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– Sat 6 Sep: Seann Branchfield Acoustic Performance Gizzy's Coffee 16 W 8th Street, New York, NY, USA
– Sat 6 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Ronciglione, VITERBO
– Sat 6 Sep: Short romantic pieces for piano Michel Body Str. 12, 4460 Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium
– Sat 6 Sep: Eloi Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TQ, United Kingdom
– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK

– 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

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Dying days:
– Léon Orthel
– Ronald Binge
– Karl Ranki
– Hanns Eisler
– Felix Borowski
Events:
– (1974) Klaus Huber: Premiere of Turnus, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
– (1910) Thomas Tallis: Premiere of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, in Gloucester, England.
– (1910) Ralph Vaughan Williams: Premiere of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, in Gloucester, England.
– (1791) Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart: Premiere of La Clemenza di Tito, in Prague, Czech Republic, with Mozart conducting.

– Boris Berlin (5 Sep)
– Herman Berlinski (5 Sep)
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– Victor Schlesinger (5 Sep)
– Anton Berlijn (5 Sep)
– Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (4 Sep)
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– Nicolas (Clais) Champion (4 Sep)

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Born: 10 September 1906 — Utrecht — The Netherlands

Died: 14 February 1972 — Roden — The Netherlands

Major works

Music for Orchestra

• First Symphony (1928)
• Second Symphony (1930, revised 1945)
• Third Symphony (1939)
• Catharsis, a symphonic ballet (1945)
• Concert (1950)
• Symphonia (1954)
• Divertimento facile (1957)
• Intrada reale e sinfonia festiva (1964)
• Suite (1966)

Selected other Compositions

• Sonate pour une poupée (1925)
• Deux poésies de Ronsard Cependant que ce beau mois dure, Ephitaphe (1931)
• Small Suite (1935)
• The Dike, choir music on a text by Van Engelman (1937)
• A tfile fun a ghettojid (Yiddish: Prayer of a ghetto Jew), text by Kwiattkowska (1948)
• Ik sla de trom... (Dutch: I Hit the Drum...), text by J. Greshoff (1948)
• Theater music for "Aias and Antigone" by Sofokles, translated by Van Lier (1952)
• Cantata for Christmis, text by J. Thomson (1955)
• 5 May: She, text by K de Josselin de Jong (1962)

Born 1906 in Utrecht, Bertus van Lier studied cello with Ferrée and Orobio de Castro and composition with Willem Pijper at the Amsterdam Academy of Music. He continued his studies with the German composer Hermann Scherchen in Strassbourg.

Van Lier taught at the Music Academies of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam and reviewed concerts for the Dutch daily "Het Parool" (selected reviews were later published in a book). After completing his doctorate with the highest honors in 1964 at the Groningen University, he was appointed as lecturer at this university 1966. He died in 1972, at the age of 65, in Roden near Groningen.

(contribution by Gidon J. Berman <gjbermanusa.net>)

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