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Found in the Rain

Found in the Rain is a recording of twelve songs without words, composed by clarinettist Helen Habershon. Helen is passionate about composing and this recording, her first release, finds her collaborating with world-renowned pianist John Lenehan. Helen herself comments: "When I write, the pieces often seem to unfold, like a story teller telling a tale. Each note seems to find it's place and flow quite naturally into a predestined tapestry. I feel that nature holds many, if not all, the answers and most of my pieces in this group reflect this in some way." An acclaimed performer, The Daily Telegraph, noted her "stylish and technically assured account..... immediately established a rapport with the audience" The New York Times stated that "Helen and her twin sister Cathrine (The Saunders Twins) played the work's solo lines with compelling unity of purpose" Helen Habershon (née Saunders) studied at the Royal College of Music with Sidney Fell and Gervase de Peyer and at the age of 22 was appointed Principle Clarinet of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. She has gone on to enjoy an international career giving recitals in leading concert venues at home and abroad and appearing on Radio and TV. ?More recently Helen, with her twin sister Cathrine, has performed a double concerto with the New York Chamber Symphony Orchestra under Gerard Schwarz in the Lincoln Centre receiving much acclaim in the New York Times. .Alongside her clarinet playing, Helen has always had a passion for composing music and this recording includes twelve of her short piano works composed between 2004 and 2009. Helen lives in Somerset with her family and has drawn her inspiration from the sea, the moors and the countryside of South West England. ? John Lenehan Praised by the New York Times for his 'great flair and virtuosity' and the London Times for 'a masterly recital', John Lenehan's performances and recordings as soloist and accompanist have been acclaimed throughout the world. In a performing career spanning more than twenty-five years, he has collaborated with many leading instrumentalists and is recognised as one of the leading accompanists and chamber musicians of today. John has made more than sixty CDs - most recently three discs for Sony of minimalist piano works and John Ireland's piano music (the third volume of a complete edition on Naxos). Other solo recordings include a disc of Erik Satie and a Gramophone award-winning recording for Naxos (with the Ulster Orchestra) of Michael Nyman's Piano Concerto. Recent performances have included Mozart and Shostakovich concerti with the renowned Sinfonia Varsovia at the Evian Festival and Beethoven with the Symphony Orchestra of India in Mumbai. Two other recordings have been released in 2009 - sonata discs with Emma Johnson (Naxos) and Tasmin Little (BIS).

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Jonathan Newell-Pianist/Composer

Jonathan Newell holds a BA from Ithaca College in Piano Performance and Art History and an MA (summa cum laude) in Piano Performance and an MA (summa cum laude) in Composition from Hunter College. He is a member of the piano faculty of the Diller-Quaile School of Music in Manhattan and the State University of New York (Adirondack) and is a pianist and composer with The Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater. Mr. Newell gave his New York debut in 2009 at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and was recognized as a Who's Who Among America's Teachers for 2006-2007. He performs as much as 150 times a year throughout the northeastern US as a pianist or as a pop/guitarist and singer. He is a former string bassist with the Glens Falls Symphony. He is a 2002 recipient of an individual artist grant from the New York State Council for the Arts. He has studied piano with Edward Housman at Skidmore College, Phiroze Mehta at Ithaca College, Steven Graff at Hunter College and Dr. Julie Jordan at the Juilliard School and has performed in master classes with Andre-Michel Schub, Paul Badura-Skoda and Mordeci Shehori. He studied composition with Shafer Mahoney. "In the showpiece of the afternoon, Liszt's Sonata in B minor, Newell ranged easily over chromatic scales and arpeggios, thunderous chords and dramatically hushed intervals, enhanced by excellent pedal work." Jean Swain, The Rutland Herald (Vermont, USA) September 1988 "...much of the success of the (Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater) concert is directly attributable to the superb accompanist Jonathan Newell. Newell, an excellent pianist, infused the music with spirit and clarity. His new 'Celebration (Signs of Life)' is a bold firecracker of a piece - a blistering explosion of cascading sound." Janet Loudon, The Glens Falls Post Star (Glens Falls, NY, USA) May 2002 "I found myself smiling with delight at the 'Two Folk Songs'. They are really attractive. His Bach (Tocatta in D Major, BWV 912) had just the right seasoning of personal romanticism. All in all this CD is a find." Esther Barrett-Ayres, Aberdeen, Scotland, May 2009.

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Aurora Arias

What is in a name? Why did I choose Aurora Arias as my title? Aurora is the goddess of the Dawn..and dawn is about rebirth...and for me...it was a rebirth. Many of friends and fans have told me over the years that I needed to create an album that captured my voice. They (flattered me) said that my voice was second to none, and that there was no good recording of if...but first, I had to tend to my other gift..my son, Christopher who has autism... all I can say is that the heavens aligned, and the universe supplied me with a super resource for my inspiration, and that in the process... I shifted... I realized that for whatever reason, I was given another gift..and now was the time to record it...so I did NOT want to just do an easy album..NO! It was do or die! Pick the hardest songs to sing for an Soprano voice..and pour your heart and soul into it..so that is what I did...with the help of Kickstarter and my accompanist, the accomplished Johan Botes...I made this album..with love and passion. I hope it brings you joy and pleasure. Finally, the Dawn has come... Love and Light...Acapelladiva. Oh..yes, if you want to right me you can email me at julie@acapelladiva.com or send me snail mail at: Acapelladiva PO Box 301403 Austin, Texas 78703 Of course...I am on Facebook (Acapelladiva or Julie Brown Opera Soprano), and Twitter (@acapelladiva) and you visit my website at www.acapelladiva.com. Ciao!

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Vox Balaenae

VOX BALAENAE The musical project: The spells generated from the Sea are really multiple: the scents of the waves, the colours of the sea bottom, the rainbows created by the waves, the voices of the marine animals and so on. The miracles of nature have always fascinated man: poets, writers, painters, sculptors have all tried, in their own arts, to recall and reproduce the majesty of the sea. Yet the musician has always made more than the other artists: through the ethereal language of music he has often tried to ravish and imitate the voice of the sea. Games of sounds, cries and voices have been reproduced in an evocative musical journey entitled Vox Balaenae: the listener is driven into a surreal and suggestive world in which all kinds of musical expressions are melted in a unique performance following a complex process of interaction. Vox Balaenae opens a new frontier in the world of contemporary art, breaking with the traditional representative patterns: a journey in which acoustic and electronic vibrations are melted and impressed on the disc to be infinitely reproduced for people living thousands of kilometers far from the charming places of the Sorrentine Coastline, the very place where live recordings have been made in suggestive grottos and gorges. In the Vox Balaenae universe listening, feeling and meditating change into a symphony of the senses where innovation and creativity are interwoven in a continuous dialogue among modern concepts, knowledge and techniques. In other words there is the transposition of the traditional live concert into a "sensorial disc". Vox Balaenae, a project wholly planned and cured by Alessandro Crosta and Nadia Testa, borrows it's title from the homonymous aquatic and evocative work composed in 1971 by George Crumb, an American composer now considered one of the best representatives of the musique d'avanguard. Inspired to a recording of the voices of whales, the first track imitates and transfigures the sounds of nature, which are musically ri-elaborated. The American composer, still living, has wisely reproduced the voice of the whale and all the sounds of the sea and it's creatures (such as dolphins, gulls and so on) by using classical instruments (such as the piano, the flute, the cello and the crotales) in an experimental way thanks to it's innovative techniques of amplification and technical exploration. Among the following tracks there are Vermont Counterpoint by S. Reich, and some reproductions of marine sounds lively recorded by Alessandro Crosta ad Nadia Testa. The musical journey starts from contemporary music to go back to the beginning of the XXth century with Debussy, whose music is proposed in a modernized polyphonic version: "The future as a mirror of the past". Tracks are preceded by the listening of natural samples recorded on the sea of Sorrento (natural set of the disc) which, insinuating in each gorge, succeeds in emanating voices of an uncontaminated nature, unique in the world. The Artists: Alessandro Crosta, Flutist Alessandro Crosta, polyflutist and composer, is a young Italian versatile and innovative musician. His repertoire goes from the traditional literature for flute to the contemporary music as well as the electronic one. In his performances he exhibits in a vast range of roles: he has played as a soloist flute with a lot of European Orchestras (Orchestra dei Professori del Teatro S. Carlo - Napoli, Orchestra Arcenciel - Zurich, Minsk Orchestra - Belarus, Plovdiv Orchestra - Bulgaria, Orchestra Craiova - Romania), he has toured with the Italian pianist Nadia Testa as well as with the Belgian "Le Vraie Note Trio", and he has worked with several composers like Roland Moser (Switzerland), Wolfgang Rhim (Germany) and Arnoldo Antunas (Brazil). He has been on concert tours to Italy, the USA, Israel, Spain, France, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, Brazil, Morocco, Malta, Tunisia, Bahamas, Greece, Turkey, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Grenada, Ucraine, the UK, Argentina, Croatia, Uruguay, British Virgin Islands, Reunion, Denmark, Switzerland, Senegal, Cyprus, Libya, Tenerife, Funchal, Antigua and Barbados. Several CD recordings show his inclusive musical interests. As a flute-collector, he usually makes exhibition-concerts showing and playing his instruments (about 40 ca. Ancient and modern flutes from the XVIIth to the XXth century). Playing ancient flutes he succeeds in reproducing sound now forgotten, while playing modern flutes he is able to create new sounds and unexpected atmospheres. Nowadays he is composing a new kind of music with electroacoustic techniques applied to Flutes. He took the first degree with full marks at the 'D. Cimarosa' Conservatory of Avellino (Italy) with Nicola Caiazza and the master summa cum laude at IMP "G. Braga" of Teramo (Italy). After perfecting his technique with Conrad Klemm, he moved to Switzerland where in 2005 he took the 'Konzert Diplom' at the Musikhochschule of Winterthur-Zurich with Matthias Ziegler. As a concert flutist Alessandro Crosta has won about 21 musical competitions and scholarships and has made many recordings for the Italian television broadcast RAI. Since 2000 he has been the Artistic Director of 'Gli Anniversari della Musica International Festival" of Avellino (Italy). He has published several books such as "Bellini, Verdi e Cimarosa", "Muzio Clementi", "Sergej Prokofiev", "Antonin Dvorak", "Luigi Boccherini", "Mozart e Schumann", "Grieg, Leoncavallo, Pleyel e Sibelius", "Puccini e Casella" and the first volume of the "Quaderni musicali del flauto traverso" dedicated to the piéce of Albert Roussel "Joueur de flutes". Now he teaches flute at the Italian Secondary Music School. Nadia Testa, Pianist Born in Avellino, Nadia studied piano with Carlo Alessandro Lapegna and graduated with full marks and praise at the 'D. Cimarosa' Conservatory of Avellino in 1983. At the age of 18 she made her international debut with orchestra in Switzerland, where she played Mozart Concertos with the Symphonic Orchestra of Sannio. Then she specialized in piano with Vincenzo Vitale, Franco Medori e Carlo Bruno. Later Nadia won a scholarship to study as a soloist with Aldo Ciccolini at the Biella Music Academy, where she took the degree in 1987. At the same time she has been a finalist in several national and international Competitions. After studying as a lyric singer as well as Psychology at "La Sapienza" University of Rome, in 2005 Nadia received her degree in the discipline of Art, Music and Show Performance at the "Braga" IMP of Teramo (Italy) summa cum laude. As a soloist pianist she has made many concerts in Italy (Bologna, Torino, Bergamo, Milano, Messina, Firenze, Pisa, La Spezia, Udine, Salerno, Sorrento, Napoli, Aosta, Siracusa, and Caltanissetta) and abroad (Belgium, Switzerland, Israel, Egypt, Brasil, South Africa, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Malta, Greace, Argentina and Uruguay). She has been a founder member and the President of the "Associazione Igor Stravinsky of Avellino since 1997. As an accompanist pianist Nadia has partnered a wide range of soloists, both instrumentalists and singers. Since 1998 she has been playing in duo with the Italian flutist Alessandro Crosta, making performances in various international festival. Their international debut was at the A. Scarlatti Auditorium during the "Festival for Bach Celebrations" of Naples in 2000, since then the duo has been regularly invited to play in many countries of Europe, North Africa and the USA, and has performed throughout the UK to critical acclaim. Their repertoire goes from the XVIIth to the XXth century music, including the contemporary one. From 1998 to 2003 she accompanied the flutist Conrad Klemm during his Italian master classes and made several recordings for the Italian television broadcast RAI. In 2000 Nadia founded the flexible chamber group Stravinsky Ensemble (piano, flute, strings and singers), one of the most appreciated ensemble in Southern

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Narushchen Sunrise: Best Original Music from His Morning Ballet Classes

Listed on CD Baby's "Top Albums" list in 2008 & 2009 and favorably reviewed in past Dance Magazine issues, San Francisco Ballet pianist Jamie Narushchen unveils his new, 51-track ballet class CD of original music that is a must-have this fall! About Narushchen Sunrise: Best Original Music From His Morning Ballet Classes: Before he starts his day at SF Ballet, Jamie Narushchen rises early to play and improvise music for a morning ballet class at a nearby dance studio. Known for his vast harmonic vocabulary and punchy rhythms, it's no surprise that Narushchen produced another 51 tracks in less than a year. Whether it's exercises that roll on ragtime syncopation or harmonies that echo Ravel and Bill Evans, Narushchen Sunrise offers some of Jamie's most spirited improvisations that were captured live during the recording. Notes: Exercises are printed on the back of the case and on it's one-page CD insert. A Hamburg Steinway concert grand piano was used during the recording. EXERCISES: 1 Warm Up 3/4 96m 2 Plie 3/4 128m (both sides + more) 3 Slow Tendu 4/4 32m 4 Tendu 2/4 64m 5 Tendu w/Temps lie 3/4 64m 6 Quick Tendu 2/4 64m 7 Degage 2/4 64m + 32m (w/balance or stretch) 8 Fast Degage 6/8 32m 9 Rond de jambe a terre 3/4 64m 10 Fondu 2/4 64m 11 Tango 2/4 80m 12 Frappe 2/4 64m 13 Rond de jambe en l'air 3/4 48m (flat, releve) 14 Petit battement 2/4 64 15 Serre 4/8 32m 16 Battement en cloche 3/4 32m 17 Developpe 4/4 64m (both sides) 18 Grand battement 4/4 32m (both sides) 19 Port de bras 3/4 64m 20 Releve 2/4 80m Center 21 Adagio I 6/8 32m 22 Adagio II 3/4 64m 23 Center Tendu 4/4 32m 24 Balance 3/4 160m 25 Hungarian Dance ¾ 80m 26 Pirouettes (waltz) 96m 27 Pirouettes (march) 96m 28 Grand battement 3/4 64m 29 Polka 80m 30 Slow Mazurka 48m 31 Quick Mazurka 64m 32 Polonaise 32m 33 Port de bras 36m 3/4 34 Italian Fouette turns 3/4 64m 35 Center Fondu 3/4 32m 36 First jump 2/4 64m 37 Second jump 2/4 116m 38 Third jump 2/4 128m 39 Sissonne Ouvert 2/4 32m 40 Sissonne Ferme 6/8 32m 41 Big Waltz 3/4 160m 42 Galop 96m 43 Coda I 2/4 64m 44 Coda II 2/4 64m 45 Grand Allegro I 3/4 80m 46 Grand allegro II 3/4 164m 47 Maneges 128m 48 Hops on pointe 2/4 48m 49 Prep for turns on pointe 2/4 48m 50 Chaines turns 2/4 40m 51 Reverence 3/4 48m About The Musician: Jamie Narushchen was born and raised in Minneapolis and began studying piano with his grandmother at age six. He studied piano performance at Johns Hopkins' Peabody Conservatory, and he joined The San Francisco Ballet as an accompanist shortly after moving out west. His strong interest in improvisation led him to take additional coursework in composition at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Throughout his twenty-four years at SF Ballet, he has regularly provided accompaniment for the West Coast auditions held by The American Ballet Theatre, The Julliard School, The Boston Ballet and others. He also enjoys the opportunity to play for Mark Morris's and Suzanne Farrell's classes when they visit the Bay Area. When he's not playing the piano, he's usually at home playing with his kids.

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Musica Di Alcuni Giovani

Fausto Quintabà, piano "An outstanding pianist!" wrote the composer Joeseph Horovitz after listening to his "Sonatina" for clarinet and piano, that Fausto Quintabà had recorded in 2004, together with his clarinet player Ferdinand Steiner. Born in 1977, Fausto Quintabà received his first musical instruction from Marcello Biondolillo, at the conservatory "Vincenzo Bellini" in his native city of Palermo. Since his diploma cum laude, he has won numerous national and international competitions, among those - together with clarinet player Vittorio Buonomano - the "Lions European Competition-Salzburg". He attended the master classes of Aquiles Delle Vigne at the "Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum" and those of Milan Skampa (Prague), Andrea Nannoni (Florence) and Rocco Filippini (Accademia Stauffer at Cremona). In March 2007, he received his second diploma cum laude at the concert pianist class directed by Prof. Claudius Tanski, at the Mozarteum University at Salzburg. In 2005 and 2006, he performed at the openings of the "Salzburger Festspiele. A highly sought pianist of modern music, since then he has performed in Austria, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Belgium, France, Netherlands (Concertgebouw-Amsterdam) and Zimbabwe (Harare-HIFA 2009), and played world premières of works by Fabio Nieder, Azio Corghi, Helmut Jasbar, Norbert Zehm, Wolfgang Danzmayr, Klemens Vereno, Stefan-David Hummel and Alexander Müllenbach. Among others, he has worked with conductors such as Peter Wesenauer, Tito Ceccherini, Johnnes Kalitzke and David Danzmayr. Since September 2008, Fausto Quintabà has been accompanist at the "Tiroler Landeskonservatorium Innsbruck". Presently, he is preparing the publication of his first solo-recording, which presents contemporary works alongside Baroque masterpieces.

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Moving Emotions

Since 1997 Janet has performed her one woman song/piano shows extensively throughout the UK and on two world cruises. She plays and sings her own songs as well as those of the finest 20th/21st century songwriters. In her specialised voice coaching she works with recording and West End artists. Associate of the Royal College of Music (ARCM), Licentiate of Trinity College London (LTCL), Diploma in Education, Master Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Janet is also a composer, arranger and musical director. Trained as a classical pianist, singer and violinist, as a young child she was surrounded with sheet music which ranged from the popular musical to classical and opera. Aged 13 she was church organist and then studied under Michael Kruszynski, the Polish concert pianist. Her love of jazz, theatre and popular music show in her performances of Rhapsody in Blue and other Gershwin songs and piano music which have become paramount in her professional work. Piano Soloist: she performed extensively throughout Europe including London's Wigmore Hall, the South Bank, Barbican, the Alabama Halle and Amerika Haus in Munich. Piano Accompanist: she has toured the U.K. and Europe with international soloists of the Royal Opera House and E.N.O., including tours to Italy, France and Germany with the soprano Julia Migenes. She also accompanied many musical theatre artists at West End Gala performances. Musical Director: she has performed at a Royal Gala performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in opera quartet concerts and stage plays. VOCAL COACHING CLIENTS Janet Edwards' own unique method of teaching singing has become highly regarded by Major Record Companies and West End Producers - such as Trevor Nunn and Andrew Lloyd Webber - for her work with performers. Recording artists contracted to major labels include: Mel 'C' of the Spice Girls Vanessa Mae Boy George Asha Bhosle Caron Wheeler of Soul II Soul Kym Mazelle Zodiac Mindwarp Mark Shaw West End, Film Theatre and Television include: Maureen Lipman for Oklahoma, her one woman show and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Sarah Brightman for Phantom, concerts and recordings Michael Ball for Gilbert & Sullivan Les Dennis for Chicago & Me and My Girl Lead singers in Trevor Nunn's production of The Baker's Wife Liz Hurley and John Hurt for the film Aria Faye Dunaway for Pinter's Circe & Bravo Julie Walters, Richard Harris & Raoul Julia for The Threepenny Opera Stephanie Powers for recording demo, and the Royal Gala Sondheim Concert Drury Lane Nyree Dawn Porter for King & I in Australia Robert Meadmore Nicholas Colicos Natasha McElhone Doon Mackickan Sophie Ward Anthea Turner Karen Gillingham Amanda Holden Artists include: Many artists for Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom, Joseph, Grease, Fame, Buddy,and most other West End Shows Members of The Royal Opera House Covent Garden and English National Opera. Raimund Herincx for international operatic roles and recitals.

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Toscanini & Friends

Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was arguably the most renowned conductor of the 20th century. He began his musical career as a cellist and aspiring composer. Upon hearing the masterful music of Wagner, he decided to give up composing and devote his life to performing and conducting the works of other composers. In 1993 I embarked on a concert tour of Italy with Walfredo Toscanini, Arturo's grandson, and Walfredo's wife Elaine, an accomplished accompanist. Arturo Toscanini is absolutely revered in Italy. For each concert Walfredo would speak of his grandfather and his strong working relationships with specific Italian composers. Elaine would then accompany me in songs written by those composers. The concerts were received well and one was reviewed - 'Steven Marking with his striking stage presence, rich baritone voice, and impeccable diction captivated the Italians.' --Corriere della Sera, Milano I have done a great deal of performing with pianist/conductor Ian Hobson. When Ian asked me if there was a special project I would like to record, I told him about this concert tour and of the songs of Arturo Toscanini and his Italian contemporaries. Ian was unaware that Arturo Toscanini had composed music, so he was eager to see the songs. We recorded these beautiful songs in Foellinger Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the performing arts in Champagne Urbana, Illinois.

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Lighter Than Air

"Your CD is full of wonderful surprises. It feeds the soul, soothes the spirit. This CD is just a treasure- treasure it we will!!" 'We just finished listening to your CD for the second time (back to back). What beautiful music... I know that this will be a go to CD for many occasions.' "The CD is absolutely fabulous. I can't quite figure out the order I'll use in class, but I can't wait to play it tomorrow. You are wonderful, and I can't thank you enough for making the class so special.' Pianist Barbara Benn is a noted performer and educator throughout the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota, working as a teacher, soloist and accompanist with a wide array of artists, faculty members and arts organizations. Her recent CD of original piano music, "Lighter Than Air," includes a collaboration with her daughter, a cellist.

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Joy Deluxe Edition

ESTEE (AKA Shon Hubble) Bio Phenomenal Gospel music vocalist. Accomplished pianist and keyboard player. Prolific writer of hundreds of songs. Dynamic music arranger and producer. These are just a few phrases that describe Estee (AKA Shon Hubble), Gospel artist extraordinaire. She has had the honor of being the first female accompanist for the Grammy nominated Central State University Choir. She has also been blessed to have been awarded the Central State University's prestigious most outstanding first alto award and the outstanding performance in the music department award. Estee has a strong, crystal clear voice with an astounding range. She can go from tenor to soprano effortlessly. She also has 'perfect pitch' - an ability only one in 10,000 people possesses - which allows her to immediately recognize and play any musical note she hears. Estee's range in music styles is just as expansive. 'She's extremely gifted and she can sing any genre of music - jazz, R&B, rap, Gospel. All her vocals are top flight. You don't see that a lot,' said Terry Troutman, one of the original members of the R&B band Zapp. She's often been compared to Kim Burrell, India Arie and Cece Winans.

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