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Hilary Hahn

Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979) is an American violinist. She has performed throughout the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors and as a recitalist. She is an avid supporter of contemporary classical music, and several composers have written works for her, including concerti by Edgar Meyer and Jennifer Higdon, partitas by Antón García Abril, two serenades for violin and orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara, and a violin and piano sonata by Lera Auerbach.

Hilary Hahn
Hahn in 2019
Background information
Born (1979-11-27) November 27, 1979 (age 43)
Lexington, Virginia, US
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Violinist
Instrument(s)
Websitewww.hilaryhahn.com

Early life and education

Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia, on November 27, 1979,[4] and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.[5][6] Her father, Steve Hahn, was a journalist and librarian;[5][6] her paternal great-grandmother was from Bad Dürkheim in Germany.[5] Her mother Anne was an accountant.[5][6]

A musically precocious child, Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore's Peabody Institute.[7] She participated in a Suzuki class for a year. From 1985 to 1990 she studied in Baltimore under Klara Berkovich.[8]

In 1990, at age ten, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky for seven years. She learned the études of Kreutzer, Ševčík, Gaviniès and Rode, Paganini's Caprices, 28 violin concertos, and chamber works and assorted showpieces.[9]

At 16 she completed the Curtis Institute's university requirements, but she remained for several years to pursue elective courses until her graduation in May 1999 with a Bachelor of Music degree.[9] During this time she studied violin with Jaime Laredo[10] and studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman.[4]

She also spent four summers in the total-immersion language programs in German, French and Japanese at Middlebury College.[11]

Musical career

In 1991, at age 11, Hahn made her major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.[12] Soon thereafter she debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra,[13] Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.[13] She made her international debut in 1994 performing the Bernstein Serenade in Hungary with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Her German debut came in 1995 with a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.[14] The concert was broadcast in Europe.

In 1996, she debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, playing Saint-Saens’s third violin concerto.[15] In a 1999 interview with Strings Magazine, she cited people influential to her development as a musician and a student, including David Zinman, the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and Hahn's mentor since she was ten, and Lorin Maazel, with whose Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra she performed in Europe.[16]

Hahn began recording in 1996.[17] Her earlier television appearances include Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood in 2000 (episode 1755), where Mr. Rogers visits a local music store and she plays for him. She has released 16 albums on the Deutsche Grammophon and Sony labels, three DVDs, an Oscar-nominated movie soundtrack, an award-winning recording for children, and various compilations. Her recordings often blend newer and traditional pieces.[18] Her albums include pairings of Beethoven with Bernstein, Schoenberg with Sibelius, Brahms with Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky with Jennifer Higdon.[19][20][21][22]

Hahn has played with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra,[23] New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 she debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and played in Vatican City as part of the celebrations for Pope Benedict XVI with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gustavo Dudamel.[24][25] The concert was recorded and released by Deutsche Grammophon.[26]

She has also performed as a chamber musician. Since 1992 she has performed nearly every year with the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival in Skaneateles, New York.[27] From 1995 to 2000 she performed and studied chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont,[28] and in 1996 she was an artist and a member of the chamber music mentoring program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.[9] In 2004 she toured Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the Poulenc Trio.[29]

Hahn has been interested in cross-genre collaboration and pushing musical boundaries. She began performing and touring in crossover duos with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter in 2007 and with singer-songwriter Tom Brosseau in 2005.[30] She has recorded songs with "…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead".[31] In 2012 she released an album with German pianist and composer Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) titled Silfra. The songs on the disc were completely improvised. Silfra was produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson.[32][33] According to her, "Other musicians cross genres all the time. For me it's not crossover—I just enter their world. It frees you up to think in a different way from what you've been trained to do."[34]

In June 2014, Hahn was awarded the Glashütte Original MusikFestspiel-Preis of the Dresden Music Festival.[35]

Since 2016, she has piloted free concerts for parents with infants, a knitting circle, a community dance workshop, a yoga class, and art students. She plans to continue these community-oriented concerts, encouraging people to combine live performances with their interests outside the concert hall and providing opportunities for parents to hear music with their infants, who might be barred from traditional concerts.[36]

In 2020, Hahn and AI roboticist and tech entrepreneur Carol E. Reiley cofounded DeepMusic.ai to work with artists and AI companies to amplify human creativity.[37]

Commissioning

Hahn is a noted champion of new works. In 1999 she commissioned Edgar Meyer to write a concerto. She later recorded the piece with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.[38] In 2010 a concerto written for Hahn by Jennifer Higdon and recorded with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music.[39]

She commissioned 26 contemporary composers to write short encore pieces for In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores. Among the composers are David Del Tredici, Jennifer Higdon, Du Yun, Elliott Sharp, David Lang, Nico Muhly, James Newton Howard, Valentyn Silvestrov, and Max Richter.[40] For the 27th encore she held an open contest that drew more than 400 entries and was won by Jeff Myers.[41] The international premiere tours, from 2011 to 2013, met with wide critical and audience acclaim.[42][43][44] In November 2013 these 27 short pieces were released on Deutsche Grammophon.[45] The recording won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

After playing Einojuhani Rautavaara's violin concerto, Hahn commissioned another concerto from Rautavaara, but due to his weak condition the project was thought to be forgotten. But after his death, it was revealed to conductor Mikko Franck, a friend of Rautavaara's, that Rautavaara had written two serenades for violin and orchestra. The serenades were premiered on Hahn's album Paris.[46]

In 2016 and 2017, in recital tours across the U.S., Europe, and Japan, she premiered six new partitas for solo violin by Antón García Abril, her first commissioning project for solo violin, as well as her first commission of a set of works from a single composer. She forged a relationship with García Abril during In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores. Digital and physical editions of the complete sheet music for these 27 encores have been released by Boosey & Hawkes. In 2019 Hahn and Lera Auerbach premiered Auerbach's sonata for violin and piano Fractured Dreams.

Film music

Hahn began her film recording career as the soloist for James Newton Howard's score for M. Night Shyamalan's The Village in 2004. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.[47] Her recording of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto was used extensively in The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. The film uses the piece's second movement to accompany a nine-minute sequence.[48] In 2013, she was the soloist on Andrew Hewitt's score for the film The Sea.[49]

On playing Bach

In 1999 Hahn said that she played Bach more than any other composer and had played solo Bach pieces every day since she was eight.[9]

Bach is, for me, the touchstone that keeps my playing honest. Keeping the intonation pure in double stops, bringing out the various voices where the phrasing requires it, crossing the strings so that there are not inadvertent accents, presenting the structure in such a way that it's clear to the listener without being pedantic – one can't fake things in Bach, and if one gets all of them to work, the music sings in the most wonderful way.

— Hilary Hahn, Saint Paul Sunday[50]

In a segment on NPR titled "Musicians in Their Own Words", she spoke about the surreal experience of playing the Bach Chaconne (from the Partita for Violin No. 2) alone on the concert stage. In the same segment she discussed her experiences emulating a lark while playing The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams.[51]

Instrument

 
Hilary Hahn, violin; Valentina Lisitsa, piano (2009)

Her violin is an 1864 copy of Paganini's Cannone made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.[1] In an interview on Danish television, Hahn said she almost never leaves her instrument out of sight. She uses bows by American bow maker Isaac Salchow.[52] For her strings, she uses Thomastik-Infeld Dominants for the A (aluminum wound), D and G (silver wound) and a Pirastro Gold Label Steel E.[53]

She has also acquired a second Vuillaume, an 1865 model loosely based on the 1715 Alard Stradivarius, and has used both in recent years for recording and performing.[2][3]

Journal

Hahn's website includes a section titled "By Hilary." In a Strings Magazine interview, she said that the idea for her "Postcards from the Road" feature originated during an outreach visit to a third-grade class in upstate New York. The class was doing a geography project in which the students asked everyone they knew who was traveling to send postcards from the cities they were visiting to learn more about the world. She decided to participate after receiving a positive reaction to her suggestion that she take part.[9] She enjoyed her first year's experience with the project so much that she decided to continue it on her new website.[54] A few years later she expanded the postcards to a journal format. Journal entries usually include photographs from her tours and rehearsals.

Personal life

Since 2016, Hahn and her husband have lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after having lived in New York City for several years.[55][56] They have two daughters.[55]

On September 1, 2019, she announced that she was taking a year-long sabbatical and would resume performing in the 2020–21 season.[57]

Discography

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External links

  • Official website
  • Classical Archives interview
  • BACH & friends documentary
  • Hilary Hahn's Twitter page
  • Hilary Hahn's Instagram page

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Hilary Hahn born November 27 1979 is an American violinist She has performed throughout the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors and as a recitalist She is an avid supporter of contemporary classical music and several composers have written works for her including concerti by Edgar Meyer and Jennifer Higdon partitas by Anton Garcia Abril two serenades for violin and orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara and a violin and piano sonata by Lera Auerbach Hilary HahnHahn in 2019Background informationBorn 1979 11 27 November 27 1979 age 43 Lexington Virginia USGenresClassicalOccupation s ViolinistInstrument s 1864 J B Vuillaume Il Cannone Guarneri reproduction 1 1865 J B Vuillaume Alard Stradivarius loose reproduction 2 3 Websitewww wbr hilaryhahn wbr com Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Musical career 2 1 Commissioning 2 2 Film music 2 3 On playing Bach 3 Instrument 4 Journal 5 Personal life 6 Discography 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and education EditHahn was born in Lexington Virginia on November 27 1979 4 and grew up in Baltimore Maryland 5 6 Her father Steve Hahn was a journalist and librarian 5 6 her paternal great grandmother was from Bad Durkheim in Germany 5 Her mother Anne was an accountant 5 6 A musically precocious child Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore s Peabody Institute 7 She participated in a Suzuki class for a year From 1985 to 1990 she studied in Baltimore under Klara Berkovich 8 In 1990 at age ten she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Jascha Brodsky for seven years She learned the etudes of Kreutzer Sevcik Gavinies and Rode Paganini s Caprices 28 violin concertos and chamber works and assorted showpieces 9 At 16 she completed the Curtis Institute s university requirements but she remained for several years to pursue elective courses until her graduation in May 1999 with a Bachelor of Music degree 9 During this time she studied violin with Jaime Laredo 10 and studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman 4 She also spent four summers in the total immersion language programs in German French and Japanese at Middlebury College 11 Musical career EditIn 1991 at age 11 Hahn made her major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 12 Soon thereafter she debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra 13 Cleveland Orchestra Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic 13 She made her international debut in 1994 performing the Bernstein Serenade in Hungary with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra Her German debut came in 1995 with a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 14 The concert was broadcast in Europe In 1996 she debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra playing Saint Saens s third violin concerto 15 In a 1999 interview with Strings Magazine she cited people influential to her development as a musician and a student including David Zinman the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and Hahn s mentor since she was ten and Lorin Maazel with whose Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra she performed in Europe 16 Hahn began recording in 1996 17 Her earlier television appearances include Mr Rogers Neighborhood in 2000 episode 1755 where Mr Rogers visits a local music store and she plays for him She has released 16 albums on the Deutsche Grammophon and Sony labels three DVDs an Oscar nominated movie soundtrack an award winning recording for children and various compilations Her recordings often blend newer and traditional pieces 18 Her albums include pairings of Beethoven with Bernstein Schoenberg with Sibelius Brahms with Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky with Jennifer Higdon 19 20 21 22 Hahn has played with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra 23 New York Philharmonic Boston Symphony Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra NHK Symphony Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra In 2007 she debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and played in Vatican City as part of the celebrations for Pope Benedict XVI with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gustavo Dudamel 24 25 The concert was recorded and released by Deutsche Grammophon 26 She has also performed as a chamber musician Since 1992 she has performed nearly every year with the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival in Skaneateles New York 27 From 1995 to 2000 she performed and studied chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont 28 and in 1996 she was an artist and a member of the chamber music mentoring program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 9 In 2004 she toured Saint Petersburg Russia with the Poulenc Trio 29 Hahn has been interested in cross genre collaboration and pushing musical boundaries She began performing and touring in crossover duos with singer songwriter Josh Ritter in 2007 and with singer songwriter Tom Brosseau in 2005 30 She has recorded songs with And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead 31 In 2012 she released an album with German pianist and composer Hauschka Volker Bertelmann titled Silfra The songs on the disc were completely improvised Silfra was produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson 32 33 According to her Other musicians cross genres all the time For me it s not crossover I just enter their world It frees you up to think in a different way from what you ve been trained to do 34 In June 2014 Hahn was awarded the Glashutte Original MusikFestspiel Preis of the Dresden Music Festival 35 Since 2016 she has piloted free concerts for parents with infants a knitting circle a community dance workshop a yoga class and art students She plans to continue these community oriented concerts encouraging people to combine live performances with their interests outside the concert hall and providing opportunities for parents to hear music with their infants who might be barred from traditional concerts 36 In 2020 Hahn and AI roboticist and tech entrepreneur Carol E Reiley cofounded DeepMusic ai to work with artists and AI companies to amplify human creativity 37 Commissioning Edit Hahn is a noted champion of new works In 1999 she commissioned Edgar Meyer to write a concerto She later recorded the piece with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra 38 In 2010 a concerto written for Hahn by Jennifer Higdon and recorded with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music 39 She commissioned 26 contemporary composers to write short encore pieces for In 27 Pieces the Hilary Hahn Encores Among the composers are David Del Tredici Jennifer Higdon Du Yun Elliott Sharp David Lang Nico Muhly James Newton Howard Valentyn Silvestrov and Max Richter 40 For the 27th encore she held an open contest that drew more than 400 entries and was won by Jeff Myers 41 The international premiere tours from 2011 to 2013 met with wide critical and audience acclaim 42 43 44 In November 2013 these 27 short pieces were released on Deutsche Grammophon 45 The recording won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Small Ensemble Performance After playing Einojuhani Rautavaara s violin concerto Hahn commissioned another concerto from Rautavaara but due to his weak condition the project was thought to be forgotten But after his death it was revealed to conductor Mikko Franck a friend of Rautavaara s that Rautavaara had written two serenades for violin and orchestra The serenades were premiered on Hahn s album Paris 46 In 2016 and 2017 in recital tours across the U S Europe and Japan she premiered six new partitas for solo violin by Anton Garcia Abril her first commissioning project for solo violin as well as her first commission of a set of works from a single composer She forged a relationship with Garcia Abril during In 27 Pieces the Hilary Hahn Encores Digital and physical editions of the complete sheet music for these 27 encores have been released by Boosey amp Hawkes In 2019 Hahn and Lera Auerbach premiered Auerbach s sonata for violin and piano Fractured Dreams Film music Edit Hahn began her film recording career as the soloist for James Newton Howard s score for M Night Shyamalan s The Village in 2004 The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score 47 Her recording of Samuel Barber s Violin Concerto was used extensively in The Deep Blue Sea starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston The film uses the piece s second movement to accompany a nine minute sequence 48 In 2013 she was the soloist on Andrew Hewitt s score for the film The Sea 49 On playing Bach Edit In 1999 Hahn said that she played Bach more than any other composer and had played solo Bach pieces every day since she was eight 9 Bach is for me the touchstone that keeps my playing honest Keeping the intonation pure in double stops bringing out the various voices where the phrasing requires it crossing the strings so that there are not inadvertent accents presenting the structure in such a way that it s clear to the listener without being pedantic one can t fake things in Bach and if one gets all of them to work the music sings in the most wonderful way Hilary Hahn Saint Paul Sunday 50 In a segment on NPR titled Musicians in Their Own Words she spoke about the surreal experience of playing the Bach Chaconne from the Partita for Violin No 2 alone on the concert stage In the same segment she discussed her experiences emulating a lark while playing The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams 51 Instrument Edit Hilary Hahn violin Valentina Lisitsa piano 2009 Her violin is an 1864 copy of Paganini s Cannone made by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume 1 In an interview on Danish television Hahn said she almost never leaves her instrument out of sight She uses bows by American bow maker Isaac Salchow 52 For her strings she uses Thomastik Infeld Dominants for the A aluminum wound D and G silver wound and a Pirastro Gold Label Steel E 53 She has also acquired a second Vuillaume an 1865 model loosely based on the 1715 Alard Stradivarius and has used both in recent years for recording and performing 2 3 Journal EditHahn s website includes a section titled By Hilary In a Strings Magazine interview she said that the idea for her Postcards from the Road feature originated during an outreach visit to a third grade class in upstate New York The class was doing a geography project in which the students asked everyone they knew who was traveling to send postcards from the cities they were visiting to learn more about the world She decided to participate after receiving a positive reaction to her suggestion that she take part 9 She enjoyed her first year s experience with the project so much that she decided to continue it on her new website 54 A few years later she expanded the postcards to a journal format Journal entries usually include photographs from her tours and rehearsals Personal life EditSince 2016 Hahn and her husband have lived in Cambridge Massachusetts after having lived in New York City for several years 55 56 They have two daughters 55 On September 1 2019 she announced that she was taking a year long sabbatical and would resume performing in the 2020 21 season 57 Discography EditHilary Hahn Plays Bach 1997 with Partita No 3 in E major BWV 1006 Partita No 2 in D minor BWV 1004 and Sonata No 3 in C major BWV 1005 Beethoven Violin Concerto Bernstein Serenade 1999 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra David Zinman conductor Grammy Nominee Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra Barber amp Meyer Violin Concertos 2000 Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Hugh Wolff conductor Brahms amp Stravinsky Violin Concertos 2001 Academy of St Martin in the Fields Neville Marriner conductor Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist s Performance with orchestra Mendelssohn amp Shostakovich Concertos 2002 Oslo Philharmonic Marek Janowski and Hugh Wolff conductors Bach Concertos 2003 Hilary Hahn violin Margaret Batjer violin Allan Vogel oboe Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane conductor The Village Motion Picture Soundtrack 2004 Hilary Hahn featured violinist music composed by James Newton Howard Elgar Violin Concerto Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending 2004 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis conductor Mozart Violin Sonatas K 301 K 304 K 376 amp K 526 2005 Natalie Zhu piano accompanist 58 To Russia My Homeland from the album Worlds Apart by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead 2005 Paganini Violin Concerto No 1 Spohr Violin Concerto No 8 Gesangsszene 2006 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Eiji Oue conductor Witch s Web from the album So Divided by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead 2006 Der Kleine Horsaal Die Geige mit Hilary Hahn 2007 Hilary Hahn narrator 59 Fork in the Road and Blue Part of the Windshield from the album Grand Forks by Tom Brosseau 2007 Schoenberg Violin Concerto Sibelius Violin Concerto 2008 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Esa Pekka Salonen conductor Debuted at No 1 on Classical Billboard chart for three weeks the first Schoenberg recording to debut at 1 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist s Performance with orchestra 60 Grammy Nominee Best Classical Album Ranked No 6 by Newsweek on its list of the ten best albums of the decade 61 Bach Violin amp Voice 62 2010 Hilary Hahn violin Christine Schafer soprano Matthias Goerne baritone Munich Chamber Orchestra Higdon amp Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos 2010 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Vasily Petrenko conductor Charles Ives Four Sonatas 2011 Valentina Lisitsa piano accompanist Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Silfra 2012 Hauschka aka Volker Bertelmann prepared piano In 27 Pieces The Hilary Hahn Encores 2013 Cory Smythe piano accompanist Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Small Ensemble Performance Mozart 5 Vieuxtemps 4 Violin Concertos 2015 Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Paavo Jarvi conductor Hilary Hahn Plays Bach Sonatas 1 amp 2 Partita 1 2018 with Sonata for Violin Solo No 1 in G minor BWV 1001 Partita for Violin Solo No 1 in B minor BWV 1002 and Sonata for Violin Solo No 2 in A minor BWV 1003 6 Partitas by Anton Garcia Abril 2019 Partitas for solo violin written for Hilary Hahn Paris 2021 with Chausson s Poeme Prokofiev s Violin Concerto No 1 amp Rautavaara s two serenades for violin and orchestra Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Mikko Franck conductor 63 Eclipse 2022 with Dvorak s Violin Concerto Ginastera s Violin Concerto amp Sarasate s Carmen Fantasy Frankfurt Radio Symphony Andres Orozco Estrada conductor 64 References Edit a b Hilary Hahn Violin the Strad Archived from the original on April 22 2016 a b Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim October 24 2018 Review Hilary Hahn Plays an Unabashedly Romantic Bach The New York Times Archived from the original on September 29 2019 Retrieved September 29 2019 a b Hilary Hahn J B Vuillaume 1865 Tarisio Archived from the original on August 6 2019 Retrieved September 17 2019 a b Great 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