VOLUME 41 ~ ISSUE 4 ISSUED 4 TIMES PER YEAR October/december 2011 WYSU presents County Mayo Folk Festival Concert2011 J oin WYSU on Friday, November 4 at the Lemon Grove Café from 6:30–9:00 pm as we present County Mayo for the 2011 Folk Festival Concert. Bill Davis, Marcy Dubec, Bill Lewis and Ted Miller make up County Mayo. Bill Davis comes from a long line of singers and musicians. As a child, he and his sisters staged elaborate musical shows in their parents’ kitchen. While serving in the navy, he learned to play the guitar and developed a strong love for traditional ballads (which he sang with gusto.) His skills with the , mandolin and fiddle were acquired later. Bill played in The Shanachies for a time. He now sings leads and harmonies. Marcy Meiers grew up listening to her mother’s a County Mayo capella singing and her father’s guitar-accompanied ballads. She played the concert flute as a child and was At the age of two, Ted Miller would sing to visitors a member of the Warren, Ohio Jr. Military Band. At a and relatives who came to the family home. He would Wolfe Tones concert she attended in high school years listen when the adults gathered around the piano for a she became enchanted by the complexity, strength and song at family gatherings. At parochial school he learned beauty of traditional Irish reels, hornpipes and songs. She all of the Irish American songs that were sung on St. taught herself to play the tin whistle and the bodhran and Patrick’s Day. In later years, he developed a taste for folk studied music at Gormanston College in Ireland. While music, but a particular love for the more traditional Irish attending Youngstown State University she became a ballads and a knack for the sea shanties and humorous founding member of The Shanachies. song. He has a versatile, powerful baritone voice, which Bill Lewis studied orchestral brass and woodwind is perfectly suited to every type of Irish song. instruments in grade school, but was always drawn to The members of County Mayo search through other musical forms, from blues to jazz, to country, swing dusty old library stacks, pour over old Please and folk—an attraction that proved irresistible. French tomes, listen to old recordings and renew now… work with older traditional musicians horn and trumpet gave way to guitar, banjo, mandolin to support WYSU and fiddle. Sousa and Schubert surrendered to Pete in their search for rare and unusual programming, and for Seeger, the Kingston Trio and the Clancy Brothers. Bill versions of songs. They frequently continued shorter fund has played in several folk groups in the Eastern Ohio (continued on page 7) drives. Call 330.941.1481, region. wysu.org or use the form in this newsletter. WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz

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or more than 40 years WYSU has provided quality programming to its Flisteners, including the finest in jazz, classical and , news from NPR, LOOK and diverse and educational programming covering an array of pertinent subjects. Recently WYSU created a forum for community leaders to come together to discuss global and national issues, many of vital concern to the area. WYSU’s OUT Looking Out approaches issues from often unexplored angles, where a moderator and panelists sit in a round-table configuration for a frank but respectful exchange of ideas. FOR Under the guidance of WYSU director Gary Sexton and associate director David Luscher, station intern John D. Matthews is the program researcher and associate producer for Looking Out. With topic material covering subjects such as LOOKING ecology, economy, foreign policy and education, the show’s format and approach gives new life to finding solutions, with content that is geared toward overturning the proverbial stone on a path less traveled. OUT! The host and moderator is Dr. George McCloud, Youngstown State University professor of communication, who has had extensive experience in foreign relations and journalism. Panelists for Looking Out include Youngstown City Clerk of Courts Sarah Brown-Clark, Dr. Paul Sracic, chair of YSU’s Political Science Department, and Andrea Wood, founder and publisher of The Business Journal. You can hear the show Friday nights at 7:00 pm with an encore on Monday evenings at 7:30 pm. All shows will be archived and available on the station’s web- site, http://wysu.org/focus.php.

Saying Goodbyeto Tom Zocolo om Zocolo’s interest in electronics predates his for us, we lost Tom’s position in this year’s budget cuts, but recollections.T His mother says that as a toddler, Tom we won’t be entirely without his talents. He can usually removed the backs from the televisions in the house to be found (at almost any hour) at the 58-year-old WKBN watch the glowing tubes. Fortunately, he was already bright complex, where WYSU’s main transmitter resides, and he enough to stay away from things that could hurt him, and has always been generous with his assistance. We wish Tom he’s managed to stay out of serious trouble all of these years. all the best! Tom’s affiliation with WYSU began as a student board operator in the late ’70s while he was studying electrical engineering at Youngstown State University. In 1987 he accepted the title of assistant chief engineer, a part-time position he held for almost 25 years. Tom’s professional journey has been a circuitous one. He served as chief engineer for Mahoning Valley Cablevision, worked as an independent contract engineer, was involved in a family business, and for the past 13 years has held the full-time job of chief engineer for the ABC/CBS/Fox TV complex. One of his most impressive contributions there was to successfully combine all of the television services into one central location at the WKBN broadcast site, a feat that won accolades from management. Tom has given WYSU years of faithful service, and has always been ready to share his vast expertise whenever needed. We sincerely thank him for all of his invaluable help; we are the richer for it. Unfortunately Tom “catching the vibes” at Stonehenge.

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Make your memories at…STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM! Sun. Oct. 9 Organ Concert w/Thomas Murray Fri. Oct. 14 StambaughChorus “Night at the Races” Mon. Oct. 17 YSU Dana School of Music Concert Sun. Oct. 23 Monday Musical Club Little River Band Concert Sat. Oct. 29 Organ Series w/Todd Wilson/Movie/Halloween contest Wed. Nov. 2 Pillars/Dillard’s Fashion Show Fri. Nov. 11 Opera Western Reserve’s Tosca Sat. Nov. 19 Ohio Music Education Association performances Sun. Nov. 20 Sundays at Stambaugh Mon. Nov. 21 YSU Dana School of Music Concert Wed. Nov. 30 StambaughYouth Concert Band Winter Concert Sat. Dec. 3 Monday Musical ClubAbbamania/Night Fever Tribute Wed. Dec. 7 YSU Dana S of M Carols & Cocoa/Holiday Concert Sun. Dec. 11 StambaughChorus Holiday Concert 330-747-5175 www.stambaughauditorium.com

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Help WYSU meet its fundraising goal, or 30 years, WYSU has been holding our semi-annual fund drivesF down to just 7 days, and we’ve always managed Make Your Fall to reach our goals. Other stations go 10 days, 2 weeks or more, and their drives just seem to get longer and more frequent. Contribution Today! Well, we’re out to reverse that trend. Instead of looking for ways to lengthen our drives, we’ve set our sights on shortening them. Again this fall, our fund drive will span just 72 hours—from Tuesday afternoon, October 18th, through Friday, October 21st. And in that time we hope to raise $115,000. It sounds daunting, but you’ve risen to every single challenge so far, and we know you will this time, too. How can you help? By making your fall contribution today! Please complete the contribution form below, and mail it, along with your check or credit card information to: WYSU-FM • One University Plaza • Youngstown, OH 44555

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Next June you’re invited to enjoy a spectacular visit to Vienna, Budapest, Prague and Salzburg!

In Prague, discover why this beautiful city is known as the City of One Hundred Spires as you admire the soaring Gothic vaults of St. Vitus Cathedral and the many other surrounding medieval castles. You’ll also spend time in the Old Town, walking in the footsteps of Kafka and Dvorak. An optional three extra days in Salzburg, Mozart’s birthplace, offers the opportunity for an elegant dinner with live music, and a trip through the Bavarian Alps to visit the Eagle’s Nest, a mountaintop lodge built for Hitler’s 50th birthday. You’ll also see many familiar sites from The Sound of Music. A basic tour price of around $3700 includes • Round trip airfare on a major carrier • A full-service, bi-lingual tour director • A private deluxe motor coach for ground transportation in Europe • Lovely accommodations with a private bath or shower Barbara Krauss working off her tour fare in Italy. in convenient, centrally-located hotels • Daily buffet breakfasts and three 3-course dinners, beer and wine included J oin us for the next WYSU station-sponsored tour as we • Guided sightseeing and entrance fees to select sights as experience the elegance, mystique and beauty of Vienna, described in the itinerary Budapest and Prague, plus the chance to spend three additional nights in Salzburg! Spaces are limited so please don’t wait! Call or write me, In June of 2012, WYSU-FM and Go Ahead Tours of Barbara Krauss, for a free detailed brochure. Boston invite you to immerse yourself in the stunning 330-941-3363 or [email protected] beauty of three major European capitals. Cobbled streets, If travel in 2012 isn’t in your plans, keep us in mind for magnificent castles, and majestic mountains and rivers grace 2013 when we’ll be exploring Ancient Peru and Machu this beautiful and under-explored region of Central Europe. Picchu! Experience first-hand places that have evoked glorious works from composers like Haydn, Mozart, Smetana and Liszt, while you marvel at the modern beauty and sophistication that each city offers to today’s visitors. We’ll take in the opulent architecture of Budapest, including its gold and bejeweled Parliament Building, modeled after London’s Westminster Palace, Discount Offer for WYSU Members and ascend the imposing Castle Like you, Park Vista Retirement Community, the Mahoning Valley’s only Hill for a fabulous view of the Continuing Care Accredited organization, is a friend of WYSU and believes in Royal Palace. supporting this wonderful asset to our community. In Vienna, enjoy a cruise down Because of the special relationship we share, we are extending an offer to WYSU members. If you are considering retirement options for yourself or a 1216 Fifth Avenue the legendary Danube River and loved one, ask about the opportunity to save up to $200 off per month for 6 (330) 746-2944 www.parkvista.oprs.org take a ride on the Prater Ferris months or $2,500 off the entrance fee* for Independent Living and Assisted Wheel, which offers a spectacular Living.** For more information, or to schedule a tour, please contact Josie Polis panoramic view of the city and the at 330-746-2944, Ext. 1550. surrounding countryside, nestled at Up to (*Subject to meeting admissions criteria, and **currently not receiving Medicare covered services. the foot of the Austrian Alps. This offer may be discontinued at any time.) in savings$ 2,500

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Join Barbara on Note onSUMMER Vienna, Budapest, READING love read- Iing Cormac and Prague McCarthy, but I couldn’t make DEPARTURE DATE: DEPARTURE DATE: Join Barbara on JUNE 11, 2012 my goal of all 10 novels this summer. JUNE 11, 2012 As great as the novels are individually, 11-day tour includes: 11-DAY TOUR INCLUDES: their collective unrelenting bleakness • Round-trip air transportation • Round-tripwith a major airline air and and nonchalant violence got to be too transportationairport transfers with a Vienna, Budapest, • The services of a Go Ahead much. I’ll finish them off during the major airline and airport Tour Director transfers winter when I really need something • A licensed local city guide • • The Accommodations services of in a Go cheery. In the meantime, I’ve been Aheadwell-located Tour hotels Director • All hotel service charges and digging into The Monkey Wrench Gang and Prague • Atips, licensed baggage local handling city and guide local taxes by Edward Abbey and The Greater • • Accommodations Buffet breakfast daily and in well- Journey: Americans in Paris by David locatedselect other hotels meals • Private motorcoach McCullough. The Greater Journey • All hotel service charges DEPARTURE• Guided sightseeing DATE: and andentrance tips, fees baggage to select sights is an engaging backdoor history of JUNE 11,•handling Go Ahead 2012 travel and gift local and taxes 19th-Century United States, and Paris, membership in our World • BuffetTraveler breakfast Club, which includesdaily and through the eyes and experience of selectcredit toward other your meals next tour 11-day tour• Visit Schonbrunn includes: Palace American artists (Morris, Healey, Cas- • Private motor coach • See The Prague Castle sat, Whistler), writers (Cooper, Stowe), • Round-trip• Guided air transportationsightseeing and with a majorentrance airline fees andto select doctors (Holmes, Sr.), politicians sights (Sumner), inventors (Morris) and For more information airport transfers • The services• Go Ahead of a travel Go Ahead gift and others lucky enough to have extended contact Barbara Krauss: Tour Directormembership in our World Traveler Club, which educational residencies in Paris. Who (330) 941-3363 • A licensedincludes local credit city guide toward knew anyone important went to Paris • Accommodationsyour next tour in after Franklin and Jefferson and before [email protected] well-located• Visit Schonbrunn hotels Palace Hemingway and Stein! —Gary • All hotel• See service The Prague charges Castle and http://wysu-barbarakrauss.grouptoursite.comtips, baggage handling and local taxes Call Go Ahead Tours today to save your spot• Buffet (800) breakfast 438-7672 daily and Space is Limited! select other meals • Private motorcoach • Guided sightseeing and entrance fees to select sights WYSU presents • Go Ahead travel gift and County Mayo membership in our World Traveler Club, which includes Folk Festival Concert2011credit toward your next tour • Visit Schonbrunn(continued Palace from page 1) • See The Prague Castle embellish shows with Australian or Scottish ballads. They consider themselves to be historians and researchers as much as musicians. WYSU is very excited to welcome County Mayo to this year’s Folk Festival For more informationConcert! As always, the concert is hosted by Charles Darling. It is a free event and for all ages. County Mayo will be performing on Friday, November 4 from contact Barbara Krauss:6:30–9:00 pm at the Lemon Grove Café on West Federal Street in downtown Youngstown. See you there! (330) 941-3363 October/December 2011 WYSU 12th note 7 [email protected] http://wysu-barbarakrauss.grouptoursite.com Call Go Ahead Tours today to save your spot (800) 438-7672 Space is Limited! WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz

12/31 Avant-garde. Mostly from the ’60s, stretching ears and boundaries as never before or since. 12/31 TBA. Folk Festival with Charles Darling Sunday, 8:00 pm 10/2 Roots Music, Part V. Traditionalists include Dock Boggs and Lightnin’ Hopkins, while early interpreters include the Carter Family and Brownie McGhee and Sony Terry. 10/9 Extended Sets, Part XXXVI. Covers three areas of folk music: country with Linda and Robin Williams, blues with Chris Smithers, and folk-rock with Tempest. 10/16 Fund Drive Preview. Due to the shortened fund drive, I won’t be live in the studio to take your requests and pledges, so this program thanks you for supporting folk music on WYSU. Features songs requested by listeners. 10/23 Brits and Yanks. Both sides of the Atlantic are represented, including Shirley Collins and . 10/30 Supernatural Tales. In time for Halloween is this collection of both magical and menacing tales with 11/12 Harry James. Swing-Era icon Steeleye Span, Roberts and Barrand, Now’s the Time on trumpet, and leader of formidable and Gordon Bok. with Martin Berger postwar bands. 11/6 Folk Sampler, Part CX. Saturday, 11:00 pm 11/19 Don Ewell. One of the finest Numerous artists including Judy 10/1 Nat Adderley. Cannonball’s second-generation pianists in the Collins, , Peter Paul & Mary, cornetist little brother, a wry, assertive traditional style. , and John Lee Hooker. performer. 11/26 Jimmy Noone. One of the 11/13 Country Cookin’, Part LXXXVI. 10/8 Sun Ra. Keyboards, composition, greatest of New Orleans clarinetists. Another batch of musical stew with extraterrestrial hoopla, and a lot of both traditional and contemporary 12/3 Yusef Lateef. Modern-jazz multi- powerful music. artists from Uncle Charlie Osborne to reed master (tenor, oboe and more). . 10/15 Gene Ammons. Unsurpassable 12/10 Pharoah Sanders. Intense soul tenor sax. 11/20 Moe Asch’s “Children.” The avant-garde saxophonist, more than a founder of Folkways Records left a 10/22 Arnett Cobb. Another, grittier Coltrane disciple. legacy of over 2000 albums, recorded tenor-sax juggernaut. 12/17 Elvin Jones. An astonishing by such singers as , 10/29 Jazz during the Second World modern drummer, including a newly- Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Ella Jenkins, War. The Traditional jazz movements, acquired early-’60s session with his Elizabeth Cotten, et al. with Bunk Johnson, Eddie Condon, et al. brothers. 11/27 Musical Bios. Stories of fictional 11/5 Jazz during the War. The 12/24 Buck Clayton and Bobby and real life persons, including John emergence of Modern jazz, with Bird, Hackett. Eloquent trumpeter and Henry, Buddy Holly, Hattie Carroll, Diz, et al. cornetist, offering a bit of serenity. Jack London, Nellie Bly, and more. 8 WYSU 12th note October/December 2011 WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz

12/4 Contemporary Folk, Part LII. 10/24 Gounod: Faust. Royal Opera 11/7 Menotti: The Medium, Saariaho: The amazing Will White is joined by House, Covent Garden; Evelino Pidò, Émilie. Spoleto Festival USA, Tamarack, The Traveling Wilburys, conductor. Goethe’s immortal drama, Charleston, SC; Joseph Flummerfelt, Sandy Denny, and others. with it’s legendary deal with the conductor (The Medium), John 12/11 Extended Sets, Part XXXVII. devil, has been adapted in countless Kennedy, conductor (Émilie). Contrasts three folk genres with ways, from symphonic poems to rock Menotti’s early opera The Medium Shirley Collins and the Albion musicals, but few if any can match the ran on Broadway for more than 200 Country Band, , and folk power and romance of Gounod’s opera. performances in 1947-48. Émilie, by collector Max Hunter. 10/31 Gluck: Telemaco. 2011 the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, Schwetzingen Festival; Freiburg is a mesmerizing one-act, one-woman 12/18 (Not Quite) Year End Review. opera. Samples music presented during the Baroque Orchestra, Basel Theatre 2011 season of Folk Festival. Chorus; Anu Tali, conductor. Gluck was 11/14 Verdi: La Traviata. Vienna among the most influential composers State Opera; Betrand de Billy, 12/25 Christmas with the Folks. in the history of opera. This opera conductor. This production stars the Various artists contribute to the is something of a rarity, but Gluck charismatic French soprano Natalie celebration including Dan Fogelberg, thought highly enough of its music to Dessay in the demanding role of John Baez, and Magpie. resurrect some of its finest numbers Violetta, with rising star Charles for use in both of his popular Iphigenie Castronovo, a New York native, as NPR World of Opera operas. Alfredo. Monday, 8:00 pm Program 10/3 Weber: Der Freischütz. Listings 2011 Classical Programming–hd2 Proms Concerts; Royal Albert Hall, London; Orchestre Révolutionnaire MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN et Romantique, Monteverdi Chorus; Mid. Mid. John Eliot Gardiner, conductor. This is 1:00 1:00 a chance to hear Weber’s atmospheric 2:00 2:00 Classical Music drama in its fascinating arrangement 3:00 with Peter van De Graaff 3:00 by Hector Berlioz, who set the spoken 4:00 4:00 dialogue to music and included his own, brilliant orchestration of Weber’s 5:00 5:00 famous “Invitation to the Dance.” 6:00 6:00 10/10 Verdi: Rigoletto. Chorégies 7:00 7:00 d’Orange Festival (Orange, France); 8:00 8:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin National Orchestra of France; Roberto 9:00 9:00

Rizzi Brignoli, conductor. It takes 10:00 Sunday 10:00 genius like Verdi’s to successfully Weekend Baroque 11:00 Music with Barbara Krauss Performance 11:00 combine true, heartfelt sentiment in Today the love between father and daughter, Noon Saint Paul Noon Sunday 1:00 1:00 with over-the-top passion and Classical Music Classical Harmonia with with Angela Mariani appalling violence. Rigoletto has all of 2:00 Classical Music with Gary Sexton Music with 2:00 Peter van De Barbara Graaff that, in spades. 3:00 Krauss Pipedreams 3:00

10/17 Rossini: Moses in Egypt. 4:00 Performance Today with Fred Child 4:00 Live! At the With Heart and Voice Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro; 5:00 Concert- 5:00 Chicago Live! At the gebouw Millennium Bologna Municipal Theater Orchestra New York Symphony- Pipedreams of Music 6:00 Symphony Concert- Cast 6:00 and Chorus; Roberto Abbado, Philharmonic Orchestra gebouw conductor. To skirt the official 7:00 SymphonyCast 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin Sunday 8:00 Baroque 8:00 prohibition of opera performances Weekend during Lent, Rossini came up with 9:00 Performance Today with Fred Child Performance 9:00 Today an operatic take on the biblical story 10:00 10:00 of Moses and the exodus from Egypt, 11:00 11:00 complete with the parting of the Classical Music with Peter van De Graaff Red Sea, as in Hollywood’s The Ten Mid. Mid. Commandments. All programsAll programs are subject are subject to change to change without without notice. notice.

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11/21 Dvorak: The Jacobin. Prague National Theatre. Tomás Netopil, conductor. Sometimes described as ADVISORY BOARD STAFF one of Dvorak’s most quintessentially 2006/2009 WYSU-FM STAFF Czech operas, this romantic drama Sherry Linkon April Antell-Tarantine—Announcer/ portrays a father and son who are Producer estranged by family intrigue and Sarah Lown Melinda Bowen-Houck—Development politics, then reconciled by the power Mollie Hartup Officer Madelon Sabine Ed Goist—Development Officer of music. Chris Hartman—Assistant Broadcast Susan Yerian 11/28 Wagner: The Flying Dutchman. Engineer for IT & Operations Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 2007/2010 Barbara Krauss—Announcer/Producer Ron Krauss—Broadcast Engineer (London); Jeffrey Tate, conductor. The Richard Hahn David Luscher—Associate Director Royal Opera has assembled another Paul Kobulnicky Rick Popovich—Announcer/Producer top-notch cast for Wagner’s stormy Isadore Mendel Gary Sexton—Director Laurie Wittkugle—Administrative Assistant drama of legendary determination, Andrea Wood undeniable love, and ultimate VOLUNTEER PROGRAM redemption. 2008/2011 HOSTS/PRODUCERS Fred Alexander Martin Berger—Now’s the Time 12/5 Britten: The Turn of the Screw. Ralph Peters Sarah Brown-Clark—Looking Out Theater an der Wien, Vienna; ORF Charles Darling—Folk Festival Susan Stewart Radio Symphony Orchestra; Cornelius Sherry Linkon—Lincoln Avenue Shelley Odille Meister, conductor. Based on a Henry Willie Lofton—Production Assistant George McCloud—Looking Out James’s ghost story about two orphans 2009 Paul Sracic—Looking Out tormented by seductive spirits, Tyler Clark Victor Wan-Tatah—Focus: Africana Studies Britten’s opera goes beyond spooky to Lark Dickstein Andrea Wood—Looking Out become genuinely disturbing. Lynn Griffith STUDENT STAFF 12/17 Ponchielli: La Gioconda. John Polanski Matthew Browning—Weekend Announcer, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Production Assistant 2010 Aamber Hopson—Office Assistant Orchestra and Chorus; Bruno Matthew D. Gurbach Tawni McClendon—Office Assistant, Bartoletti, conductor. Ponchielli’s Nancy Marsh Production Assistant masterpiece, a drama of politics, John Matthews—Production Intern Bill Brennan passion and murder, is so over-the- Patrick Shelton—Office Assistant, Weekend top sensational that you can’t help but Gina Schiavone Announcer love it—one of opera’s most delicious Rebekah Sheeler “guilty pleasures.” 2011 12/24 Rossini: La donna del lago. James F. Collier La Scala, Milan; Roberto Abbado, Gary Davenport conductor. In 1819, Rossini cashed Maggie McClendon in on an Italian taste for all things Scottish with this overtly Romantic opera based on a story by Sir Walter Scott. 12/26 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden All programs are subject to change without notice. Cockerel. Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor. This fairy- The 12th Note program guide is also available on-line at tale extravaganza is considered by some to be Rimsky-Korsakov’s finest wysu.org work. Based on a poem by Pushkin, it’s a story of incompetent politicians and unfulfilled promises, featuring a doddering Tsar who is ultimately pecked to death by the opera’s glittering title character.

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