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| | The Duke Ellington Society - Billy Strayhorn - Biography |
 | | Strayhorn's own music is internationally known and honored. | | | Neither one was sure what Strayhorn's function in the band would be, but their musical talents had attracted each other. | | | By the end of the year Strayhorn had become essential to the Duke Ellington Band; arranging, composing, sitting-in at the piano. |
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| | Something To Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn |
| | And, like just about everyone else at the time, Strayhorn listened to the Ellington orchestra's radio broadcasts, and heard the band in the flesh in his hometown in June 1934. | | | Something To Live For: The Music Of Billy Strayhorn. | | | Something To Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn |
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| | Billy Strayhorn: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | Classical music was Strayhorn's first and lifelong musical love. | | | Shortly after Strayhorn's death in May 1967, Ellington recorded one of his finest albums and the best introduction to Strayhorn's work, And His Mother Called Him Bill (RCA), in memory of his friend. | | | Beginning in the 1950s, Strayhorn also took on some projects on his own away from Ellington, including a few solo albums, revues for a New York society called the Copasetics, theatre collaborations with Luther Henderson [+], and songs for his friend Lena Horne [+]. |
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| | Billy Strayhorn Part 1 |
| | Strayhorn had aspired to become a concert pianist prior to working for Ellington and had studied both piano and composition at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute. | | | Of the many albums that the Ellington band recorded in its history, the first, that by all accounts confirms Strayhorn as the sole arranger, is Blue Rose. | | | The partnership between Ellington and Strayhorn was truly remarkable. |
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| | glbtq >> arts >> Strayhorn, William Thomas |
| | Racism was certainly a factor contributing to Strayhorn's lack of musical training: he was discouraged from applying to colleges because he was black--and black concert pianists were practically nonexistent at the time. | | | When Strayhorn heard a jazz record for the first time, his musical focus began to shift. | | | Although his grandmother, who played the piano for the choir of her church, encouraged his musical interests, Strayhorn never received much formal musical instruction. |
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Billy Strayhorn |
| | Strayhorn was a technically fluent pianist and made a notable contribution to several small-group recordings by various of Ellington's sidemen, including Cootie Williams (1939), Bigard (1939-40), Johnny Hodges (1939,1947, 1956-8), the Ellingtonians (1950), the Coronets (1950-51), Louie Bellson (1952), Ben Webster (1954), and Clark Terry (1957). | | | Brooke Gladstone has the story of composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn and his enduring jazz classic, a selection from National Public Radio's list of the 100 most important American musical recordings of the 20th Century. | | | The two men were so attuned to one another musically, and Strayhorn's work was such a perfect complement to Ellington's, that it is now impossible to establish the exact extent of the former's contribution to Ellington's oeuvre. |
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| | Strayhorn, Billy on Encyclopedia.com |
| | By 1939 Strayhorn was writing songs, creating arrangements, and sometimes playing piano for the Ellington orchestra. | | | Play on!(new Broadway musical featuring the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; EW Metro)(Brief Article) | | | After “Stray” 's untimely death, Ellington paid tribute to him in And His Mother Called Him Bill (1967), an album of Strayhorn's compositions. |
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| | Ron Gill: The Songs of Billy Strayhorn |
| | Ron Gill: The Songs of Billy Strayhorn is a culmination of Gill's twenty-year search for Strayhorn songs. | | | He began researching Strayhorn songs and twenty years later performed only Strayhorn songs in a sold-out concert March 19, 1997 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, with special guest Hajdu and members of the Strayhorn family. | | | Gill was taken by the song and the response it elicited from the audience. |
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| | Medialunchbox - Music : Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra |
| | Hodges was at the pinnacle of his career and Strayhorn finally got some overdue recognition and lee way to do a fantastic album of covers and originals. | | | This disc which is the result of a session in 1961 that features Johhny Hodges on alto sax with Billy Strayhorn as the band leader. | | | Briefly, Strayhorn was given free rein in providing new arrangments of songs by Ellington, Hodges and himself. |
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Lush Life |
| | Anyone who loves the music of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington must have this album. | | | It features the music of Strayhorn as played by the Ellington orchestra (a rare and excellent recording of Passion Flower featuring Johnny Hodges), Strayhorn the singer!(Lush Life), small group recordings featuring Strayhorn on piano in familiar songs rearranged for the small group. | | | The real value of this album, however, is the insight it gives to the listener of the true genius of Strayhorn. |
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| | Jazzed in Cleveland - Part 31 |
| | Within a year Ellington recorded a series of Strayhorn tunes, including one he adopted as his new theme song. | | | When Herforth went home to Pittsburgh 1938, Strayhorn told him he had been listening to the music of Duke Ellington and shared a secret plan with his longtime friend. | | | In those days, in the early 1930s, Strayhorn and Herforth were not playing jazz; they were playing classical music. |
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| | Vail Daily News for Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado - Arts and Entertainment |
| | Strayhorn did, however, record a few solo albums, worked in partnership with Luther Henderson for the theater and wrote songs for the fabulous Lena Horne, even coaching her in classical music to extend her knowledge and enhance her style of singing. | | | Even tunes that were Strayhorn's alone have suffered; the most notorious being "Take the A Train" - perhaps Strayhorn's most famous, but long thought of as a Ellington song. | | | The bands will each play Strayhorn's music using their own rhythms, styles and interpretations. |
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| | To underscore the tune, Strayhorn turned to a harmonic concept that had been present in the verses of virtually all of his pre-1939 songs (including Lush Life): a two-chord ostinato in lieu of the expected traditional chord sequence. | | | Strayhorn's arrangement of the beautiful but forgotten Ted Grouya song "Flamingo" began what Ellington described as "The renaissance of vocal orchestration
before then, an orchestration for a singer was usually something pretty tepid, and it was just background- that's about all. | | | Mixing bits of Gershwin-style composition with his own style as exhibited in "Concerto for Piano and Percussion", the musical was a hit with the locals. |
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| | Billy Strayhorn |
| | Strayhorn's music and lyrics are among the most sophisticated in the jazz tradition. | | | Within a year, Ellington had recorded Strayhorn's "Something to Live For" and hired him as an arranger and second pianist for the band. | | | Certainly his early study of classical music was an important factor, and echoes of Debussy and Ravel can be heard in his music. |
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| | Billy Strayhorn |
| | However, facts that have come to light since the death of both men reveal that Strayhorn was a full musical partner in every way of the greatest bandleader and composer in all American music... | | | Part of our mission is to provide orchestras and researchers with authoritative scholarly editions of Billy Strayhorn's music, drawn directly from his original handwritten scores, rather than transcribed from existing recordings. | | | Born in Dayton, OH, on 29 November 1915, the young composer and pianist Billy Strayhorn offered his composition |
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| | Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn |
| | Here we see Strayhorn, not only as a man who formed an integral part of the Ellington sound, but a composer who remained true to his own musical ideology, as well. | | | It presents an in-depth study of Strayhorn’s unique contribution to contemporary music, and provides a valuable asset for anyone wanting to learn more about this great figure in jazz music. | | | Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn at Epinions.com |
| | Billy attended Westinghouse High School, where there was a progressive music program that was so radical two teachers left over the fracas. | | | Billy joined the Westinghouse Senior Orchestra and was a featured performer. | | | It was Billy Strayhorn who composed the Ellington Orchestra’s theme song Take the ‘A’ Train from Ellington’s directions on how to get to Harlem by subway. |
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| | The Dutch Jazz Orchestra / Jerry Van Rooijen You Go To My Head— Billy Strayhorn and Standards |
| | You Go To My Head— Billy Strayhorn and Standards is part of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra's series of recordings devoted to the music of Billy Strayhorn on Challenge Records. | | | One great value of this recording, at least for the uninitiated, is that it demonstrates in detail the stylistic differences between the Ellington “sound” and the Strayhorn “sound.” Where Ellington often favored the hotter brass of trumpets, Strayhorn favors the flugelhorn and trombone. | | | Strayhorn alone was credited with composing Ellington's theme (”Take the A Train&;) and several other Ellington-book war-horses (”Lush Life”, “Passion Flower,” “UMMG,” “Blood Count,” and the list goes on). |
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| | Historical richness, aesthetic power of Billy Strayhorn’s jazz coming to life at University |
| | Strayhorn’s niece Alyce Claerbaut and members of the Strayhorn family will present these newly discovered, never performed works, and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra will perform them at 8 p.m. | | | Because if jazz is America’s most distinct contribution to the world’s music, then Strayhorn is one of America’s greatest, and least acknowledged, composers. | | | The song is a prayer, even though it’s wistful and a little dark, it’s describing the life Strayhorn wanted to lead–it’s a dream,” Hajdu wrote. |
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| | 'Johnny Hodges and Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra' by Johnny Hedges from The Portsmouth Chorus. |
| | He's accompanied by the Duke Ellington band with Billy Strayhorn replacing Ellington at the piano and the crisp drumming throughout is by Sam Woodyard. | | | The more snide critic that this album barely qualifies as jazz, but it is the firm framework of Billy Strayhorn's specially commissioned new arrangements (ranging from the reworking of the 1940's hit 'Azure' to the tweaking of the introduction and ensemble passages on 'Jeep's Blues'), that allows Hodges to shine as a soloist comletely unhindered. | | | A perfect example of this is on "Your Love Has Faded" where the listener is treated to the sort of playing that caused Charlie Parker to speak of "Johnny Lily Pons Hodges". |
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| | Billy Strayhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Strayhorn composed the band's theme, "Take The A Train," and a number of other pieces that became part of the band’s repertoire. | | | Ellington included that piece, renamed “Blood Count,” on the album, And His Mother Called Him Bill, that he recorded several months after Strayhorn's death as a tribute to his friend and collaborator. | | | Duke was impressed enough to invite other band members to hear Strayhorn. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Something to Live for: The Music of Billy Strayhorn |
| | And while Strayhorn's life was justly chronicled in David Hajdu's 1996 biography Lush Life, this study of the composer takes a closer look at the musician's work. | | | After reading this book you will have a technical understanding of why Billy Strayhorn's music sounds so good and why Strayhorn needs to be recognized as one of the giants of American popular music. | | | The appendices alone are worth the price of the book, where he lists every scrap of music currently known of Strayhorn's, where it is, when it was recorded, and what was played (in many cases, Ellington only used parts of Strayhorn's arrangements of pop tunes). |
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| | Billy Strayhorn |
| | In early 1939 the Ellington band recorded Strayhorn's "Something to Live For" with Strayhorn at the piano, and three more of his compositions were recorded later that year. | | | The Ellington theme song, "Take the 'A' Train," is a Strayhorn composition, and Strayhorn composed or collaborated on more than 200 recorded works in the Ellington repertoire, plus hundreds of others that have never been recorded. | | | Soon Strayhorn was associate arranger and alternate pianist with the Ellington band. |
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| | Something To Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, Walter Van De Leur |
| | allows us to see the characteristic features of Strayhorn's compositions and arrangements, his "musical fingerprints," and to analyse and evaluate his music on its own terms. | | | Something To Live For The Music Of Billy Strayhorn | | | "Both Strayhorn's and Ellington's œvres," writes Van de Leur, "through historically intertwined, nevertheless form coherent, separate musical entities, especially in terms of harmonic, melodic and structural design." Indeed, |
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| | Strayhorn Home Buy Strayhorn Music. © 2003 Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc. |
| | Strayhorn Bold is a font made be downloaded as Strayhorn Bold truetype or Strayhorn Bold postscript. | | | Search: Popular Music - Artist Name - Album Title - Song Title Used Music Classical Music Music Downloads All Products Sign up to be e-mailed when new music releases for "Billy Strayhorn" arrive. | | | Strayhorn joined Ellington's band in 1939, at the the end of the year Strayhorn had. |
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| | 1702515DZ - Billy Strayhorn - An American Master - Piano (Piano/Vocal/Guitar) |
| | This splendid folio celebrates the music of this American master with 19 original Strayhorn songs arranged for piano with vocals and optional guitar chords. | | | With the lead vocals removed, this is the version that you'll use for performances. | | | Complete song list for "Billy Strayhorn - An American Master" - Sheet Music Songbook: |
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| | PRX » Pieces » Allan Harris: In his own words ... on Billy Strayhorn |
| | Harris convinced the Strayhorn family to give him access to previously unrecorded music as he made his all-Strayhorn CD, Love Came. | | | In this feature, Harris describes his approach to singing Strayhorn's neglected music, as well as his radical reinterpretation of Strayhorn's signature tune, "Lush Life." | | | It was Strayhorn, not his mentor Duke Ellington, who wrote the standards "Take the 'A' Train," "Satin Doll," and "Lush Life." But Strayhorn was black and openly gay, and he lived his life mostly in Ellington's shadow. |
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| | The Billy Strayhorn Master Editions: Introduction |
| | A second set of twenty-six Billy Strayhorn Master Editions was presented to the Chicago Jazz Archive by Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc. on March 29, 2003, at a Strayhorn concert by the Chicago Jazz Orchestra. | | | More information about the festivities surrounding the gift is available from the University of Chicago Chronicle, and there is a March 28, 2003 interview with Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc. representative Alyce Claerbaut on WBEZ's Eight forty-eight with host Richard Steele. | | | The Billy Strayhorn Master Editions are printed performance scores and parts derived directly from the handwritten manuscripts of composer and arranger William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn. |
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| | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn |
| | The partnership between these two immensely talented musicians would continue for the next twenty-five years, until Strayhorn's death from cancer and alcoholism at the age of 52, and produce some of the most beautiful, exciting, and important American music of the century. | | | All of them, it seems, held Strayhorn in extraordinarily high regard, as a uniquely talented musician and as a man of rare intelligence and grace. | | | Hajdu follows Strayhorn from Harlem to Hollywood to Paris, as he lives out the “lush life” of his fantasies. |
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| | Aebersold Volume 66 Billy Strayhorn Sheet Music, Lyrics, Chords! |
| | EMAIL Sheet Music Aebersold Volume 66 Billy Strayhorn to a friend! | | | Digital Aebersold Volume 66 Billy Strayhorn Sheet Music is downloadable and printable now! | | | Top of Aebersold Volume 66 Billy Strayhorn Sheet Music |
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| | ABC News: Cabaret Singer Bobby Short Dies |
| | As times changed and popular music shifted from Sinatra to Springsteen to Snoop Dogg, Short, a three-time Grammy nominee, remained irrevocably devoted to the "great American songbook": songs by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins, Billy Strayhorn, Harold Arlen. |
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| | Billy Strayhorn Links |
| | Dr. Billy Taylor talks about the slow, relaxed "Take the &" version that he and Nance played at Strayhorn’s funeral; then Taylor plays the tune. | | | RealAudio archival recording (59 min.) of the "Jazz from Lincoln Center" episode devoted to Strayhorn. | | | The opening of "Lush Life" performed by Sarah Vaughan. |
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| | Duke Ellington: Billy Strayhorn |
| | If you were to take all the major ballads of any of the great songwriters and boil them into a single composition, you might get a song as good as "Lush Life." Which, as it happens, pretty much sums up Billy Strayhorn's career as a writer of love songs. | | | As Ellington said way back at Carnegie in 1948, "I don't know which is better, living a 'Lush Life' or singing about it." | | | And even "Lush Life" sneaked in through the back door, after being left by its father in the trunk for ten years. |
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| | Plays The Music Of Billy Strayhorn ~ Dutch Jazz Orchestra |
| | Please refer to UPC 608917010626 when inquiring about Plays The Music Of Billy Strayhorn by Dutch Jazz Orchestra. | | | Plays The Music Of Billy Strayhorn ~ Dutch Jazz Orchestra | | | We do not sell used items, bootlegs, copies, cutouts, or promos. |
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| | Lush Life : A Biography of Billy Strayhorn |
| | This is one of the best if not the best music bio I've read. | | | The author was here in Seattle for an Elllngton concert with Earshot Jazz and I met and chatted with him.... | | | I really felt like I knew the man after reading this. |
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| | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn:Hajdu, David:0374194386:eCampus.com |
| | A musical prodigy who began a career as a composer while still a teenager in Pittsburgh, Strayhorn came to New York City at Duke Ellington's invitation in 1939; soon afterward he wrote "'A' Train", which became the signature song of the Ellington Orchestra, one of the most popular jazz bands in the country. | | | Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) was one of the most accomplished composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train", "Lush Life", and "Something to Live For". | | | Yet all his life Strayhorn was overshadowed by another great composer: his employer, friend, and collaborator, Duke Ellington, with whom he worked as the Ellington Orchestra's ace songwriter and arranger. |
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| | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, David Hadju |
| | Billy Strayhorn was a black, gay genius who wrote and arranged much of the music played by the most famous band in jazz history: the Duke Ellington Orchestra. | | | Something To Live For a life of Strayhorn by Walter Van De Leur | | | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, David Hadju |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts features Turn on, tune in, call Steely Dan |
| | Some of McPartland's radio shows - with Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea and so on - are available on CD, and the latest, somewhat eccentric, one is Piano Jazz with Guest Steely Dan (Jazz Alliance, £12.99), in which McPartland asks Walter Becker and Donald Fagen about jazz, songwriting and the meaning of the verb "to gaslight". | | | Perhaps the nicest moments are duos: McPartland with Roy Hargrove on My Foolish Heart; with George Wein on Billy Strayhorn's Take the "A" Train; with Jim Hall on Free Piece; and with Freelon on a great version of Duke Ellington's What Am I Here For? |
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| | DSPP: Billy Strayhorn |
| | DSPP Arts Committee is delighted to present bassist James Gilyard and pianist Kelly Durbin in a lecture/concert, “Billy Strayhorn: Portrait of a Jazz Composer." The presentation will take place on Sunday, May 20, 4:00-6:00 p.m., at the home of Sarah and Robert Aberg. | | | Billy Strayhorn was one of the world’s finest and most influential jazz composers. | | | Aberg, a distinguished past-president of DSPP, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and clinical faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He and his wife, Sarah, a musician/singer and psychotherapist, are original and ongoing members of DSPP's Arts Committee. |
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| | Lotus Blossom by Billy Strayhorn Project |
| | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc. All Music Guide is a registered Trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc. | | | Tag all your own MP3 files with album covers easily with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus! | | | Sunset and the Mockingbird (The Queen's Suite) - Billy Strayhorn |
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| | Very good performance by Tony Overwater : I saw and heard Tony Overwater and his Trio together with the Calefax Reed Quintet at the North Sea Jazz festival last Sunday, July 10th. | | | Stimmungsvoller Bigband Jazz : Die Aufnahme von Johnny Hodges und Billy Strayhorn ist eine sehr stimmungsvolles Beispiel für den Bigband Jazz der frühen sechziger Jahre. |
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| | Artists: Billy Strayhorn |
| | In 1993, Billy Taylor recorded and produced "Dr. T" featuring Gerry Mulligan on GRP records (GRD-9692). | | | Among his hundreds of compositions best known are "Lush Life" and "Take the A Train". | | | Billy Taylor plays "Take the A Train" demonstrating the use of tenths in chord voicings. |
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| | Sweet Thunder, the Billy Strayhorn Story |
| | Explore the life of Pittsburgh native Billy Strayhorn, whose collaborations with Duke Ellington created some of the most beautiful songs in jazz. | | | Please contact the Kuntu Repertory Theater or see their web site for show times and other information. |
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