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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.

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– John Newell (4 Sep)
– Chan Ka Nin (4 Sep)

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Born: 27 October 1912 — Texarcana, Arkansas — USA

Died: 10 August 1997 — Mexico City — Mexico

It is the 60 Studies for Player Piano for which Nancarrow is best known — these pieces feature a complexity of rhythm and speed that no human pianist could ever hope to achieve. He wrote these works by punching holes in rolls of paper. By the late 1970s these studies were published and, as Nancarrow gained popularity, he wrote some works for more conventional media.

Conlon Nancarrow was a jazz trumpeter and studied composition in the 1930s. In 1937 he went to Spain to fight against Franco’s Fascist revolution. On his return to the United States in 1939, he was criticized for being a premature anti-fascist, and the US government took away his passport. He then moved to Mexico City in 1940, and spent the rest of his life there.

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