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         Beach Amy:     more books (101)
  1. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 by Adrienne Fried Block, 2000-02-03
  2. The Life and Music of Amy Beach: The First Woman Composer of America: Piano by Gail Smith, 1992-03-26
  3. Symphony in E-minor, Op. 32 (Gaelic) - Study score by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, 2003-12-30
  4. Virginia Beach (Then and Now) by Amy Hayes Castleberry, 2010-02-17
  5. Energy and Individuality in the Art of Anna Huntington, Sculptor, and Amy Beach by Myrna G. Eden, 1987-08-01
  6. Virginia Beach:Jewel Resort of the Atlantic(VA) (Images of America) by Amy Waters Yarsinske, 1998-02-01
  7. Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music by Jeanell Wise Brown, 1994-06-28
  8. Amy Beach Piano Music by Amy Beach, 2001-04-18
  9. MUSA 3/American 23, Amy Beach: Quartet for Strings (in One Movement), Opus 89 by Amy Beach, 2000
  10. Music for Piano Vol. Ii By Amy Marcy Beach. Arranged By Sylvia Glickman. For Piano. Standard Notation. by Amy Marcy Beach, 1997
  11. American 57, Amy Beach: The Canticle of the Sun by Amy Beach, 2006
  12. Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music: Biography, Documents, Style.: An article from: Notes by Adrienne Fried Block, 1996-03-01
  13. American 32, Amy Beach: The Sea Fairies, Opus 59 by Amy Beach, 1999
  14. A57P, Piano-Vocal Score (set of 1), Amy Beach: The Canticle of the Sun by Amy Beach, 2006

1. Amy Marcy Beach
Compilation of online sources.Category Arts Music Composers B Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney......Amy Marcy Beach (18671944). Compilation of online sources Amy Beach, journal bookreview; Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, (Mrs. HHA Beach), page by Women's Voices;
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/historical/beach.html

Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944)
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See also:
Other historical women composer links:

2. Miscellaneous Songs By Beach
List from recmusic.org of attributed works. Selected lieder include texts, some originally in English, Category Arts Music Composers B Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney......Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (18671944). Miscellaneous Songs (opus order;without opus first, alphabetic). A Song for Little May (EH Miller
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/beach.html
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Miscellaneous Songs (opus order; without opus first, alphabetic)
  • A Song for Little May (E. H. Miller)
  • April Dreams (K. W. Harding)
  • Birth (Knowles)
  • Clouds (F. D. Sherman)
  • Du sieh'st [fragment]
  • Evening song
  • If women will not be inclined
  • Mignonnette
  • On a hill
  • The Arrow and the Song (H. W. Longfellow)
  • The Deep Sea Pearl (E. M. Thomas)
  • The heart that melts
  • The Icicle Lesson
  • Time has wings and swiftly flies
  • Who has seen the wind?
  • op. 1.
    • no. 1. With violets (K. Vannah)
    • no. 3. Jeune fille et jeune fleur (F.R. Chateaubriand)
    • no. 4. Ariette
  • op. 2.
    • no. 1. Twilight (Beach)
    • no. 2. When far from her (Beach)
    • no. 3. Empress of Night (Beach)
  • op. 10. Songs of the Sea
    • no. 1. A Canadian Boat Song (T. Moore)
    • no. 2. The Night Sea (Spofford)
    • no. 3. Sea Song (Channing)
  • op. 11.
    • no. 1. Dark is the Night (Henley)
    • no. 2. The Western Wind (Henley)
    • no. 3. The Blackbird (Henley)
  • op. 12.
    • no. 1. Wilt thou be my dearie? (Burns)
    • no. 2. Ye banks and braes o' bonnie doon (Burns)
    • no. 3. My luve is like a red, red rose (Burns)
  • op. 13.

3. AMY BEACH
Information about composer Amy Beach and her operas from usopera.com, the web's best reference site for American opera.
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Amy Marcy Cheney (Mrs. H. H. A.) Beach
Born: Amy Marcy Cheney, 5 September 1867, Henniker, NH
Died: 27 December 1944 (U.S. Opera Home Page)
Operas
  • Cabildo, chamber opera in 1 act. Libretto by Nan Bagby Stephens. (composed 1932; premiere 13 May 1995, Lincoln Center, NY)
Discography
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  • Cabildo. Great Performers at Lincoln Center, 1995.
    Compact disc: Delos DE 3170.
last update: 3 Dec. 2002

4. Klassika: Amy Beach
Amy Beach (18671944) Die Auflistung der Werke von Amy Beach ist noch nicht vollständig und wird nach und nach durch die Autoren von Klassika ergänzt. Letzte Änderung am 7.11.2001
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Amy Beach (1867-1944)
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Klaviersonate Klaviertrio Streichquartett
Klaviersonate
Klaviersonate op. 34
Klaviertrio
Klaviertrio op. 150
Streichquartett
Streichquartett op. 89 Die Auflistung der Werke von Amy Beach ist noch nicht vollständig und wird nach und nach durch die Autoren von Klassika ergänzt. Wenn Sie in der obigen Tabelle auf oder klicken (falls vorhanden), werden Sie direkt zu einer CD resp. DVD Empfehlung für dieses Werk von Amy Beach geleitet. Sie können dann bequem im Online-Shop von jpc bestellen und bekommen Ihre Bestellung ab einem bestimmten Warenwert ohne weitere Versandkosten nach Hause geschickt. Letzte Änderung am 7.11.2001
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5. Amy Beach
Biography, career highlights, and information about selected works.Category Arts Music Composers B Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney......Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. HHA Beach) (18671944) was born in NewHampshire. Musically precocious, she sang improvised harmony
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach) (1867-1944) was born in New Hampshire. Musically precocious, she sang improvised harmony parts at age two, composed at age four, and began piano studies with her mother, Clara Imogene Marcy Cheney, at age six, giving her first public recitals at seven. In 1875 the Cheney family moved to Boston, where Amy studied piano, harmony, counterpoint, an composition. In 1885 she made her piano debut with the Boston Symphony. That smae year she married Dr. Henry beach, a socially prominent doctor, Harvard professor, and musical amateur. In accordance with his wishes, she limited her public appearances and concentrated on composition until after his death in 1910. In 1911 she traveled to Germany, where she toured as a virtuoso pianist, playing and accompanying her own works to critical acclaim. In 1914 she returned to the United States, where she maintained an active schedule of winter touring and summer composing for many years. Mrs. Beach compsed works in many genres, including a Mass, a symphony, a piano concerto, and works for chamber ensembles, piano, mixed chorus, and solo voice. Her thirty works for women's chorus, including several cantatas, are well-crafted in a romantic idiom, always with intelligent text setting. The Year's at the Spring was sung by the Bennett College Glee Club in 1934 and 1935, under the direction of Marylou Jackson.

6. BEACH Amy :Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary Of Composers
BEACH, Amy Marcy Cheney b Henniker, New Hampshire, 5 September 1867d New York, 27 December 1944, aged seventyseven. She made her
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BEACH, Amy Marcy Cheney
b Henniker, New Hampshire, 5 September 1867
d New York, 27 December 1944, aged seventy-seven

She made her debut as a pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1885. Her 'Gaelic' Symphony was the first symphony composed by an American woman. She concentrated on composition from her marriage in 1885 until her husband's death in 1910, then resumed her concert career.
Mass for chorus and orchestra
Festival Jubilate, for chorus and orchestra
Symphony'Gaelic'
Sonata for violin and piano
Piano Concerto
The Chambered Nautilus, for chorus and orchestra
Piano Quintet Variations for flute and string quartet The Canticle of the Sun, for chorus and orchestra Christ in the Universe, for chorus and orchestra Cabildo, opera Piano Trio Amy Beach wrote four other choral works, three other works for violin and piano, piano pieces and songs, and fifty unaccompanied choral pieces. Return to Index

7. Amy Marcy Beach
Biography and links, Classical Composers Database.Category Arts Music Composers B Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney...... days for today (19 March). Anniversaries for years 2003, 2004, 2005,2006, 2007, 2008. Amy Marcy Beach. If you have an electronic
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8. Beach Amy Marcy Cheney Abeshouse Adam Chriss Daniel Howard Jodi Polk Joanne Clas
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9. Amy Beach
Amy Beach. Born 5 September 1867, Henniker, New Hampshire. Died Amy Beachwas the first major woman composer from the United States. A
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Amy Beach Born 5 September 1867, Henniker, New Hampshire.
Died 27 December 1944, New York City. In the 25 years of her marriage until her husband's death in 1910, Beach tried to limit her public appearances to an annual piano recital and the premieres of her own works. Meanwhile she profited from her leisure to absorb the vast repertoire of the European late-Romantic period, putting what she had taught herself to work in compositions of ever increasing ambition and sophistication. This was the period of her best large-scale work: the Gaelic Symphony (1894), Violin Sonata (1896), and Piano Concerto (1899). The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the first performances of the symphony and, with Beach as piano soloist, the concerto. Quite apart from the intrinsic merit of the works, which is substantial, both premieres were historic for the annals of women in music. Works Orchestra
Gaelic Symphony in E Minor, op. 32 (1896)
Piano Concerto (1900) Chorus and Orchestra, Cantatas
Grand Mass, opus 5 (1892) Chamber Music
Violin Sonata in A Minor, op. 34 (1896)

10. Amy March Cheney Beach
AMY MARCY CHENEY BEACH (Mrs. HH A. Beach) Born September 5, 1867, Henniker,New Hampshire Died December 27, 1944, New York. In her own words
http://www.wwnorton.com/classical/composers/beach.htm
AMY MARCY CHENEY BEACH (Mrs. H.H. A. Beach) Born: September 5, 1867, Henniker, New Hampshire
Died: December 27, 1944, New York
In her own words...
    "The women composers of today have advanced in technique, resourcefulness, and force, and even the younger composers have achieved some effects which the great masters themselves would never have dared to attempt. The present composers are getting away more and more from the idea that they must cater to the popular taste, and in expressing their individual ideas, are giving us music of real worth and beauty."
American composer and pianist. She was the first significant female composer in America and one of the leading composers of the "New England School."
By all measures, young Amy Marcy Cheney was a true prodigy. At one year she knew forty songs, always singing them at the same pitch. By age two she could improvise a countermelody to any melody her mother sang, and at age four, she could not only read four-part hymns at sight, but wrote her first pieces in her head and then sat down and played them on the piano. She began piano study at age six with her mother, and then studied with the finest pianists in Boston. She made her debut at sixteen, and in 1885 played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
From this point on, her career was influenced greatly by society's views of women. It was suggested that her desire to study composition would best be served by independent study, in part in the belief that women composed based on feeling rather than intellect. When she married the physician and amateur musician Henry Harris Aubrey Beach in 1885, he asked that she limit her concertizing to a few performances a year. Because of this, she focused on composition. After his death in 1910, she resumed her concert career in Europe and in this country.

11. Mickey's Beach
Amy and Chris at Mickey's Beach November 3, 2000. After spending aday with Amy's family at her uncle's place in Pt. Reyes Station
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Mickey's Beach
November 3, 2002
After spending a day with Amy's family at her uncle's place in Pt. Reyes Station, we went to Mickey's Beach for some bouldering. It was definitely an "only in California" experience for methe guidebook had said there were "naked people" next to some of the boulders we'd be climbing on, and sure enough there were naked folks sunbathing and playing frisbee within a few feet of some of the boulder problems. After our first bouldering session, I borrowed a disc and we played for a while. At some point I said to myself "Well, when in Rome..." and shucked my shorts, and later joined the (barely) co-ed naked ultimate frisbee game. (Amy later pointed out that I was the obvious nude beach virgin, with my luminous white butt cheeks and nether regions...) We squeezed in a final bouldering session just before the beautiful ocean sunset.
Amy with hair a-flyin' on a fun boulder problem. The rock here had surprisingly high friction: the holds all looked like greasy slopers, but felt like positive crimps.
Amy again.

12. Amy Huisinga Artworks - Evening At The Beach
Amy Huisinga Evening at the Beach © Acrylic on Panel 18 x 22 .
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13. Amy Cheney Beach -- UMKC Miller Nichols Library: Special Collections Collection
Brief biography and information about the collection at the University of MissouriKansas City Miller Category Arts Music Composers B beach, amy Marcy Cheney...... Special Collections amy Cheney beach Collection. The amy Cheney beach Collectionincludes the oneact opera Cabildo, op. 149; The Chambered Nautilus, op.
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Amy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) was America's foremost composer of the Romantic period and a virtuoso concert pianist. A musical prodigy, Beach studied with Ernest Perabo, Carl Baermann, and Junius W. Hill. She began composing at age four and at seven made her first public appearance, playing some of her own waltzes. During 1884 and 1885 Beach performed 12 recitals, the most noteworthy occuring in March and April, 1885, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After marrying Dr. H.H.A Beach that same year she concentrated on composition until her husband's death in 1910, at which time she resumed her concert career. Beach toured in Europe as a pianist from 1911-1914. Amy Beach was best known for her songs, and two Browning settings, Ah, Love, but a Day and The Year's at the Spring , which achieved considerable popularity during her lifetime. The Amy Cheney Beach Collection includes the one-act opera Cabildo , op. 149;

14. Amy Beach And Her Chamber Music: Biography, Documents, Style
amy beach and Her Chamber Music Biography, Documents, Style a review by Juanita Karpf as published in the June 1995 issue of the IAWM Journal
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/articles/june95/beach.html
Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music: Biography, Documents, Style
a review by Juanita Karpf
as published in the June 1995 issue of the IAWM Journal
Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music: Biography, Documents, Style
by Jeanell Wise Brown, Tennessee Temple Universty, Chattanooga, Tennessee, published in 1994 by The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 52 Liberty Street, P.O. Box 4167, Metuchen, New Jersey 08840; (908) 548-8600; FAX: (908) 548-5767; ISBN 0-8108-1884-7 (hardback); 407 pp.
Published as No. 16 in the Scarecrow Press series, "Composers of North America," Jeanell Wise Brown's Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music is the sixth volume in the series to chronicle the life and works of a woman composer. Curiously, however, much of the material found in Brown's work is covered in an earlier study, No. 2 (1987): Energy and Individuality in the Art of Anna Huntington, Sculptor, and Amy Beach, Composer , by Myrna G. Eden. While none of us desires to slight Amy Beach's prodigious creative output and her undeniable influence on American music, why publish two full length studies on Beach in such a short period of time? Surely there are other women composers whose careers merit the attention of this series.
Numerous other problems mar Brown's work, and oversights and inaccuracies appear with regularity throughout her book. Writing about American composers active during the late 1800's, Brown states, "It may be said of the New England group, for example, that most of them studied extensively in Europe..."(20). To which members of the "New England group" does Brown refer? She never makes their identity known. Other seemingly significant figures also remain anonymous. Brown writes that Beach's "compositions were being introduced in major European cities by prominent singers and chamber music groups. As mentioned previously [40], for example, the Violin Sonata was successfully performed in Berlin with Teresa Carreño at the piano..." (47-48). Surely a performer of Carreño's reputation would have teamed up with other world-renowned musicians, yet we never learn the name of the violinist.

15. Beach, Amy
beach, amy beach, amy. Period Romantic. Born Thursday, September 5, 1867 inHenniker, NH. Died Wednesday, December 27, 1944 in New York, New York (USA).
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Beach, Amy
Beach, Amy
Period: Romantic
Born: Thursday, September 5, 1867 in Henniker, NH
Died: Wednesday, December 27, 1944 in New York, New York (USA)
Nation of Origin: United States
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Major Works:
Opera:
Cabildo
Other Information:
General Bibliography:
Blume, Friedrich, with M. D. Norton (Translator) and Herter Norton (Translator), Classic and Romantic Music; A Comprehensive Survey, Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629 Einstein, Alfred. Music in the Romantic Era, Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390 Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257 Links to essays at other sites: The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen Please note: These links will open in a new window.

16. University Of New Hampshire Library - Milne Special Collections And Archives - M
amy beach, personal correspondence, diaries and notebooks, music manuscripts, published scores, clippings, photographs, and ephemera performer and changed her professional name to amy beach. However, upon returning to the United States, beach once
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Text-Only Version MRS. H.H.A. BEACH (1867-1944)
Papers, 1835-1956 MC 51

Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note Series Listing
16 Boxes (5.33 cubic ft.)
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Multiple Accessions
Amy M. [Cheney] Beach, 1933
[inscribed to Agnes Ryan ACQUISITION
: The Beach Collection is comprised of several accessions, but consists primarily of donations from Walter S. Jenkins, David Buxbaum, and the Fuller Public Library, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. ACCESS : There are no restrictions on access to this collection. : Request for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Special Collections Librarian. The MacDowell Colony retains the rights to Beach's works. Those seeking to publish or reproduce these materials must receive written authorization from the MacDowell Association at: Edward MacDowell Association 163 East 81st Street New York, New York 10028 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Special Collections website at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

17. OUP USA: Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian
OUP Book amy beach, Passionate Victorian by Block, Adrienne Fried of the 1998 ASCAPDeems Taylor Award and Winner of the 1998 Irving Lowens Book Award. amy beach, Passionate Victorian
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Winner of the 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and Winner of the 1998 Irving Lowens Book Award Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 ADRIENNE FRIED BLOCK Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), the most widely performed composer of her generation, was the first American woman to succeed as a creator of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, given its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first work of its kind by an American woman to be performed by an American orchestra. Almost all of her more than 300 works were published soon after they were composed and performed, and today her music is finding new advocates and audiences for its energy, intensity, and sheer beauty. Yet, until now, no full-length critical biography of Beach's life or comprehensive critical overview of her music existed. This biography admirably fills that gap, fully examining the connections between Beach's life and work in light of social currents and dominant ideologies. "A consistently interesting biography of America's first notable female composer....Fascinating."

18. Amy Cheney Beach Collection Finding Aid
amy Cheney beach Collection Finding Aid. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Scope and ContentNote. The amy Cheney beach Collection is a relatively small collection.
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Biographical Sketch
Her development was watched closely by a circle in Boston society which included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Mason and Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach. Beach was a socially prominent physician who was a lecturer on anatomy at Harvard and also a well-schooled amateur singer and pianist. Amy Cheney and Dr. H.H.A. Beach were married in 1885. Following the expectations of Victorian society, Mrs. Beach curtailed her touring and spent her days at home composing. Many of her works were granted premières by major orchestras and some were also the result of commissions. These were the first occasions on which many musical organizations performed music by a female composer. It may also be remarked that her E-Minor Symphony, Op. 32 ("Gaelic") was the first composed by an American woman. Mrs. Beach left quite a legacy for American performers and composers who followed her and her life and influence created many remarkable "firsts" for women in music. Many of her works show the influence of American late Romantic composers such as Horatio Parker, Edward MacDowell, Arthur Foote and George Chadwick; but she also reflected the ideas of Brahms and Debussy. These influences are not absolutely direct, but subtle, for the majority of her compositions consist of her own idiomatic style (both delicate and elaborate) and her natural gift for melody. She was best known for her songs, her symphony and her piano pieces and was also recognized for her early contribution to the preservation, documentation and transcription of American birdsongs.

19. IHAS Composer
Neither the first nor the last American woman to write concert music, amy Beachretains a certain cachet as the first to achieve serious acclaim both in this
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AMY MARCY BEACH
B orn Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, NH. in 1867, Mrs. H.H. Beach, as she styled herself after her marriage to a prominent physician in 1885, became the first woman composer to achieve wide recognition in America. A child prodigy on the piano, she made her Boston concert debut at age sixteen. Within two years she had performed Chopin's F MINOR CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA with the Boston Symphony and had begun to tour widely as a soloist. After marriage to Dr. Beach, however, she curtailed her concertizing in favor of homemaking. It was during this period until her husband's death in 1910 that Mrs. Beach first began to compose. Her FESTIVAL JUBILATE, written for the dedication of the Women's Building at Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1892, won recognition for her as a serious composer in the Romantic genre. She followed this success with a GAELIC SYMPHONY, performed by the Boston Symphony in 1896, and her PIANO CONCERTO IN C-SHARP minor in 1899, which she herself premiered with the same orchestra. As a widow, Mrs. Beach resumed her concertizing in America and Germany and increased her compositional output. In addition to her piano music and large scale orchestral works, she created more than 150 songs, almost all in the grand, operatic, heart-on-sleeve vein of the late 19th century. Settings like AH, LOVE, BUT A DAY! and THE YEAR'S AT THE SPRING became staples of the early 20th century concert repertory.

20. Amy Marcy Beach
Profile of the life and music of this American composer describes her study methods and lists several of her compositions. Basically selftaught, amy beach learned counter-point by writing out fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier from memory,
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