UMHB Christmas Gala Concert Jewels of the Season Nov 30, 2008
Highlights of the program will feature 100-combined voices in Alice Parkers Masters in This Hall, some of the choral/orchestral classics of the holiday season Gustav Holsts Christmas Day, Mack Wilbergs Away in a Manger and I Saw Three Ships; less familiar but equally exciting Vaclav Nelhybels Estampie Natalis, along with an orchestral arrangement of Greensleeves by renowned composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Music faculty member Matt... (KWTX.com, TX)
Out & About: Roundup of holiday concerts Nov 28, 2008
In addition, the Society's festive program will include "On Christmas Night" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as pieces by George Chadwick, Richard Purvis, and Healy Willan. Tickets, available at the door and from RCS members, are $12; $8 for seniors and students. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Richard Hickox, doyen of British conductors, dies aged 60 Nov 25, 2008
He was in the midst of final rehearsals for English National Opera s new production of Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the composer whose music he did so much to revive. The show will open on Thursday conducted by Edward Gardner. (Times Online)
Obituaries in the news Nov 25, 2008
Hickox had been scheduled to conduct the new English National Opera production of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Riders to the Sea," which opens on Thursday. He was musical director of Opera Australia, associate guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, founder and music director of the City of London Sinfonia, co-director of the period instrument group Collegium Musicum 90, and conductor emeritus of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. (Anchorage Daily News)
More of this story Nov 22, 2008
HODIE (This Day) by Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Chorus of Westerly will present "HODIE"(This Day), Ralph Vaughan Williams' inspirational celebration of Christmas, at the George Kent Performance Hall, 119 High St., Westerly, on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. The passing of this great British composer and the creation of the Chorus of Westerly occurred fifty years ago and both will be honored with this performance. Tickets range in price from 14-35 and are available at the box office,... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Rise & inspire Nov 21, 2008
Ralph Vaughan Williams Hodie ( This Day ) is the very model of a British Christmas oratorio, with Vaughan Williams signature folk melodies accompanying some of the finest seasonal English poetry ... Ralph Vaughan Williams (his first name is pronounced Rafe, like Rafe Rackstraw in H.M.S. Pinafore or the actor Ralph Fiennes) was born in 1872 in the Cotswold village of Down Ampney ... That sense of the miraculous in life, nature and the divine permeates much of Ralph Vaughan Williams choral music,... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Central Iowa Wind Ensemble to give free performance Sunday Nov 15, 2008
"Our big featured number, I guess you would say, is our closing number, the 'Star Wars Trilogy,' which everyone is probably familiar with." The performance will also include "Four Scottish Dances" by Malcolm Arnold, "Psalm 42" arranged by Samuel Hazo, "Flourish for Wind Band" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, "El Camino Real" by Alfred Reed and "Suite of Old American Dances" by Robert Russell Bennett. Following the concert, there will be a reception hosted by the Boone Municipal Band where audience... (Mid Iowa Enterprise, IA)
Northern Michigan Brass Band to perform in East Jordan Nov 15, 2008
Now in its 10th year of operation, this 30- piece, British-style ensemble will perform a program of brass band music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Giuseppi Verdi, Max Reger, Henry Fillmore, John Philip Sousa, Neal Hefti, W.E. Moyle, Meredith Wilson, Johannes Hanssen, E.E. Bagley and The Beatles. Admission is 10 for adults and 8 for students and senior citizens. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Chorus opens 50th season with Vaughn Williams Hodie Nov 14, 2008
The Chorus of Westerly will sing its first concert of its landmark 50th Season, Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 4 and 6 p.m. Larry St. Pierre/SunPhotos WESTERLY The Chorus of Westerly, under the direction of George Kent, will sing its first concert of its landmark 50th Season, Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 4 and 6 p.m. The concert will feature the Boston Festival Orchestra and soloists Paula Rockwell, Bryan Register and William Sharp and will... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Religion Notes (Nov. 12) Nov 11, 2008
They will perform the music of Benjamin Britten, Franz Joseph Haydn and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Preacher is Norman J. Faramelli. (Newton Tab, MA)
Recital to kick off tuba festival Oct 3, 2008
"Everything is classically oriented. [The program includes] Marcello, romantic pieces, one movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' tuba concerto, an aria by Puccini. ... It really does vary," Brown said. There will also be original compositions and variations of other pieces performed. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Northwestern Jazz and Concert Band performances open to public Oct 3, 2008
Songs on the playlist include Casey at the Bat, by Randol Alan Bass, with narration by Kyle Newland, Blackwell sophomore; As Summer Was Just Beginning (Song for James Dean), by Larry Daehn; Sea Songs, by Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Walking Frog, by Karl King; Snakes. by Thomas Duffy; and Flight of the Bumblebee, by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Albert O. Davis. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
Vernon Handley, 77, conductor and champion of British music Sep 12, 2008
Of the 150 recordings Mr. Handley made with various orchestras, more than 90 were of British music from the likes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Robert Simpson, Granville Bantock, and Arnold Bax. Mr. Handley was a protege of Adrian Boult, whose restrained gestures on the podium influenced Handley's own style. (Boston Globe)
Singing Rhenium Trader Lipmann Knows Why $11,100 a Kilo Prevents Lost Fuel Aug 20, 2008
He said he favors Shakespeare and other British artists, such as composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet Wilfred Owen. Once, before a private audience, Lipmann performed a song by the American Tom Lehrer, which replaces the lyrics of a Gilbert and Sullivan tune with all the known elements. (Bloomberg)
Proper tribute to Vaughan Williams' wives Jul 19, 2008
The vitriol expended by your reviewer on the Radio 4 programme which Julian Lloyd Webber and I made to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams is baffling. We stand accused of being slaves to the opinions of RVW's mistress, then second wife (and biographer) Ursula, to the detriment of his first wife, Adeline; that there was "no sympathy for ... Adeline, who was cast as the cold-hearted problem". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Beyond 'cow-pat': Ralph Vaughan Williams's complex legacy Jul 15, 2008
Beyond 'cow-pat': Ralph Vaughan Williams's complex legacy - International Herald Tribune. Dudley Styles/EMI Classics Archives New releases by Ralph Vaughan Williams, above, are planned ... Beyond 'cow-pat': Ralph Vaughan Williams's complex legacy. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Goddess and Rita Angus Jul 14, 2008
The work features a portrait of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who had been a teacher of Angus s close friend Douglas Lilburn and who composed a well-known cantata on the theme of peace. In the painting, mini-scenes seem to evoke Angus as a child, and the commune near Nelson where, as a dissenting pacifist during the war, she spent time apple-picking. (Suite101.com)
Orchestra serenades mothers May 12, 2008
Following Beethoven was a collection of English folk songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams. A group of young violin students under the direction of teachers Lois Omonde and Dawn Pooser then displayed their talents by playing Go Tell Aunt Rhody and Long, Long Ago, two American folk songs. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Concerto celebrates wind turbine May 5, 2008
In the second movement, easily the best of the three, Hindson s language wanders into the neighborhood of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Arnold Bax, and seems to like it there. He writes some very attractive, gently melancholy melodies and passages in a bid to express some of the abandonment felt in Westerway, which according to Hindson s notes is a logging town left desolate by the end of timber operations nearby. (The Palm Beach Post)
Music Review: Terfel woos Zellerbach crowd Apr 20, 2008
There were non-nautical offerings by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Roger Quilter, in which Terfel's energy and interpretive zeal alleviated the pastoral blandness that can sometimes afflict this repertoire. In particular, Terfel's performance of Quilter's "Go, lovely Rose" was so jaw-droppingly beautiful that the audience could only sit in transfixed silence when it was over. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lengthy 'Wind' blows into West End Apr 19, 2008
Theatrical talking point of the season, however, may be "Riders to the Sea," by England's Ralph Vaughan Williams, who died 50 years ago. An adaptation of the one-act play by Irish dramatist J.M. Synge, the production features the operatic debut of Fiona Shaw. (Variety)
Manly, yes, but hauntingly tender too Apr 17, 2008
After these, two songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Roadside Fire, to verse of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the ineffable Silent Noon, one of the great love songs, to the poem of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Finally, we heard four songs by the disarming miniaturist Roger Quilter, opening with the poignant setting of Tennyson's Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
WBU band to perform concert on the lawn Monday 04-13-2008 Apr 13, 2008
The wind ensemble will perform Sea Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Irish Washerwoman by Leroy Anderson, Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre, Amazing Grace by Frank Ticheli, The Patriot by John Williams and Circus Days by K.L. King. The jazz ensemble will perform three numbers: 25 or 6 to 4, Chicago Bound, and The Nearness of You. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
The Tardis prepares to land at BBC Proms Apr 10, 2008
This year s programme will also celebrate the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams on the 50th anniversary of the English composer s death. There are also numerous new works, including 11 BBC commissions. (Times Online)
Pomp & Circumstance, and Daleks - a Who's who of this year's Proms Apr 10, 2008
Setting out his first season as the director of the festival, Roger Wright, who is also the controller of BBC Radio 3, announced the Proms' first ever free concert, which will feature a mix of folk songs arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger, and folk music from Romania, Carpathia, and Moldova. Folk Day will see a maypole and morris dancers in Kensington Gardens, and a family event in which the public will be invited to learn English folk songs. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Symphony of sound Apr 10, 2008
Not many, however, have used the chorus as Ralph Vaughan Williams does in A Sea Symphony. Here, as the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus showed in the second of two performances at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas last Saturday, the chorus was an insistent presence, as integral to the work as the music was. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Slow progress for a music pilgrim's opera Mar 27, 2008
If you were very lucky you might find yourself having a cup of tea after a concert in the new Festival Hall while the doyen of British composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, then nearly 80 and one of the most assiduous concertgoers in the city, sat slumped over a neighbouring table looking like a large, shaggy English sheepdog and discussing the concert and the world of music. He seemed benign but it was known he had a quick temper and that if you pronounced his first name as Ralph instead of Rafe... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
PCCA kicks off 2008 campaign Mar 22, 2008
Included in their program will be Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy pieces plus Leonard Bernstein melodies from "West Side Story" and Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on Greensleeves.". Post-holiday fare opens the evening of Feb. 6 with "Just Friends," featuring Jimmy Martin and Dee Noah. (Pratt Tribune, KS)
TONY BLAIR TO TEACH AT YALE... Mar 8, 2008
Professor Blair: former British PM to take up Yale position. Professor Blair: former British PM to take up Yale position. (The Drudge Report)
Elton John feels the love in Kitchener Mar 7, 2008
Friday, March 07, 2008. CONCERT REVIEW TheStar. (Toronto Star)
Beat machine mars Steve Earle's Toronto show Mar 7, 2008
Documentary on Ralph Vaughan Williams presents a portrait as rich and deep as his varied body of work. TheStar. (Toronto Star)
MSU to perform Mar 5, 2008
The group will perform Flourish for Wind Band by Ralph Vaughan Williams, As Summer was Just Beginning, by Larry Daehn, Chorale and Shaker Dance by John Zdechlik and National Emblem by E.E. Bagley. Comments. (Sulphur Southwest Daily News, LA)
Cadence Weapon makes waves in indie rap world Mar 4, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008. Alberta's rising rapper keeps references close to home with Afterparty Babies Mar 02, 2008 04:30 AM FISH GRIWKOWSKY Special to the Star. (Toronto Star)
Tax credit changes are ominous for local film industry Mar 1, 2008
Saturday, March 01, 2008. ARTS FUNDING TheStar. (Toronto Star)
West Hartford Symphony Orchestra to hold sixth annual classical concert Feb 29, 2008
The concert will include classic symphonic works from Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Magnificat," "The Peasant Chorus" from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," "The Witches' Chorus" from Verdi's "Macbeth," and Bach's "Passacaglia in C minor." Additionally the orchestra will be playing a rarely performed piece by Kalinnikov's called "Symphony #1." "Kalinnikov's Symphony is strictly orchestral," said music director and founder of the non-profit orchestra Richard Chiarappa. Kalinnikov was a Russian composer... (West Hartford News, CT)
Spice Girls wrap up reunion tour in Toronto Feb 27, 2008
SPECIAL Documentary on Ralph Vaughan Williams presents a portrait as rich and deep as his varied body of work. Star readers correctly picked four of the winners in the top six Oscar categories, but missed in the best actress and best supporting actress. (Toronto Star)
Producer cancels North American premiere of Ha'penny Bridge Feb 22, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008. Feb 21, 2008 04:30 AM theatre critic. (Toronto Star)
Moses Goes Simpler Feb 20, 2008
"Hush" is a love duet to Ralph Vaughan Williams' pastoral "The Lark Ascending," danced Sunday by Wells and Brendan Barthel, an important new addition to the company. "Hush's" beauty arises from the contrast between Williams' prettiness and Moses' unpretty, yet tender, steps - Wells bent over so that Barthel steps on her back - that freeze on the musical surges. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
DVD review: Michael Clayton Feb 20, 2008
SPECIAL Documentary on Ralph Vaughan Williams presents a portrait as rich and deep as his varied body of work. Daniel Day-Lewis for best actor and the Coen brothers as best directors are the runaway favourites so far in our Oscar poll. (Toronto Star)
What's On: Galleries Feb 17, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008. Feb 14, 2008 04:30 AM. (Toronto Star)
Nutmeg Symphony looks to build community during 2008 season Jan 25, 2008
With that in mind, the symphony's first concert, Winter Winds" on Feb. 9 will include students from several area high schools, including Farmington, Torrington, Bristol Eastern and Bristol Central. The students will play three pieces with the wind section of the symphony - "Abram's Pursuit" by David Holsinger, "Folk Song Suite" by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Elliot Del Borgo's "Adagio for Winds. " "This affords the students to do accomplished pieces and gain that professional experience," Brown... (Farmington Valley Post, CT)
Sunday series pulls out all the stops Jan 4, 2008
for Organ and Strings); J. S. Bach's "Three Schubler Chorales"; Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending"; J. S. Bach's "Organ Chorale Prelude, Komm, Heiliger Geist"; Handel's Concerto in F Major; and Antonin Dvorak's "Bagatelles for Two Violins, Cello and Harmonium (or Piano).". Both the Williams and Dvorak pieces are significant, Mutchnik says, because they were requested by members of the Sundays at Three audience. (Columbia Flier, MD)
The readers' editor on ... the BBC, the filmmaker and a bogus letter Dec 24, 2007
Palmer, angry at the state of arts commissioning in public service broadcasting, had read out the letter to an audience at the Barbican at the premiere of his new film on Ralph Vaughan Williams, a film the BBC apparently felt did not 'fit its remit', but if 'Mr V Williams had an important premiere in the future' he was to let them know. The composer died in 1958. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Our national love of tackiness is killing culture Dec 10, 2007
Viewers won't be seeing Tony Palmer's acclaimed film about the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. That goes out at noon on Five on New Year's Day. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Review: British music played sans a stiff upper lip Dec 3, 2007
Saturday night, the Montclaire String Quartets richly detailed concert of music by the English composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge and William Walton (plus one of Haydns late quartets) swept those notions aside, revealing three strikingly different works. Well, Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet (1912) began with a viola solo, played tenderly by Sandra Armstrong Groce, that sounded unmistakably modal, folklike and rustic, and those qualities connected its four movements. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
URI offers a cornucopia of holiday music, starting Dec. 7 Dec 1, 2007
The two ensembles will combine to perform "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" by Ralph Vaughan Williams with baritone Rene de la Garza, a member of the voice faculty at URI, as featured soloist, and "And the Glory of the Lord" (from Handel s "Messiah") along with what Danis calls "a smashing holiday finale.". On Sunday at 3 p.m., the URI Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Small Brass Ensemble will perform. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Go & Do - Portsmouth area events Nov 24, 2007
For the holiday concerts, Dr. Wing has selected "Hodie," a very special work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the foremost British composer of the first half of the 20th century. The remainder of the program features British composers of the second half of the 20th century, either as arrangers of traditional carols or as composers of original works in the carol style. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
R. Vaughan Williams, All-English Nov 18, 2007
Brief biography of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, his life, influence and list of major works - symphonies, tone poems, sacred music and operas. Ralph Vaughan Williams is best known for his deep love of the English countryside, English history, art and literature, all expressed in his music. (Suite101.com)
Things to do today Nov 9, 2007
Program includes Leonard Bernsteins Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherazade. With the West Virginia Symphony Chorus. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Gustav Holst and The Planets Nov 6, 2007
He studied at the Royal college of Music in London and met Ralph Vaughan Williams and they became lifelong best friends. Although he suffered from Neuritis in one of his hands and had a very poor eyesight, these afflictions did not prevent him from pursuing his music career. (Suite101.com)
Diana memorial: order of service Aug 31, 2007
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor - Johann Sebastian Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor - Johann Sebastian Bach La Rejouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks) - George Frideric Handel Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber Serenade for Strings (Second and Third movements) - Edward Elgar Bouree (Music for the Royal Fireworks) - George Frideric Handel Pieds en l'Air (Capriol Suite) - Peter Warlock Larghetto from London Concerto No 4 for Organ and Strings - Johann Christian Bach Touch Her Soft Lips and... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Summer magic Jun 3, 2007
On Saturday, the Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival performs at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, presenting a program described as "An English Musical Renaissance." It begins with Henry Purcell's Variations on One Note, as well as music by Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Phantasy Quintet. A reception follows the performance. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
English Composer Sir Edward Elgar Jun 2, 2007
He foreshadowed the English composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten. English composer Edward William Elgar (June 2, 1857 February 23, 1934) was born in Broadheath near Worcester. (Suite101.com)
Community Events Calendar May 8, 2007
Onion River Chorus celebrates the resurgence of English choral music in the twentieth century with a program featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem on Saturday at 8 PM at the Barre Universalist Church ... Onion River Chorus celebrates the resurgence of English choral music in the twentieth century with a program featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem on Sunday at 7 PM at the Montpelier Unitarian Church. (WCAX.com, VT)
Pro Cantare sings out for a big 3-0 May 5, 2007
The second piece on the program, English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' 1938 "Serenade to Music" will soothe the ears with its lyricism. And the third piece is contemporary Czech composer Karel Rudicka's 1991 "Celebration Jazz Mass," with Rudicka, his saxophone-playing son, Karel Jr., and a jazz ensemble coming to Columbia to perform. (Columbia Flier, MD)
Why are continental cucumbers wrapped in plastic? Apr 29, 2007
There are Easter carols, examples of which can be found in the Oxford Book of Carols, first published in 1928 with Ralph Vaughan Williams as one of the compilers. An excellent explanation of the history and use of carols for the whole of the church's year is found in the preface. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Faces of the week Apr 14, 2007
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. The Lark Ascending, by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, is Britain's favourite piece of classical music according to a poll conducted by Classic FM. The homage to the English countryside, with its fluttering violin representing the flight of the lark, was written at the start of World War I. It was inspired by a poem of the same name by George Meredith. (BBC News -- UK)
British List 'Lark Ascending' Top Classic Apr 11, 2007
Topping the charts for the London-based radio station's listeners is British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending," a 1914 piece known for its violin solo, The Times of London reported Tuesday. Edward Elgar's "Cello Concerto" placed second, followed by Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No. 2," Wolfgang Mozart's "Clarinet Concerto" and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No. 5.". (Playfuls.com)
New York sees first death sentence passed for 50 years Apr 10, 2007
Ralph Vaughan Williams s The Lark Ascending topped a Classic FM poll. The cynicism of the Iranian leader s lip-service to Easter and forgiveness should not need underlining. (Yahoo News -- Death Penalty)
Slick tricks bring Scott's heroics to life Mar 26, 2007
Ralph Vaughan Williams incorporated material from his score for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic into Symphony No. 7 Sinfonia Antarctica. Using extracts from Scott's journals and images by photographer Herbert Ponting to accompany the music, Wilson has taken the symphony back to its cinematic source in depicting the tragic and heroic journey of Scott's expedition. (The Australian)
Boonville Silver Pirate Band celebrates Thespian Hall's 150th anniversary with free public concert Mar 22, 2007
The Symphonic Band will perform arch from Folk Song Suite, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and anfare and Dance Segments by Roland Barret. Both bands will play the final two numbers together to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Thespian Hall. (Boonville Daily News, MO)
In Concert: Dean & Britta Mar 19, 2007
British pianist John Lill will make his ISO debut this week, performing Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in a concert also featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4. ISO Music Director Mario Venzago will conduct. (Indianapolis Star)
Arts in Brief Mar 6, 2007
Those who attend should expect a repertoire of music from the baroque period, such as Bach, and more contemporary music such as composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students and are available by calling 863-0255. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Pops concert is Sunday Feb 16, 2007
The Symphonic and Concert bands will present music of composers Robert W. Smith, Pierre Leemans, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Barnes Chance, James Curnow and Paul Lavender. The who will perform marches and "light" concert music, featuring the Disney music to laddin. (Pontiac Daily Leader, IL)
More of this story Jan 10, 2007
To round out the concert, Martin has chosen a piece by British composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, erenade to Music, that will feature members of the voice faculty at Texas State as well as the Chorale. Comments or Questions. (Altus Times, OK)
