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1 hour ago

Hande Yener and Madrigal Ignite the Music Scene with "Ego": A Captivating Berlin-Filmed Collaboration - KALTBLUT Magazine

The collaboration marries Yener's distinctive vocals with the punchy sound of Madrigal, resulting in a contemporary track that resonates with emotional complexity.
Berlin music
Music production
fromFast Company
1 day ago

The future of music is human-generated

The music industry's value is shifting from songs to the human connection behind performances as AI-generated music becomes abundant.
#music
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fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax

Ax and Ma share a deep friendship and musical connection, highlighted by their collaborative performances and humorous banter.
fromOpen Culture
6 days ago

Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today

Giuseppe Verdi donated all royalties from his operas to the construction and administration of a luxurious retreat for retired musicians, designed by architect Camillo Boito.
Renovation
fromBBC
6 days ago

More than the Score - David Bellion gets creative in Paris - BBC Sounds

David Bellion spent over a decade in top-flight football, playing for clubs like Manchester United and Sunderland, before becoming Red Star FC's creative director, focusing on brand development and cultural connections.
English Premier League
Music production
fromFast Company
1 day ago

I revived an 1820s sea shanty with AI, and it's a banger

Modern sea shanties, especially The Wellermen, have gained popularity through social media, blending historical roots with contemporary music trends.
NYC music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 week ago

Classical 2026: X Japan's Yoshiki playing 2 big shows in Los Angeles

Yoshiki returns to the U.S. for two concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall after his third cervical spine surgery.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Messiah album review Whelan takes Handel's oratorio back to its beginnings

The Irish Baroque Orchestra and their conductor Peter Whelan bring Messiah back to Dublin, the city of its 1742 premiere, attempting to recreate the version heard at its first performance.
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fromSPIN
2 days ago

Wendy Eisenberg Unplugs and Taps In - SPIN

Wendy Eisenberg's music blends introspective folk with experimental elements, showcasing a shift towards conventional instrumentation while maintaining an underlying weirdness.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Why Bach's music is indestructible, whether on the mandolin, modern piano or soundtracking murder

Bach's music dominates Easter performances, showcasing its emotional depth and resilience through various interpretations.
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

Sounds of Latin America: A Violin and Piano Journey

Pianist Dr. Gabriela Calderón and violinist Dr. Catalina Barraza celebrate the rich musical heritage of Latin America.
SF music
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Sinfonia of London/ Wilson/ Kantorow review pushing the limits of the well-oiled orchestral machine

Fast forward a few decades and John Wilson is still hand-picking musicians and still serving up performances so polished they leave critics scrabbling for superlatives. These days Wilson's main outfit is the Sinfonia of London, and he is as likely to be conducting the symphonic mainstream as showtunes.
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fromFuncheap
6 days ago

Jim Stopher Solo Piano Recital

Jim Stopher performs a one-night piano concert featuring Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt at COM's James Dunn Theatre.
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fromSPIN
2 weeks ago

Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart Go Beyond the Chamber - SPIN

An experimental string trio combines free-form improvisation with post-production manipulation to create conceptual chamber music that blends classical textures with ambient forms.
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fromSPIN
2 weeks ago

Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart Go Beyond the Chamber - SPIN

An experimental string trio combines free-form improvisation with post-production manipulation to create conceptual chamber music that blends classical textures with ambient forms.
fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
3 weeks ago

SJCO Strings in Sunnyvale | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly

The wildly talented Bérubé has played violin with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Death Cab for Cutie. From touring nationally with the Broadway musical Hamilton to touring the world, Bérubé is in search of new experiences and challenges.
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fromPitchfork
1 week ago

Nobody's Chosen: An Interview With Sideshow

Sideshow's album TIGRAY FUNK addresses societal issues through personal experiences and a unique musical fusion of G-funk and Ethiopian influences.
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

Play It Again, Claude

By the early 1900s, player pianos had evolved to more fully reproduce a human performance, including subtle dynamics like tempo changes and the introduction of a damper pedal. The human role went from deskilled to fully deprecated as electric motors replaced foot-powered bellows. With the Seeburg Lilliputian Model L, the only job left for humans who wanted to play the piano in the 1920s was to put in a coin.
History
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Music in Community Offers Light in Dark Times

In frightening times, it makes a huge difference not to feel alone. Creating art with others in community enhances agency and strengthens self. Creativity requires an open heart; love enhances hope and diminishes fear.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Lend your voice to something meaningful: March choral previews, part two * Oregon ArtsWatch

PLC announces the retirement of its Artistic Director, Mary McCarty, following 11 years of inspired leadership and artistic excellence.
Portland
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fromFuncheap
4 weeks ago

Golden Gate Park Band's Symphony in the Park: Solidarity with Ukraine

The Golden Gate Park Band presents its 144th season of free weekly Sunday concerts at 1 pm in Golden Gate Park, featuring 70-90 minute performances with culturally themed programs and guest performers.
fromLos Angeles Times
9 years ago

'Wolverine' composer Marco Beltrami goes traditional in Pacific Palisades

Built in 2000, the two-story house on a corner lot has plenty of curb appeal. A black-hued gable roof creates visual contrast against crisp white siding and shutters. A white picket fence wraps around the front of the property.
LA real estate
Berlin music
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Iranians and Israelis united through music

Berlin-based musicians from Israel and Iran are fostering cultural dialogue through music despite historical tensions.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 weeks ago

The effusion of difficult emotion: Newport Symphony performs Higdon, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky * Oregon ArtsWatch

Newport Symphony Orchestra's final season concert features Shakespeare-inspired music performed March 21-22 with poet Frank Oden and works by Nicolai, Korngold, Verdi, Kellogg, and Bernstein.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Flattery or forgery? Row erupts over Vienna Phil's re-orchestration of a Florence Price piece

Wolfgang Dorner's orchestration of Florence Price's Rainbow Waltz at the Vienna Philharmonic's 2026 New Year's Day Concert is a forgery that removes Price's distinctive harmonies and musical identity, replacing them with generic Viennese pastiche.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

The stone of winter rolled away: March choral previews, part one * Oregon ArtsWatch

Alexander Lingas concludes 35 years as Music Director of Cappella Romana, transitioning to Music Director Emeritus to focus on scholarship and theological education while the choir searches for his successor.
Berlin music
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 weeks ago

The silent common thread: Clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson discusses his discovery of the lost Loeffler "Octet" * Oregon ArtsWatch

Graeme Steele Johnson discovered a lost 19th-century octet by Charles Martin Loeffler in the Library of Congress archives and spent years editing the manuscript to make it performable for modern audiences.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Add to playlist: the cliche-correcting medieval music of Idrisi Ensemble and the week's best new tracks

Idrisi Ensemble reinterprets medieval Corsican and Occitan music for mixed voices, emphasizing raw emotional expression and political solidarity rather than historical authenticity.
#classical-music
SF music
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Symphony San Jose paints 'Enigmatic' musical portrait

Symphony San Jose presents three historically significant classical works—Handel's coronation anthem, Vaughan Williams' peace composition, and Elgar's enigmatic variations—in March performances at the California Theatre.
SF music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Symphony San Jose paints Enigmatic' musical portrait

Symphony San Jose presents three historically significant classical works—Handel's Zadok the Priest, Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, and Elgar's Enigma Variations—in the Enigmatic Voice program on March 7-8.
Berlin music
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

California Symphony: Northern Lights

California Symphony's March concerts feature contemplative music by Northern and Eastern European composers, including works by Silvestrov, Pärt, and Sibelius, with a casual concert experience including pre-concert talks and refreshments.
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

How Yuval Sharon and Es Devlin are using cutting-edge tech to push opera forward-just when it needs it most

People all saw that there is something new is being attempted here that you've just got to see. I think that is its own reward. In an era where New York's storied Met Opera has faced layoffs, pay cuts, postponed productions, and a controversial financial agreement with Saudi Arabia, forward-thinking artistic direction becomes essential for survival.
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fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

POV: Ballet and opera institutions need to get radical to stay relevant

Opera and ballet remain deeply embedded in contemporary culture, with the barrier to engagement being perception and institutional presentation rather than the art forms themselves.
Berlin music
fromGothamist
3 weeks ago

Mozart's childhood violin and original manuscripts come to the Morgan Library

Mozart's personal belongings, including the clavichord used to compose 'The Magic Flute' and his childhood violin, are exhibited at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan for the first time in the United States.
Business
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Why the best problem-solvers think like jazz musicians

Organizations that toggle between wonder (imagination) and rigor (discipline) generate novel value and shape disruption better than those relying solely on technical systems.
Berlin music
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

"The Three B's" Bach, Beethoven, Brahms

A chorale performs classical German compositions by Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms with orchestra and soloists at two Bay Area churches on March 21-22.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on the formidable Gyorgy Kurtag at 100

I was immediately struck by his magnetic intensity, his fierce passion for music and his unique way of speaking English—punctuated by frequent utterances of er-er-er. Many years later, Kurtag was to tell me: 'Stuttering is my natural mode of expression.' He and Marta simply embodied—he still embodies—music. I had never met anyone to whom each note mattered so much.
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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How Music Enhances Our Brains and Our Lives

Music training strengthens brain rhythms and learning increases synthesis of proteins necessary for memory, supporting neuroplasticity and resilience against age-related decline.
LGBT
fromQueerty
2 months ago

What's the best concert you've ever attended & why? - Queerty

Queer concert experiences with beloved pop icons create powerful, lasting memories and people are invited to share their favorite concert stories.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Jennifer Wright's 'Echolocations': Making music and the instruments, too * Oregon ArtsWatch

On January 17 Jennifer Wright gave a stellar performance of her compositions for her self-crafted instruments. This performance marked the conclusion of a month-long exhibition of her instruments and sound sculptures in the galleria of PLACE in Northwest Portland. This is the performance where she said she "finally had a chance to let all the parts of me out to play."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Elisabeth Leonskaja review piano legend's unerring sense of architecture reveals connections and kinships

The Austrian pianist's expressive, emotional playing may grab the headlines, but it's the unerring sense of underlying architecture that's the thread through her long career. We heard that here, not just within each of the works, but in the shared foundations, and sometimes secret connecting passages, she revealed between them.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Nemanja Radulovic: Prokofiev album review thrills and spills from a fearless violin virtuoso

Radulovic plunges in, his audacious attack and intonational high-wire act almost upsetting the applecart in the oompah-pah finale. The same fearless commitment pays dividends elsewhere: in the jaunty Heifetz arrangement of the Gavotte from the Classical Symphony, for example, or in the spiky march from The Love for Three Oranges.
Berlin music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Philip Glass yanks symphony world premiere from Kennedy Center lineup

Glass joined a growing list of performers and artists who have canceled shows and cut ties with the arts center since President Trump replaced its board with people who share his aversion to woke programming, and affixed his name to the facade without congressional or Kennedy family approval. The new board also named Trump as chairman, and, in an unprecedented move, the president hosted this year's Kennedy Center Honors, which garnered its lowest ratings ever when broadcast on CBS. Ticket sales have also tanked.
US politics
Arts
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

8 signs you appreciate art, music, and culture on a deeper level than most people - Silicon Canals

Some people experience art deeply, reacting emotionally and perceiving subtle artistic cues that reveal heightened sensitivity and meaningful connections to creative expression.
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fromNature
1 month ago

Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail

Music continues to unite people globally and remains central to debates about universality, human uniqueness, and responses to AI-driven inhumanity.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi review big, generous, provocative music-making on a small stage

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi created an eclectic voice-and-piano recital blending folk, opera, jazz, pop and classical, reinterpreting diverse songs with emotional intensity.
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fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

Review of Colomboscope 'Rhythm Alliances' | Berlin Art Link

Colomboscope's 'Rhythm Alliances' used cultural diplomacy and a Berlin–Colombo network to convene 50 South Asian artists, fostering fragile creative alliances and collective resistance.
Music
fromThesanjoseblog
1 month ago

Symphony San Jose Presents The Enigmatic Voice in Downtown San Jose

Symphony San Jose presents The Enigmatic Voice featuring Handel's Zadok the Priest, Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, and Elgar's Enigma Variations at California Theatre.
SF music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Slain trumpeter united East Bay's music-loving community, friends say

Anthony Anderson organized and led improvised East Bay jam sessions, uniting musicians and promoting careers while performing funk, jazz, R&B and soul.
fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
1 month ago

Poiesis Quartet at Stanford | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly

Formed at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the group blends technical precision with expressive range, moving comfortably between classical staples and contemporary compositions. Their programs often highlight contrast, pairing the clarity and balance of Haydn with modern textures that stretch tone and color.
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fromTNW | Music
2 months ago

Can AI replace the humanity of Classical Music?

AI can analyze compositional style and complete unfinished works, prompting questions about whether technology can replicate human sensitivity and emotional interpretation in classical music.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Know the score? I don't read music, but that's no hindrance to reimagining great classical works

I'm a harmonica and accordion player and one half of folk-classical duo Stevens & Pound. As a multi-instrumentalist I am rooted in a folk tradition that is oral, aural and communal. Music and song are passed down by ear, either through recordings or more fun traditional music sessions. Here, players and singers get together to share, swap and play tunes, drawing from a repertoire that is always evolving.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Like a prayer: Bassist Edgar Meyer's trio with violinist Tessa Lark and cellist Joshua Roman * Oregon ArtsWatch

Edgar Meyer, with Tessa Lark and Joshua Roman, performed a sold-out chamber concert blending Bach, Appalachian influences and adventurous repertoire that pushed his musical boundaries.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Cappella Romana founder Alexander Lingas passes the torch * Oregon ArtsWatch

A graduate student organized a benefit concert of diverse sacred and early music to raise funds for rebuilding San Francisco's damaged Greek Orthodox cathedral.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Max Richter: the composer who crosses the invisible divide between high' and low' music

Max Richter's celebrated composition 'On the Nature of Daylight' and his Hamnet score have driven major recognition, awards attention, and wide cultural ubiquity.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Blurring the lines: FearNoMusic's "Looking Inward, Spacing Out" * Oregon ArtsWatch

FearNoMusic presents Looking Inward, Spacing Out: a spatialized concert in Reed College's PAB atrium featuring works by Brant, Ives, Tiensuu, Oliveros, Nystedt and Reed choirs.
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fromwww.orartswatch.org
2 months ago

Happy Giancarlo: A conversation with Maestro Castro D'Addona Oregon ArtsWatch

Giancarlo Castro D'Addona is a Venezuelan-born, El Sistema-trained composer and former trumpeter who composes works for major youth and professional ensembles in Oregon.
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

Despite All Odds, Beirut's Jazz Scene Persists

I noticed the swelling of the double bass first, quickly followed by the fluttering of brushed cymbals. A saxophone pushing against the edges of a melody swiftly married the notes together, chords drifting haphazardly before reaching a slow, pulsing groove. The jazz quartet performed in front of a liquor cabinet lined with whisky bottles; low-hanging lights teetered overhead, throwing shapes on the monochromatic marble-tiled floor. Outside, a leafy veranda was filled with diners, the music drifting through flung-open doors and windows.
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fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Watch All of Vivaldi's Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments

Upon its debut in 1725, The Four Sea­sons stunned lis­ten­ers by telling a sto­ry with­out the help of a human voice. Vival­di drew on four exist­ing son­nets (pos­si­bly of his own prove­nance), using strings to paint a nar­ra­tive filled with spring thun­der­storms, summer's swel­ter, autum­nal hunts and har­vests, and the icy winds of win­ter. The com­pos­er stud­ded his score with pre­cise­ly placed lines from the son­nets, to con­vey his expec­ta­tions that the musi­cians would use their instru­ments to son­i­cal­ly embody the expe­ri­ences being described.
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fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Engage Actively With Music to Reap Its Greatest Benefits

The ukulele is an accessible, increasingly popular instrument that people of nearly any age and skill level can learn and play in local clubs.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Havergal Brian: The Gothic album review Ole Schmidt tames a vast, eccentric score

Ole Schmidt's 1980 BBC performance of Havergal Brian's The Gothic delivers a bold, conductor-driven interpretation with vast forces, occasional congestion, and a standout soprano.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Pianist Edward Simon's latest work is a journey to Venezuelan homeland

Edward Simon was in his mid-teens when he left his home in Punta Cardon, Venezuela, for good and settled in the United States, driven by his desire to learn about jazz at the source. His quest has taken him to breathtaking creative heights with achievements visible both at home, where the Emeryville pianist and composer is the longest serving member of the SFJAZZ Collective, and abroad, via regular tours throughout Europe.
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fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Free Piano Concert: Bach to Jazz (Oakland)

Mira T. Sundara Rajan performs piano works by Bach, Brahms, Scriabin, and Ginastera that bridge classical tradition and jazz on a Bay Area concert grand.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

LPO/Jurowski review Mahler's 10th is full of colour, and the composer's pain, in Barshai's completion

Barshai's colourful completion of Mahler's Tenth, conducted by Jurowski, delivers bold orchestration and vivid playing that contrasts Cooke's restrained version.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Glimmers of light: Oregon Symphony concertmaster Sarah Kwak and guest conductor Markus Stenz tackle Alban Berg's difficult "Violin Concerto" * Oregon ArtsWatch

Markus Stenz led the Oregon Symphony in an outstanding concert featuring Sarah Kwak's superb performance of Berg's Violin Concerto and renditions of Boulanger and Beethoven.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Glimmers of light: Oregon Symphony concertmaster Sarah Kwak and guest conductor Markus Stenz tackle Alban Berg's difficult "Violin Concerto" * Oregon ArtsWatch

Markus Stenz led the Oregon Symphony in an outstanding concert featuring Sarah Kwak's superb performance of Berg's Violin Concerto and expressive Boulanger and Beethoven interpretations.
Music
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Helmuth Rilling, longtime leader of the Oregon Bach Festival, dies at age 92 * Oregon ArtsWatch

Helmuth Rilling, renowned interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach and co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival, died Feb. 11, 2026, in Leonberg at age 92.
fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider loves music so much, she might just eat it

Any composer's relationship to music is intense, but Sarah Kirkland Snider, whose debut opera, Hildegard, receives its world premiere at the LA Opera this week, ratchets that intensity up to a higher, more metaphysical level. When Snider hears music, she says, she sometimes wants to eat it that's how deep the desire goes. She's not traditionally religious, but she has come to see music as a mysterious, divine force within her.
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fromianVisits
1 month ago

Unfinished Mozart manuscript going on display in Mayfair museum

The sheet is modest in size but immense in significance. Carefully inked across the page are the opening 20 bars of a fugue - not Mozart's own invention, but his transcription of a harpsichord work by George Frideric Handel, composed more than sixty years earlier. Mozart was 26 when he set to work on it in 1782-83, transforming Handel's keyboard fugue into the beginnings of a string quartet arrangement.
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