CONCERTS AND EVENTS

Carmel Bach Festival

2013 Festival Dates: July 13 - 27, 2013


Mon, Jul 8
Adams Vocal Master Class Open Session (Free)

Observe first-hand the four Virginia Best Adams Master Class Fellows as they prepare for their showcase performance on July 27. The participants will be guided and coached by VBA Director David Gordon and the 2013 Bach Festival vocal soloists. 

Teacher: David Gordon
Soloist: TBD
Keyboardist: Michael Beattie

Wed, Jul 10
Chamber Concert A Bach Prelude ($39.00)

J.S. Bach, Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1016 and 1019
Georg Philipp Telemann, Sonata for Solo Violin

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Thu, Jul 11
Adams Vocal Master Class Open Session (Free)

Observe first-hand the four Virginia Best Adams Master Class Fellows as they prepare for their showcase performance on July 27. The participants will be guided and coached by VBA Director David Gordon and the 2013 Bach Festival vocal soloists. 

Teacher: David Gordon
Soloist: TBD
Keyboardist: Michael Beattie

Fri, Jul 12
Gala Dinner ($275/$500)

The Carmel Bach Festival’s Gala C’est Magnifique on Friday July 12th at
Carmel Valley Ranch is the prelude to the Festival’s opening night. This year
we celebrate our beloved Festival Dramaturge David Gordon and honor his
25th anniversary with the Festival. The evening will also feature live
performances mandolinists Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg who wowed
our audiences in 2012. Carmel Valley Ranch’s award-winning Executive Chef Tim Wood will
create a dinner featuring local, sustainable ingredients and true farm-to-table cooking accented
by fine wines. The festivities will also include a live auction offering many once-in-a-lifetime experiences
such as lunch at Hearst Ranch followed by a private tour and cocktail reception at Hearst Castle.

 
Last year the funds raised enabled the Festival to expand our reach on
stage and in our local communities. This year, with your help,
we hope to build on that success. We have expanded our pricing to include
individual gala tickets and gala benefactor tickets. Individual tickets are
$275 each or purchase a gala table (10 individuals) for $2,750.
 
You may also wish to become a gala benefactor.  Levels are:

CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES TICKET: $500 per Individual
Benefits for this level include:
•Preferred seating
•Priority bidder check-out
•Recognition on Gala materials including invitation, program, website details page, and signage

ARC DE TRIOMPHE TICKET: $1,000 per Individual
Benefits for this level include:
•Preferred seating
•Priority bidder check-out
•Prominent recognition on Gala materials including invitation, program, website details page, and signage
•1 ticket to 2013 Best of Fest on 7/27

EIFFEL TOWER TABLE: $5,000 Reserved Table That Seats up to Ten Individuals
Benefits for this level include:
•Preferred table placement
•Exclusive wines served to you and your guests at dinner
•Priority bidder check-out
•2 tickets to 2013 Opening Night on 7/13/13 & Best of Fest on 7/27
•Top-tier recognition on Gala materials including invitation, program, website details page, and signage
•Autographed copy of David Gordon’s biography on Festival co-founders Dene Denny & Hazel Watrous
 
Sat, Jul 13
Main Concert Bach to Faure Week 1 (Opening Night) ($76/$70/$55/$40)

J.S. Bach, Cantata O Ewigkeit du Donnerwort, BWV 20

Thea Musgrave, Commissioned Work (world premiere)

George Frederic Handel, Concerto No. 2 a Due Cori in F Major, HWV 333

Gabriel Fauré, Requiem (full orchestra version)

Sun, Jul 14
Main Concert Christmas Oratorio Week 1 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (complete), BWV 248 

Chamber Concert Schubert Octet ($41.00)

Franz Schubert, Octet in F Major, D. 803


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Mon, Jul 15
Chamber Concert All-Bach Organ Recital Week 1 ($29.00)

J.S. Bach, Pièce d’orgue, BWV 572

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648

Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 606

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604

Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611

Helft mir, Gotts Güte preisen, BWV 613

Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614

In dir ist Freude, BWV 615

Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 769

Aria in F Major (after Couperin), BWV 587

Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552



** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box

Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. ** 
 
Adams Vocal Master Class Open Session (Free)

Observe first-hand the four Virginia Best Adams Master Class Fellows as they prepare for their showcase performance on July 27. The participants will be guided and coached by VBA Director David Gordon and the 2013 Bach Festival vocal soloists. 

Teacher: David Gordon
Soloist: TBD
Keyboardist: Michael Beattie

Chamber Concert Transcendent Bach Week 1 ($29.00)

J.S. Bach, O du angenehmes Paar from Cantata BWV 197

Es ist vollbracht from Cantata BWV 159

George Frederic Handel, Trio Sonata in G Minor, Op. 2, No. 5

J.S. Bach, Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82 

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Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
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Main Concert Concertmaster Peter Hanson Presents Week 1 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Orchestra in G Major, “Alla rustica”, RV 151

Georg Muffat, Sonata No. 5 from “Armonico Tributo”

George Frederic Handel, Concerto Grosso in A Major, Op. 6, No. 11

J.S. Bach, Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041

Georg Philipp Telemann, Overture-Suite in B-flat Major, “Les Nations,” TWV 55.B5

J.S. Bach, Concerto for Three Violins, BWV 1064

Tue, Jul 16
Chamber Concert Bach's Brunch - Solo Suites Week 1 ($31.00)

J.S. Bach, French Suites, BWV 813, 814

François Couperin, Quinzième ordre

Chamber Concert Impressions of Paris Week 1 ($29.00)

Maurice Ravel, Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques (Arr. Salzedo)

Camille Saint-Saëns, Romance, Op. 34

Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro

Gabriel Fauré, La bonne chanson



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Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
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Main Concert Inside the Music: French Beginning to End Week 1 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

Guillaume de Machaut, Gloria from Messe de Nostre Dame

Anonymous, Estampie Royal

Josquin des Pres, Kyrie from Misse Sine Nomine

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Suite from Le bourgeois gentilhomme   

J.S. Bach, Cantata Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61

Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Joseph Canteloube, Lou Coucut and Bailero from Songs of the Auvergne

Francis Poulenc, Clic, Clac, dansez sabots and Chanson à boire

Léo Delibes, “Sous le dôme épais” from Lakmé

Georges Bizet, Prelude and Duet “Au fond du temple saint” from The Pearl Fishers

Excerpts from Carmen Entr’acte to Act III, Chorus – A deux cuartos!, March and Chorus from Act IV – Les Voici

Wed, Jul 17
Chamber Concert Rivalry and Ridicule: Lully, Charpentier and the "Italian" Controversy Week 1 ($29.00)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, La Nuit 

Excerpt from Epitaphium Carpentarii

Tout cède aux doucers de mes accords charmants!

La Musique from Les plaisirs de Versailles

Scene from Le Sicilien

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Intermedio de la musica francese è la musica italiana

Robert De Visée, Entrée d’Apollon, Les sourdines d’Armide, and Air

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Passacaille d’Armide

J.S. Bach, Ouverture from Partita in D Major

Georg Muffat, Passacaglia
 

** This event was previous called 'Treasures of the French Baroque' in previous printed materials. **

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. **
Chamber Concert Twilight Trios Week 1 ($39.00)

Joseph Haydn, Trio in G Major, H. XV 25, “Gypsy Rondo”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata for Violin and Fortepiano, K. 301

Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3

Main Concert Founders Concert at the Carmel Mission Week 1 ($85/$70)

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Dominus regnavit

J.S. Bach, Cantata O ewiges Feuer, BWV 34

Gabriel Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine

J.S. Bach, Der Geist hilft, BWV 226

James Macmillan, Factus est repente

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Cantique des cantiques

Thu, Jul 18
Adams Vocal Master Class Open Session (Free)

Observe first-hand the four Virginia Best Adams Master Class Fellows as they prepare for their showcase performance on July 27. The participants will be guided and coached by VBA Director David Gordon and the 2013 Bach Festival vocal soloists. 

Teacher: David Gordon
Soloist: TBD
Keyboardist: Michael Beattie

Chamber Concert Melodies Francaises Week 1

** Please note: This concert was originally titled "Berlioz, Chausson and Poulenc Songs". The program content is the same. **

Reynaldo Hahn, 
À Chloris, Quand je fus pris au pavillon, and L’Énamourée

Ernst Chausson, Le colibri, Le charme, Les papillons from Sept melodies

Sérénade from Quatre melodies

Sérénade Italienne from Sept melodies

Francis Poulenc, Chansons villageoises

 Chanson du clair tamis

 Les gars qui vont à la fête

 C’est le joli printemps

 Le Mendiant

 Chanson de la fille frivole

 Le retour du sergent

Hector Berlioz, Sur les lagunes and Le spectre de la rose from Les nuits d’été

Kurt Weill, French Cabaret Songs

Complainte de la Seine

Je ne t’aime pas

Youkali

 

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Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
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Chamber Concert Bach in the Cathedral Week 1 ($39.00)

Arcangelo Corelli, Sonata for Trumpet and Strings

J.S. Bach, Harpsichord Concerto in G Minor, BWV 1058

Cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51

Main Concert Stephen Prutsman Plays Bach … and more! Week 1 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

J.C Bach, Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 7, No. 5

Stephen Prutsman, Two Jazz Piano Etudes (Shadows and Dog)

Darius Milhaud, La création du monde

J.S. Bach, French Suite No. 5 in G Major and Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053

Fri, Jul 19
Chamber Concert Music from Salons & Brothels Week 1 ($29.00)

Chrisoph Gluck, Ouverture d’Iphingenie

Fernando Sor, Introduction and Funeral March from Fantasie élégiaque

Mauro Giuliani, Maestoso from Op. 25

Franz Schubert, Six Waltzes from D. 365

Robert Schumann, Abendlied from Op. 85

Julian Aracas, Introduction, Tango and Danza Americana

Sebastian Iradier, La Paloma

Manuel de Falla, Tombeau pour Debussy - Homanaje

Astor Piazzola, L’histoire du Tango

Brodel, Café, Night Club

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Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
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Chamber Concert Beethoven's Brio Week 1 ($29.00)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Oboe Quartet, K. 370

Giuseppe Cambini, Variations on “La Marseillaise”

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 1

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Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
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Main Concert Concert Fantastique Week 1 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

Jean-Philippe Rameau, Suite: Les Boréades

Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin

Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique

Sat, Jul 20
Chamber Concert Parisian Matinee Concertante Week 1 ($31.00)

J.C. Bach, Symphonie Concertante for Two Flutes, Two Violins and Cello in D Major

Chevalier de Saint-Georges (le Mozart Noir), Violin Concerto, Op. Posthumous

François Devienne, Flute Concerto

François Joseph Gossec, Symphony in D Major, "Pastorella"

Franz Josef Haydn, Symphony No. 85 in B-flat Major, "La Reine”


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Chamber Concert Youth Chorus ($21.00)

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Main Concert Bach to Faure Week 2 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

J.S. Bach, Cantata O Ewigkeit du Donnerwort, BWV 20

Thea Musgrave, Commissioned Work (world premiere)

George Frederic Handel, Concerto No. 2 a Due Cori in F Major, HWV 333

Gabriel Fauré, Requiem (full orchestra version)

Sun, Jul 21
Main Concert Christmas Oratorio Week 2 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (complete), BWV 248 

Chamber Concert Buxtehude - Membra Jesu Nostri Week 2 ($39.00)

Dieterich Buxtehude, Membra Jesu Nostri

Mon, Jul 22
Chamber Concert All-Bach Organ Recital Week 2 ($29.00)

J.S. Bach, Pièce d’orgue, BWV 572

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648

Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 606

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604

Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611

Helft mir, Gotts Güte preisen, BWV 613

Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614

In dir ist Freude, BWV 615

Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 769

Aria in F Major (after Couperin), BWV 587

Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552

 

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. **
Adams Vocal Master Class Open Session (Free)

Observe first-hand the four Virginia Best Adams Master Class Fellows as they prepare for their showcase performance on July 27. The participants will be guided and coached by VBA Director David Gordon and the 2013 Bach Festival vocal soloists. 

Teacher: David Gordon
Soloist: TBD
Keyboardist: Michael Beattie

Chamber Concert Transcendent Bach Week 2 ($29.00)

J.S. Bach, O du angenehmes Paar from Cantata BWV 197

Es ist vollbracht from Cantata BWV 159

George Frederic Handel, Trio Sonata in G Minor, Op. 2, No. 5

J.S. Bach, Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82 

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. ** 

Main Concert Concertmaster Peter Hanson Presents Week 2 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Orchestra in G Major, “Alla rustica”, RV 151

Georg Muffat, Sonata No. 5 from “Armonico Tributo”

George Frederic Handel, Concerto Grosso in A Major, Op. 6, No. 11

J.S. Bach, Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041

Georg Philipp Telemann, Overture-Suite in B-flat Major, “Les Nations,” TWV 55.B5

J.S. Bach, Concerto for Three Violins, BWV 1064

Tue, Jul 23
Chamber Concert Bach's Brunch - Solo Suites Week 2 ($31.00)

J.S. Bach, Cello Suites, BWV 1007, 1008

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Pièces pour violoncelle seule

** THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT ** 

Chamber Concert Impressions of Paris Week 2 ($29.00)

Maurice Ravel, Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques (Arr. Salzedo)

Camille Saint-Saëns, Romance, Op. 34

Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro

Gabriel Fauré, La bonne chanson

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. **

Main Concert Inside the Music: French Beginning to End Week 2 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

Guillaume de Machaut, Gloria from Messe de Nostre Dame

Anonymous, Estampie Royal

Josquin des Pres, Kyrie from Misse Sine Nomine

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Suite from Le bourgeois gentilhomme   

J.S. Bach, Cantata Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61

Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Joseph Canteloube, Lou Coucut and Bailero from Songs of the Auvergne

Francis Poulenc, Clic, Clac, dansez sabots and Chanson à boire

Léo Delibes, “Sous le dôme épais” from Lakmé

Georges Bizet, Prelude and Duet “Au fond du temple saint” from The Pearl Fishers

Excerpts from Carmen Entr’acte to Act III, Chorus – A deux cuartos!, March and Chorus from Act IV – Les Voici

Wed, Jul 24
Chamber Concert Rivalry and Ridicule: Lully, Charpentier and the "Italian" Controversy Week 2 ($29.00)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, La Nuit 

Excerpt from Epitaphium Carpentarii

Tout cède aux doucers de mes accords charmants!

La Musique from Les plaisirs de Versailles

Scene from Le Sicilien

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Intermedio de la musica francese è la musica italiana

Robert De Visée, Entrée d’Apollon, Les sourdines d’Armide, and Air

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Passacaille d’Armide

J.S. Bach, Ouverture from Partita in D Major

Georg Muffat, Passacaglia

 

** This event was previous called 'Treasures of the French Baroque' in previous printed materials. **

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. **
Chamber Concert Twilight Mozart Week 2 ($39.00)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Hoffmeister” Quartet, K. 499

Clarinet Quintet, K. 581

Main Concert Founders Concert at the Carmel Mission Week 2 ($85/$70)

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Dominus regnavit

J.S. Bach, Cantata O ewiges Feuer, BWV 34

Gabriel Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine

J.S. Bach, Der Geist hilft, BWV 226

James Macmillan, Factus est repente

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Cantique des cantiques

Thu, Jul 25
Adams Vocal Master Class Open Session (Free)

Observe first-hand the four Virginia Best Adams Master Class Fellows as they prepare for their showcase performance on July 27. The participants will be guided and coached by VBA Director David Gordon and the 2013 Bach Festival vocal soloists. 

Teacher: Andrew Megill
Soloist: TBD
Keyboardist: Michael Beattie

Chamber Concert Melodies Francaises Week 2 ($29.00)

** Please note: This concert was originally titled "Berlioz, Chausson and Poulenc Songs". The program content is the same. **

Reynaldo Hahn, À Chloris, Quand je fus pris au pavillon, and L’Énamourée

Ernst Chausson, Le colibri, Le charme, Les papillons from Sept melodies

Sérénade from Quatre melodies

Sérénade Italienne from Sept melodies

Francis Poulenc, Chansons villageoises

 Chanson du clair tamis

 Les gars qui vont à la fête

 C’est le joli printemps

 Le Mendiant

 Chanson de la fille frivole

 Le retour du sergent

Hector Berlioz, Sur les lagunes and Le spectre de la rose from Les nuits d’été

Kurt Weill, French Cabaret Songs

Complainte de la Seine

Je ne t’aime pas

Youkali

 

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. **
Chamber Concert Bach in the Cathedral Week 2 ($39.00)

Arcangelo Corelli, Sonata for Trumpet and Strings

J.S. Bach, Harpsichord Concerto in G Minor, BWV 1058

Cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51

Main Concert Stephen Prutsman Plays Bach … and more! Week 2 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

J.C Bach, Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 7, No. 5

Stephen Prutsman, Two Jazz Piano Etudes (Shadows and Dog)

Darius Milhaud, La création du monde

J.S. Bach, French Suite No. 5 in G Major and Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053

Fri, Jul 26
Chamber Concert Music from Salons & Brothels Week 2 ($29.00)

Chrisoph Gluck, Ouverture d’Iphingenie

Fernando Sor, Introduction and Funeral March from Fantasie élégiaque

Mauro Giuliani, Maestoso from Op. 25

Franz Schubert, Six Waltzes from D. 365

Robert Schumann, Abendlied from Op. 85

Julian Aracas, Introduction, Tango and Danza Americana

Sebastian Iradier, La Paloma

Manuel de Falla, Tombeau pour Debussy - Homanaje

Astor Piazzola, L’histoire du Tango

Brodel, Café, Night Club

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. ** 

Chamber Concert Beethoven's Brio Week 2 ($29.00)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Oboe Quartet, K. 370

Giuseppe Cambini, Variations on “La Marseillaise”

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 1

** This event is eligible for the ‘Pick 5’ package price. Please call the Box
Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. ** 

Main Concert Concert Fantastique Week 2 ($76/$70/$55/$40)

Jean-Philippe Rameau, Suite: Les Boréades

Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin

Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique

Sat, Jul 27
Chamber Concert Parisian Matinee Concertante Week 2 ($31.00)

J.C. Bach, Symphonie Concertante for Two Flutes, Two Violins and Cello in D Major

Chevalier de Saint-Georges (le Mozart Noir), Violin Concerto, Op. Posthumous

François Devienne, Flute Concerto

François Joseph Gossec, Symphony in D Major, "Pastorella"

Franz Josef Haydn, Symphony No. 85 in B-flat Major, "La Reine”



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Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
more information. **
Virginia Best Adams Masterclass Showcase ($27.00)

 

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Office during ticketing hours (10AM to 4PM Monday through Friday) for
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Main Concert Best of the Fest Concert ($128/$118/$98)
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