FUAIM Autumn 2013 - University College Cork

AUTUMN 2013
In a season of concerts, seminars and music projects, FUAIM brings
together artists, scholars and audiences to reflect and celebrate
the diversity and uniqueness of Music at UCC. Engaging with
diverse communities of sound, FUAIM amplifies the University’s
contribution to the rich cultural life of the city, region and country.
FUAIM at a glance
26 Sep Ryan Minor (lecture) 27 Sep Seán Ó Sé with Oliver Keane (concert)
04 Oct Iarla Ó Lionáird and Steve Cooney (concert)
10 Oct Julie Brown (lecture) 11 Oct RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet
with Olga Solovieva (concert)
17 Oct David Hughes (lecture) 18 Oct Black Umfolosi (concert) 23 Oct Tom Creed (perforum) 25 Oct POD (concert) 01 Nov Emer Mayock, Mick O’Brien and
Aoife Ní Bhriain / Tunes from
The Goodman Manuscripts (concert) 06 Nov Professor Luiz Fernando Ramos (perforum) 08 Nov Luka Bloom / FUAIM Goes to Town (concert)
15 Nov Calefax Reed Quintet (concert) 21 Nov Karen Power (lecture) 22 Nov RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet (concert)
27 Nov Professor Radena Vučetić (perforum) 28 Nov Thomas Buckner (lecture) 29 Nov Brian MacNamara and Keith Pascoe /
Changing Perspectives (concert)
05 Dec Eva McMullen (lecture) 06 Dec Lifesounds / FUAIM Music and
Community (concert)
Unless otherwise stated,
FUAIM events are open to
the public and admission to
concerts and lectures is free.
For more information on
FUAIM events, please see:
www.music.ucc.ie
FUAIM Team:
Mel Mercier
Paul O Donnell
Jeff Weeter
Grainne McHale
Sasha Dundjerovich
Carmel Daly
Maura O’Brien
Jason Shannon
Derek Foote
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Cover photo features
Iarla Ó Lionáird
Design: Gareth Jones
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The first concert in the FUAIM Autumn
2013 season features Sean Ó Sé, one
of Ireland’s best loved singers, and a
champion of Cork and Munster songs
for more than five decades. Best known
for his work with Seán Ó Riada and
Ceoltoirí Chualann, Seán will perform
some of the songs he made famous with
Ceoltoirí Chualann, as well as songs he
learned from his father.
Staying in the world of traditional
music, we are delighted to present a
concert featuring the internationally renowned singer, producer and
composer, Iarla Ó Lionáird. The first artist to be appointed to the position
of Traditional Artist in Residence at University College Cork, Iarla will
make his first public appearance in his new role at a lunchtime concert in
the Aula Maxima on Friday October 4th, when he will be joined by one of
his long-time musical collaborators, the virtuoso guitarist, Steve Cooney.
FUAIM: Music and Community is an initiative that aims to build capacity
for inclusive music making in Cork City through the development of
a range of community-based performing arts projects. As part of our
Autumn series we present Lifesounds, a public showcase of a the range of
unique music projects developed as part of the initiative since 2011.
With the passing, in September, of the piper, poet and writer, Tomás
Ó Canainn, the traditional arts community lost one of its most beloved
figures. Through his many musical achievements, his books and poetry,
and his close personal and professional relationship with Seán Ó Riada
and the Department of Music, Tomás made a significant contribution to
Irish traditional music and Music at UCC. In more recent years Tomás
was a generous supporter of FUAIM. At the many events he attended
he always made time to share his wisdom and wit, and warm words of
encouragement for student musicians. FUAIM Autumn 2013 is dedicated
to his memory. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.
Mel Mercier Head, School of Music and Theatre
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Seán Ó Sé with Oliver Keane /
Fri 27 September
One of Ireland’s best loved singers, and a champion of Cork and
Munster songs for more than five decades, Seán Ó Sé is best known
for his work with Seán Ó Riada and Ceoltoirí Chualann. Beginning
in 1962 with the recording of An Poc ar Buile (45 rpm ‘single’),
Seán featured on many of the ensemble’s subsequent landmark
Gael Linn recordings, including Ding Dong, Ceol na nUasal and Ó
Riada sa Gaiety. Through these albums, and many radio and concert
appearances, his rich tenor voice became one of the distinctive
soundmarks of the revival in Irish music in the 1960s and 70s.
In this concert, Seán sings some of the iconic songs from these
recordings, as well as songs he learned from his father, and from his
uncle, Muircheartach Ó Seaghdha, a sean nós singer from Beara. He
is accompanied on piano by Oliver Keane.
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free lunchtime concert
Iarla Ó Lionáird and
Steve Cooney / Fri 04 October
We are delighted to present the recently appointed Traditional Artist in
Residence, Iarla Ó Lionáird, in a concert which marks the beginning of
his one-year residency at UCC. Iarla is accompanied by his longtime
collaborator, the virtuoso traditional guitarist, Steve Cooney. Iarla
grew up and learned his craft in the musical heartland of Cúil Aodha
in the West Cork Gaeltacht. From his iconic early recording of the
vision song ‘Aisling Gheal’, through his ground-breaking recordings
and performances with the Afro-Celt Sound System, his collaborative
projects and his innovative fusion of the traditions of sean-nós with
modern electronic music, Iarla has established himself as one of
contemporary music’s most creative, exciting and ambitious artists.
As evidenced by the range of his current projects, including the
internationally acclaimed ensemble, The Gloaming, Iarla comes to UCC
at a time when his creative powers are in full flow.
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free lunchtime concert
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RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet
with Olga Solovieva (piano) /
Fri 11 October
In their first concert in the FUAIM Autumn 2013 season, the RTÉ
Vanbrugh Quartet is joined by acclaimed Russian pianist, Olga
Solovieva. Born in Moscow, Olga is the winner of many awards,
including the Boris Tchaikovsky Society Award (2010). As a soloist
and member of several chamber ensembles, Olga has performed
in Belgium, Germany, France, Lithuania, Brazil and Russia. Her
recordings of the music of Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, Lyadov and Galynin
have been critically acclaimed in the international music press.
John Field
Piano Quintet in Ab,
H.34 (single movement)
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor
1.Prelude: Lento
2. Fugue: Adagio
3. Scherzo: Allegretto
4. Intermezzo: Lento
5. Finale: Allegretto
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free LUNCHTIME concert
Black Umfolosi / Fri 18 October
Black Umfolosi, an acappela singing and traditional dance group
from Zimbabwe, was formed in 1982. The group’s repertoire, which
includes imbube music, gumboot dance and Zulu dance, is inspired by
the traditional songs and dances of their native southern Africa. The
group has toured extensively in the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia
and Asia, and has represented Zimbabwe at international events,
including Expo 1992 in Seville, Spain, and the 1994 Commonwealth
Games in Victoria, Canada. Their brilliantly choreographed concerts
are exuberant and engaging. Highlights include their trademark
harmonies, mixed with intricate rhythms, clicking and clapping.
1.10 pm Glucksman Gallery, Main Campus, UCC
Free LUNCHTIME concert
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POD / Fri 25 October
UCC lecturer, performer, and composer, Paul O Donnell, gets the
FUAIM audience into the swing for the Cork Jazz Festival with his
exciting group, POD. One of the highlights of FUAIM 2012, POD
returns with a stellar line-up of some of the most highly respected
musicians working in Ireland today. The group, featuring Oleg
Ponomarev (violin), Eamonn Cagney (percussion), Peter Erdei (bass),
Shane O’Donovan (drums) and Paul O Donnell (piano), is joined by
special guest, Cora Venus Lunny (violin). Well known as the primary
creative force behind the emergence of jazz and popular music studies
at UCC over the last two decades, Paul is an experienced and highly
respected performer and improviser in the jazz idiom. His original
compositions, which are often inspired by the natural landscapes of
Ireland, fuse elements of popular music, jazz, world music and Irish
music, to create a fresh soundscape of musical textures and grooves.
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free lunchtime concert
Emer Mayock, Mick O’Brien
and Aoife Ní Bhriain /
Fri 01 November
Tunes from The Goodman Manuscripts
Mick O’Brien (uilleann pipes/flute/whistle), Emer Mayock (flute/
whistle) and Aoife Ní Bhriain (fiddle) perform tunes collected by
Canon James Goodman in the mid 19th century in his native Munster.
The Goodman Manuscripts, which are held in the Library at Trinity
College Dublin, provide unique insights into the evolution of Irish
traditional music. They preserve much of the traditional music of
the south of Ireland as it was sung and played in the years before
traditional culture was devastated by the Great Famine. In this concert,
Mick, Emer and Aoife present original interpretations of music chosen
from the manuscripts, ranging from unusual versions of tunes in the
modern repertoire to those apparently unique to the collection.
1.10 pm Glucksman Gallery, Main Campus, UCC
Free LUNCHTIME concert
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Luka Bloom /
Fri 08 November
FUAIM goes to town
We are delighted to return to the beautiful setting of Triskel
Christchurch for this performance by one of Ireland’s most respected
contemporary folk artists, Luka Bloom. Luka has been bringing
his passionate stage performances and unique sound to Irish and
international audiences for more than four decades. Born into a
musical family in Co. Kildare, where he was surrounded by the
sounds of traditional music and song, he took to the stage for the
first time in 1969, to support his older brother, Christy Moore, on a
tour of English folk clubs. In 1987, as he embarked on a solo career in
America, he changed his name from Barry Moore to Luka Bloom. He
has produced twenty albums, including his first solo recording, Treaty
Stone, which was released on Mulligan Records in 1978, and on his
latest album, the critically acclaimed This New Morning, he continues
to create provocative, poetic music.
1.10 pm Triskel Christchurch
Free LUNCHTIME concert
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Calefax Reed Quintet /
Fri 15 November
The world-renowned reed quintet, Calefax, draws its repertoire from
eight centuries of music: early music to classical music, and jazz to
contemporary music. Established more than 25 years ago, the
Amsterdam-based ensemble has won a number of prestigious prizes,
released 17 critically acclaimed CDs, and can be heard frequently
throughout Europe, and in Russia, China, India, Turkey, Japan and the
USA. The ensemble has released 17 critically acclaimed CDs on the
German label, MDG, and on their own label, RIOJA Records.
Mayke Nas Entrez
Hans Abrahamsen Walden
Carola Bauckholt Zugvögel
Conlon Nancarrow 3 Studies for Player Piano: nr. 2, 18, 3c
Oliver Boekhoorn oboe
Var Berix clarinet
Raaf Hekkema saxophone
Jelte Althuis bass clarinet
Alban Wesly bassoon
presented in association with cork orchestral society
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free LUNCHTIME concert
Gregory Ellis violin
Keith Pascoe violin
Simon Aspell viola
Christopher Marwood cello
RTÉ Vanbrugh String
Quartet / Fri 22 November
In 1986, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet became the fourth ensemble to
hold the RTÉ string quartet residency in Cork. The members of the
quartet were appointed artists-in-residence to University College
Cork in 1991. Since that time, the quartet has nurtured, inspired and
supported countless young Irish musicians and has commissioned
and championed dozens of new works by Irish composers. In this
concert the quartet performs Winter’s Edge, by Irish composer Ian
Wilson, and marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
with a performance of his Quartet No. 2 in C.
Ian Wilson Winter’s Edge
Britten Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36
1.Allegro calmo senza rigore
2.Vivace
3.Chacony
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free LUNCHTIME concert
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Brian MacNamara and
Keith Pascoe / Fri 29 November
Changing Perspectives
Brian MacNamara (piano) and Keith Pascoe (violin) present
Changing Perspectives, an Arts Council-supported tour of Ireland
which sees the duo performing the complete sonatas for piano and
violin by Mozart and Beethoven. Keith studied violin, piano and
conducting at the Royal College of Music in London. His professional
career began in 1981 as a founder member and first leader of the
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and he has been a member of the RTÉ
Vanbrugh String Quartet since 1998. Brian was awarded a ‘premier
prix’ in piano at the Paris Conservatoire and a ‘laureate’ at the French
International Sonata Competition. He is a lecturer in music at CIT
Cork School of Music.
Mozart Sonata Kv 379 in G major
Beethoven Sonata Op 12 no 1 in D major
photograph: Con Kelleher
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free lunchtime concert
LIFESOUNDS / Fri 06 Dec
FUAIM Music and Community
Lifesounds showcases a range of music projects developed as part
of FUAIM Music and Community. FUAIM Music and Community
was established by UCC School of Music and Theatre in 2011, to
build capacity for inclusive music making in Cork City through the
development of collaborative, community-based performing arts
initiatives. FUAIM Music and Community is coordinated by UCC
PhD student, Gráinne McHale. Gráinne’s research explores the role of
assistive music technology in the development of musical creativity
and expression as part of inclusive community arts practices. She is
the recipient of a PhD scholarship from the College of Arts, Celtic
Studies and Social Sciences, UCC.
1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC
Free lunchtime concert
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Léachtaí/Lectures
Thursdays 11 am – 1 pm
Ó Riada Hall, Department of Music, Sunday’s Well Road
FUAIM lectures are open to the public and admission is free.
For more information, please see: www.music.ucc.ie
RYAN MINOR / 26 September
The Mastersongs of Nuremberg, or: What Spooked Hans Sachs?
Ryan Minor is Associate Professor of Music at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of Choral
Fantasies: Music, Festivity, and Nationhood in 19th-Century
Germany (Cambridge University Press), in addition to articles on
Wagner, the historiography of German musical nationalism, and,
in the most recent issue of JAMS, cosmopolitanism in early 20thcentury Germany. He is currently writing a book on the politics of
spectatorship in German opera. Minor serves as Co-Executive Editor
of The Opera Quarterly.
JULIE BROWN / 10 October
From textual palimpsest to silent film performance: critical
perspectives on recreating the musical presentation of The Epic of Everest (1924) Julie Brown is Reader in Music at Royal Holloway, University of
London. Among her publications are Bartók and the Grotesque
(Ashgate, 2007) and the edited collection Western Music and Race
(Cambridge, 2007), which was awarded the American Musicological
Society’s Ruth A. Solie Award 2008. She is also contributing editor,
with Annette Davison, of The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (Oxford
University Press, 2012), and her new monograph Schoenberg’s
Dissonant Redemption (probable title) is forthcoming with Cambridge
University Press. She is currently coordinating a recreation of the
original music for the silent film The Epic of Everest for a BFIproduced DVD of the film’s restoration and co-organising the
conference ‘Desert Island Discs and the Discographic Self ’ at the
British Academy (November 2013).
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DAVID HUGHES / 17 October
No nonsense: a comparative study of oral mnemonics in music
transmission worldwide
David Hughes taught music at SOAS (School of Oriental and
African Studies, U. London) from 1987–2008, and is now a Research
Associate. His main research areas are traditional Japanese music,
music of central Java, and comparative research on oral mnemonics
in the transmission of instrumental music worldwide. He received the
2011 Japan Society Award for ‘outstanding contributions to AngloJapanese relations and understanding’ for his activities in bringing
traditional Japanese music to a wide public. Major publications
include the books Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan (2008) and
the co-edited Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (2008).
David has lived for over ten years in Japan.
KAREN POWER / 21 November
cold play
Karen Power’s work utilizes acoustic instruments and everyday
sounds, spaces and soundscapes. Everyday environments and how
we hear everyday sounds lies at the heart of her practice. Karen is
interested in blurring the distinction between what most of us call
‘music’ and all other sound. She has found inspiration in the natural
world and continually utilizes our inherent familiarity with such
sounds as a means of engaging with audiences. Her compositions
challenge the listeners’ memory of hearing while simultaneously
shifting focus and presenting new contexts for such sounds.
Some current and upcoming projects include: Gorging Limpet, a
collaborative project using sound and experimental film; The Arctic
Circle residency program; a commission from UK pianist Andrew
Zolinsky; an exploration of the world of Radio with a new interactive
radio art composition; and a large-scale commission for Canadianbased string quartet, Quatour Bozzini.
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THOMAS BUCKNER / 28 November
My Circle of Friends in Electronic Music
For more than 40 years baritone Thomas Buckner has dedicated
himself to the world of new and improvised music. He has made
appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Herbst Theatre,
the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ostrava Days Festival, the Prague
Spring Festival, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Buckner is
featured on over 40 recordings, including 6 of his own solo albums. In
collaboration with a host of prominent composers and improvisers,
Buckner continues to commission and perform numerous chamber
works, orchestral pieces and song cycles, as well as improvisations,
electronic constructions, and multi-media theatre pieces. His lecture
at UCC will focus on the work he has done with distinguished
pioneers in the field of electronic music, including Robert Ashley,
David Wessel, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, and
Phil Niblock. EVA McMULLEN / 5 December
Hands On: Feel the Music
Hands On is a collaborative project developed by the Department of
Music and Disability Support Services at UCC. The project aims to
increase access to music for visually impaired students attending the
university. In this lecture Dr. Eva McMullan discusses the importance
of Braille Music Literacy and new technologies and teaching
methodologies that aid the teacher and learner as they create teaching
and learning environments conducive to visually impaired students.
Dr. Eva McMullan is a musicologist and research affiliate at the
Department of Music, UCC, where she lectures in contemporary
music. Eva works closely with Disability Support Services at UCC,
the National Centre for the Blind Ireland (NCBI) and ChildVision
(National Education Centre for the Blind) to make UCC one of the
most progressive Irish third-level institutions working with the blind
and visually-impaired. Eva also conducts the UCC Choir.
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Perforum
Performativity and Globalisation
Wednesdays 6 pm – 7.45 pm
Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch,
Tobin Street, Cork
Presented by the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies (UCC),
the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Theatre
and Performance Practices (UCC), and the Theatre Development
Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Cork.
Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.
Tom Creed (Cork Midsummer Festival) /
23 October
Performativity of festival culture: What next for festivals?
Tom Creed is a theatre and opera director and Festival Director
of Cork Midsummer Festival. He studied English and Philosophy
at UCC and was heavily involved with Dramat and the Granary
Theatre. He has been Associate Director at Rough Magic Theatre
Company, Theatre and Dance Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival,
and joint Artistic Director of Playgroup which he co-founded after
leaving UCC. His recent productions as a director include Shibari for
the Abbey Theatre (Dublin Theatre Festival), and the Gate Theatre’s
acclaimed production of Beckett’s Watt, with leading Beckett
interpreter Barry McGovern (Dublin Theatre Festival, Galway Arts
Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Perth International Festival,
Barbican Centre, Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre in
New York, and on tour in the USA.)
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Professor Luiz Fernando Ramos
(University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) / 6 November
I, Craig: Transcultural Adaptations and
New Receptions on The Mask
Luiz Fernando Ramos is Professor of Performing Arts, teaching
theatre history, theory and criticism, and Head of Graduate Studies
in the School of Scenic Arts, at the University of Sao Paulo. He has
worked as a theatre critic since 2008 for one of the biggest national
newspapers in Brazil, Folha de S. Paulo. He is a theatre practitioner,
working as a director, filmmaker, playwright and actor. His research
interests include the stage production of Gordon Craig, Samuel
Beckett, Tadeusz Kantor, José Celso Martinez Corrêa and Martins
Pena. He has completed a new manuscript on the practical and
theoretical concepts of “mimesis” and anti-theatricality, examining
the contemporary theatre scene, including productions that focus on
the theatrical in the fields of visual arts, music and cinema. With Dr.
Aleksandar Dundjeroviç he is a co-editor of the book Contemporary
Brazilian Theatre (2014).
Professor Radena Vuãetiç
(University of Belgrade, Serbia) / 27 November
Coca-Cola Socialism:
American/Global Trends in the Yugoslav 1960s
Professor Radena Vuãetiç teaches contemporary philosophy and
history at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, at the
University of Belgrade. She has published several monographs,
including: Coca-Cola Socialism. The Americanisation of Yugoslav
Popular Culture in the 1960s (2012), Europe on Kalemegdan. ‘Cvijeta
Zuzoriç’ and Belgrade Cultural Life 1918-1941 (2003), and numerous
book chapters and articles on Yugoslav history. Her research focuses
on Western cultural influences in Yugoslavia, Americanisation of
Yugoslavia, and Cold War culture.
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Graduate Studies in the
School of Music and Theatre
Postgraduate students join a thriving research culture in the
School of Music and Theatre. Committed to a diversity of scholarly
traditions and forms of creativity, including composition and performance,
our staff are internationally recognized for their innovative research.
Staff in Music apply a broad range of scholarly methods (including source
studies, ethnography, critical/cultural theory, interdisciplinary studies and
practice as research) to Western art music, traditional musics, non-Western
musics and music in mixed-media forms such as film and theatre.
Staff in Drama and Theatre Studies foster advanced critical inquiry into
interculturality, interdisciplinarity and intermediality, providing depth and
diversity to our postgraduate studies. Employing traditional research methods
or innovative practice-as-research approaches, postgraduate students take a
leading role in the Department’s active research culture.
Postgraduate Degrees in Music
The Department of Music offers the Higher Diploma in Arts (Music)
and three taught masters programmes: MA in Composition; MA in
Ethnomusicology; and MA in Music and Cultural History. Advanced
work may be undertaken for the research degrees of PhD, MRes or MPhil:
in composition or in scholarship (musicology or ethnomusicology). We
welcome proposals involving interdisciplinary research, practice as research,
or any of the specialisms of our academic staff.
For further information on graduate studies in Music at UCC, please see
www.music.ucc.ie/index.php?/postgrad/
Postgraduate Degrees in Drama and Theatre Studies
The Department of Drama and Theatre Studies offers the research degrees of
MRes (Masters by Research), MPhil and PhD. The Department is developing
several new postgraduate programmes, including a taught masters degree,
postgraduate diploma and postgraduate certificate.
For further information on graduate studies in Drama and Theatre Studies
at UCC, please see www.music.ucc.ie/drama/postgraduate/
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FUAIM Festival of Music
Celebrating 5 years of FUAIM Music at UCC
20–23 March, 2014
Presented in association with Cork Opera House
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fuaim n sound, noise
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