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– Thu 10 Jul: A Musical and Visual Tour of Scotland Macphail Theatre, Ullapool, Scotland
– Thu 10 Jul: GUBAIDULINA'S PERCEPTION - IN PARIS,COMPOSER Present Salle Cortot, Paris, France
– Wed 16 Jul: Pops in Outer Space Columbus Park,Stamford, CT
– Thu 17 Jul: Five Centuries of Great Duets East Meadow, NY, USA
– Sun 20 Jul: Workshop for Contemporary Music Termoli (CB) - Italy

– Fitkin to be Composer in Residence in London 16 Jun 2008
– Composer Hay finds back score after 35 years 30 May 2008
– Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin 24 Apr 2008
– Lost Bach composition found back 22 Apr 2008

Birthdays:
– Stephen Hartke
– Padre Luís de Sousa Rodrigues
– Hanns Eisler
Dying days:
– Ludovit Rajter
– Joaquín Rodrigo
– Otto Klemperer
– Ferdinand Zellbell (der Ältere)
Events:
– (1991) Krzysztof Penderecki: Premiere of Ubu Rex, in Munich, Germany.
– (1987) Henri Pousseur: Premiere of Un Jardin de Passacaille, in Montpellier, France.
– (1986) Aribert Reimann: Premiere of Troades, in Munich, Germany.

– Gabriel Erkoreka (17 Jun)
– Miguel Álvarez Fernández (17 Jun)
– Edward Gonçalves Pinto (17 Jun)
– George Frederic Pinto (17 Jun)
– André Miranda (17 Jun)
– Artur Santos (17 Jun)
– Martin Wesley-Smith (17 Jun)
– Arturo Márquez (17 Jun)
– Giorgos Kyriakakis (17 Jun)
– Thomas Brendan Wilson (17 Jun)

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– Antonio Vivaldi [2380]
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1832]
– Ludwig van Beethoven [1194]
– Johann Sebastian Bach [1162]
– Johann Nepomuk Hummel [1123]
– Johannes Brahms [1096]
– Antonio Salieri [1095]
– Gustav Mahler [1090]
– Georges Bizet [1061]

Born: 2 March 1892 — Dardha — Albania

Died: 21 December 1964 — Orleans — USA

• Hymni Flamurit (The Flag Hymn), arrangement of Albanian National Anthem (Kristo Floqit/Ciprian Porumbescu/Nassi), publ. 1918; 2nd printing Thomas Nassi, Orleans MA 1947
• Prapa Ardhi (Love Song) Floqit/Nassi
• Malesore (To the Mountain Girl) tenor & male trio) Floqit/Nassi
• Fyelli i Bariut (Shepard’s Flute) (Flute & piano)
• Katra Valle (A suite of Albanian folk dances)

(representative works)

Thomas Nassi had a many-faceted career as a music leader and educator. He may be considered the father of introduction of Western music to Albania, which was liberated from Turkish rule in 1912, and struggled against Italian domination after WW I (1920). Nassi emigrated to the United States in 1914, and graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1918, also serving part-time in the Boston Symphony as a flutist. In an astounding 4-year period before 1920 he also founded the first Albanian-American band, and founded and led several Albanian Orthodox church choirs in Boston and other Massachusetts towns. In 1920 he took the "Vatra" band to Albania, supporting the independence struggle and later bringing music to all parts of the country. After his return from Albania in 1926 he moved to Cape Cod (Massachusetts). Here he and his family provided most of the school music education in the Upper Cape. He founded many performance organizations, including the forerunner to the present Cape Cod Symphony. He enjoys near-hero status with both the Albanian American community and in present-day Albania, but has up to now been little known outside the Albanian ethnic community and Cape Cod.

[Brief summary of article by Frank T. Manheim in the forthcoming Oxford University Press, American Biography encyclopedic publication]

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