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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: 19 August 1813 — Philadelphia — USA

Died: 21 September 1864 — Santa Cruz — West Indies

Partial List of Works include: Stabat Mater, several cantatas, four symphonies, a second opera - Notre Dame de Paris, and many songs.

He is considered to be one of the first to champion the cause of the American composer and of opera performance in English. He was a student of L. Meignen in harmony and counterpoint. In 1845, Fry had the distinction of producing the first performance of an American grand opera, his Lenora, being performed in Philadelphia. Lenora was produced later in 1858 in New York City, and abroad. As a foreign correspondent, Fry sought out meetings with well known composers and musicians. He interviewed Berlioz in 1852. Returning to the U.S. he delivered a number of lectures on music, attacking what he termed an indifference of American artists to draw on purely American themes.

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