a Russian composer and professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory from 1968 to 2015. Youri Boutsko is known as an author of vocal, instrumental and chamber music as well as of music for theater and cinema. He wrote 4 Operas, 2 Oratorios, 7 Cantatas, 13 Symphonies and 18 Concertos for different instruments.

#12279

Michèle Crider

#182461

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Michèle Crider is an American lirico spinto operatic soprano. She has appeared in many of the great opera house in the world including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera and the state operas of Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. She has sung under Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnányi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly and Colin Davis. She is professor of vocal performance at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

#12280

Joseph Gramley

#185167

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Joseph Gramley is an American multi-percussionist, teacher and composer, and a founding member of the Silk Road Ensemble. As a solo performer he each year commissions and premieres new works from such emerging composers as Kojiro Umezaki and Justin Messina. His first solo recording, American Deconstruction, featuring performances of five milestone works in multi-percussion's modern repertoire, appeared in 2000 and was reissued in 2006. His second CD, Global Percussion, was released in 2005.

#12281

Eric Stokes

#182415

Overall Influence

1930 - 1999 (69 years)

Eric Stokes was a composer, whose work spanned an eclectic range of influences and styles. Stokes was born in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, about ten miles southeast of Philadelphia. His mother was a fine vocalist and the early artistic influence in his life. Stokes studied piano at an early age and began composing on his own in high school. He held degrees in music from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he taught for 29 years.

#12282

Park Jin-pyo

#184850

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Park Jin-pyo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed Too Young to Die , You Are My Sunshine , Voice of a Murderer , Closer to Heaven , and Love Forecast . Career Park Jin-pyo was born in Seoul in 1966. Upon graduation from Chung-Ang University's Film Department, he began working in television in 1991 as a documentary producer and director, eventually making over 30 documentaries for SBS and ITV.

#12283

F. R. C. Clarke

#188795

Overall Influence

1931 - 2009 (78 years)

Frederick Robert Charles Clarke, known largely by his initials F. R. C. Clarke was a Canadian musician and composer who spent most of his musical career in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Clarke was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1931. He earned the University of Toronto degrees of Bachelor of Music in 1951 and Doctor of Music in 1954. A distinguished Canadian organist, he earned the Royal Canadian College of Organists' prestigious diplomas of Associate and Fellowship by examination. Among his teachers were George Laughlin, Eric Rollinson, Kenneth Ross, Healey Willan, and S. Drummond Wolff.

#12284

Robert McBride

#185972

Overall Influence

1911 - 2007 (96 years)

Robert McBride was an American composer and instrumentalist. Life McBride was born in Tucson, Arizona, and learned from an early age to play clarinet, oboe, saxophone and the piano. He studied composition with Otto Luening at the University of Arizona, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in 1933, and a Master of Music in 1935. From 1935 until 1946 he taught at Bennington College, where he met and married his wife, Carol. He then moved to New York City, where he worked briefly as a commercial composer and arranger, at first for Triumph Films, producing scores for Farewell to Yesterday , The Man with My Face , Garden of Eden , and a number of short subjects.

#12285

Andrée Desautels

#185964

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (103 years)

Andrée Desautels was a Canadian musician, musicologist and music educator. Early life and training The daughter of and , she was born in Montreal on 9 October 1923. Desautels studied piano with Isabelle Delorme and studied at the École supérieure de musique d'Outremont. She went on to study at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Germaine Malépart, Isabelle Delorme and Claude Champagne. Desautels also studied the history of art and literature at the University of Montreal. At the Conservatoire de Paris, she studied music history with Norbert Dufourcq and aesthetics with and Alexis Roland-Manuel.

#12286

Eva Likova

#185337

Overall Influence

1919 - 2004 (85 years)

Eva Likova was an American operatic soprano of Czech descent. She was notably one of the major sopranos at the New York City Opera during the company's early years. She also made guest appearances with a number of opera houses in North America and Europe, enjoying a particularly fruitful partnership with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. After retiring from the opera stage in 1966, she embarked on a second career as a voice teacher.

#12287

Renée Beaulieu

#190983

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Renée Beaulieu is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film Adrien was released in 2015. Originally from Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, Beaulieu worked as a pharmacist until deciding to leave her job and return to film school. She is now a professor of film studies at the Université de Montréal.

#12288

Shahin Farhat

#182044

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Shahin Farhat is an Iranian musician, composer and music teacher. As one of the most famous composers of classical music in Iran, he has created numerous works based on common forms in Western music, such as: symphony, concerto, suite, cantata, prelude, fugue, symphonic poem, rhapsody and other traditional methods, which often add space. Romantic music is near and at the same time it has not been without the influence of Iranian music. About twenty symphonies of his works have been recorded and published so far, which is the most numerous among the works of Iranian composers, which is why he ...

#12289

Dan Shore

#183185

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Dan Shore is an American composer and playwright from Allentown, Pennsylvania, whose works include The Beautiful Bridegroom, An Embarrassing Position, Travel, Works of Mercy, and Lady Orchid. Education Shore attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied composition with Lee Hyla, Malcolm Peyton, and Scott Wheeler. He spent four years as a composer and lyricist in the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and studied opera composition in Denmark on a Fulbright Program grant. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the Graduate Center of the City University of...

#12290

Alexandra Silber

#186927

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Alexandra Silber is an American actress, singer, writer and educator. She has performed roles on Broadway, in London's West End, on television and film, and concert stages. Among other stage roles, in London, she created the role of Laura Fairlie in The Woman in White , played Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof and Julie Jordan in Carousel . In New York, she appeared in Hello Again , Master Class , created the role of Sara Jane in Arlington and as Tzeitel in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof .

#12291

James Montgomery

#188174

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

James Louis Montgomery is a Canadian music composer, performer, and arts administrator. For about 20 years he was the artistic director of The Music Gallery. He is also a founding member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble with whom he performs and records. As a composer he is known for incorporating electronic technology into his works.

#12292

Jeremy Zerechak

#187911

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Jeremy Zerechak is an American documentary filmmaker. He has directed and produced two feature-length documentaries, Land of Confusion and Code 2600 . Background Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Zerechak joined the Army National Guard after high school so he could afford to attend film school. He was enrolled at Pennsylvania State University when his unit was deployed to Iraq in 2004. While serving in Iraq, Zerechak filmed his first feature-length documentary, Land of Confusion, which chronicles his unit's mission in Iraq and the operations of the Iraq Survey Group. Zerechak graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video Production.

#12293

Ohan Durian

#151227

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Ohan Durian or Duryan was an Armenian conductor and composer. Life and career Ohan Durian was born Hanna Khatchadurian in Jerusalem. From 1939 to 1945 he studied composition, conducting and organ at the Jerusalem Conservatory. He completed his education in Europe under the tutelage of Hermann Scherchen, Roger Désormière and Jean Martinon.

#12294

Karl Österreicher

#163710

Overall Influence

1923 - 1995 (72 years)

Karl Österreicher was an Austrian conductor and music teacher. Life Born in Rohrbach an der Gölsen, Lower Austria, Austrian studied clarinet as well as conducting with Hans Swarowsky, later also with Alfred Uhl and Clemens Krauss from 1946 at the then University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic clarinettist Leopold Wlach .

#12295

Michael Flade

#186731

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Michael Flade is a German composer. Life Born in Dessau, Flade was a pupil of Hans Jürgen Wenzel in the . From 1993 he studied musical composition with Jörg Herchet, music theory with Manfred Weiss as well as piano and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. With a DAAD scholarship he was in a master program at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he was taught by Nils Vigeland. From 1998 to 2001 he was a postgraduate student with Wilfried Krätzschmar in Dresden. He also studied musicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

#12296

Arif Sağ

#100982

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Arif Sağ is a Turkish singer, bağlama virtuoso, and leading figure in modern Turkish folk music. A former academic, he was also a member of the Turkish parliament from 1987 to 1991. Early years Arif Sağ was born to a miller at Dallı village of Aşkale district in Erzurum Province, eastern Turkey.

#12297

Takashi Furuya

#190771

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Takashi Furuya was a Japanese jazz saxophonist and vocalist. Biography Takashi Furuya was born in Tokyo on February 13, 1936. He played violin and clarinet in his youth, and picked up saxophone as a teenager. He played on American military bases in the 1950s and led his own bands starting in 1959. These ensembles had several names, including Takashi Furuya and the Freshmen, The Concord, Reunion, the Neighborhood Big Band, and Neo Sax Band. He accompanied visiting American musicians on tours of Japan, including Dizzy Gillespie, Mal Waldron, and Phil Woods. He has worked as a sideman for Gil Ev...

#12298

Marion Zarzeczna

#184197

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Marion Zarzeczna was an American concert pianist and educator. She was born and grew up in a non-musical family in Trenton, New Jersey. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1954 from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Mieczysław Horszowski.

#12299

Allan Blank

#189127

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Allan Blank was an American composer who has more than 60 published works. He attended the Juilliard School of Music and obtained a bachelor's degree from Washington Square College . He received a master's degree from the University of Minnesota and also studied at the University of Iowa. He was a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra . He taught composition at Western Illinois University , Paterson State Teachers College , Lehman College , and at Virginia Commonwealth University . In 1990 he was awarded a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts to commission his "Concerto ...

#12300

Sadhu Kokila

#182423

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Sahaya Sheelan Shadrach known by his screen name Sadhu Kokila, is an Indian musician, actor, comedian, film director and producer, and an occasional screenwriter and lyricist who works in Kannada cinema. He began his career as a composer before taking to acting in films, appearing mostly in comic roles. He has also directed ten Kannada films, the most notable one being Raktha Kanneeru .

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