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– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK
– Wed 17 Sep: Gloria in Re Maggiore Arezzo, Italy
– Sat 20 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Turin, Italy
– Mon 22 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Brescia, Italy
– Sun 28 Sep: New Music for Saxophone Pima College, Tucson, Arizona, USA

– Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 awarded to Klaus Huber 11 Aug 2008
– Wagstaff's Piano Quintet released on CD 6 Aug 2008
– Statue unveiled to honour Séan Ó Riada 4 Aug 2008
– Norman Dello Joio dies at 95 29 Jul 2008

Birthdays:
– Dennis DeSantis
– Daniel Palkowski
– Reinbert de Leeuw
– Peter Maxwell Davies
– Rene Touzet
Dying days:
– Louis Thomas Hardin
– Frederick May
– Richard Strauss
– Carlo Gesualdo
Events:
– (1991) Peteris Vasks: Premiere of Symphony for Strings “Voices”, in Kokkola, Finland.
– (1961) Earle Brown: Premiere of Available Forms I, in Darmstadt, Germany.
– (1825) Franz Schubert: Premiere of Mass in C major D 452, in Vienna, Austria.

– Jiří Kadeřábek (8 Sep)
– Albert Pieczonka (8 Sep)
– François-André Philidor (8 Sep)
– Pehr Henrik Nordgren (6 Sep)
– Boris Berlin (5 Sep)
– Herman Berlinski (5 Sep)
– Johan Daniel Berlin (5 Sep)
– Victor Schlesinger (5 Sep)
– Anton Berlijn (5 Sep)
– Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (4 Sep)

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Born: 9 November 1940 — Dolores — Uruguay

Died:

• "...from the earth..." (1972) for a variable number of sustaining instruments
• "Madrigal III" (1976) for 2 sopranos and chamber ensemble (Text by Netzahualcoyotl)
• "El Rio de los pajaros pintados" (1979) for bandoneon and tape
• "Four Fragments of Isadora" (1979)song cycle
• "Candombe" (1984)for solo harpsichord
• "The Hay Wain" (1987) Electronic music
• "Inez de Castro" (1988) a ballet for electronic sounds
• "Leyenda" (1989) for soprano and orchestra (Text by Zorrilla de San Martin)
• "Concerto for harpsichord and 11 instruments" (1992)
• "The triumph of death" (1993) song cycle for soprano and piano
• "Madrigales de amor y de muerte" (1994) for bariton and string orchestra
• "Plegaria y danza" (1994) violin alone

Born in Uruguay of Italian–French parents, came to the US in 1962 to study with Stefan Grove and Ernst Krenek at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Was composer in residence in West Berlin in 1969–70, resided in New York city for 27 years. Was a Master Teacher of Music at New York University School of the Arts until 1996. Has written film music (contributions to Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers) several song cycles, several orchestral pieces and many scores for dance. His current aesthetics (after an early brush with minimalism) is a free tonality with incursions into pop and nationalism.

• http://www.sergiocervetti.com/

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