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– Thu 24 Jul: DI ALTRI ASTRI for Sax alto and Piano (Premiere) Sala Colitto,Termoli,Italy
– Sat 26 Jul: Koorconcert, Tiramisu zomerkoor Lutherse Kerk, Maastricht, Netherlands
– Sun 27 Jul: Lines and Waves in Blue Deep for 5 accordions (wp) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
– Mon 28 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, Italy
– Tue 29 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Church in Piazza Giovanni XIII, Tolè di Vergato, 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:
– Elliott Goldkind
– Wilfred Josephs
– Robert John Farnon
– Ernest Bloch
– Paolino Vassallo
Dying days:
– Alan Rawsthorne
– Max von Schillings
– Léon Walpot
– Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti
– Johann Gottfried Eckard
Events:
– (1964) Alberto Ginastera: Premiere of Don Rodrigo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Friedenstag, in Munich, Germany.
– (1828) Nicoló Paganini: Premiere of violin concerto no. 3 in E major, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pierre Even (18 Jul)
– Clara Schumann (17 Jul)
– Barney Childs (17 Jul)
– István Anhalt (17 Jul)
– Lowell Dijkstra (17 Jul)
– Lisa Ragsdale (17 Jul)
– Amy Scurria (16 Jul)
– Diana Rotaru (16 Jul)
– Benedictus Buns (16 Jul)
– Johannes Brahms (15 Jul)

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Born: 1908 — Portugal

Died: 1990 — Portugal

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In 1923 Pedro do Prado became a student at Lisbon’s National Conservatory, where he actively participated as a member of the Student’s Association. Six years later, in that same academic environment, he directed the magazine De Música with Fernando Lopes-Graça as editor. He attended the theory and aesthetics lectures with Luís de Freitas Branco, the counterpoint lectures with António Eduardo da Costa Ferreira, and the piano lectures with Lourenço Varella Cid. He was a founding member of the “Grupo dos Quatro”, which included Armando José Fernandes, Fernando Lopes-Graça and Jorge Croner de Vasconcellos.

After having briefly taught music between 1936 and 1941 at the Coimbra Music Institute, he was until the 1970s in charge of the music programme at the National Radio Broadcast Station. He created in this institution the Musical Studies Cabinet, allowing the commissioning of pieces and the employment of Portuguese composers for the production and performance of new music pieces.

Pedro do Prado was one of the founding members of the Portuguese Musical Youth and received from the French State the Arts and Literature knighthood citation.

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