Sciarrino

Robert Sciarrino-Pool/Getty Images A woman wept as family members of Sept. 11 victims gathered at Ground Zero for a memorial ceremony Friday morning.

Marking Sept. 11 Around the World 2009

Her program includes a premiere by Brad Balliett, as well as pieces by Salvatore Sciarrino, George Aperghis and Allain Gaussin. 4 p.m., Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, Manhattan, 212 319-5300

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Mr. Sciarrino approached his transcription with a combination of reverence and humor: the work's musical substance is translated with only slight embellishment to flute, two violins and muted trumpet, but for semi-comic verisimilitude, Mr. Sciarrino added a player who runs his finger around the rim of a wineglass tuned to G at phrase endings.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011

The group, known as ICE, combined old and new in its curtain raiser, Mozart's Adagio K. 356, originally for the glass armonica - the curious instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin - but heard here in an arrangement by Salvatore Sciarrino.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011

The Sciarrino version was a good choice for the main program, but this was a missed opportunity: the piece is short enough that it could have been heard both ways.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011

Sciarrino is perhaps the first composer who used sound as a living organism.

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Sciarrino is perhaps the first composer who used sound as a living organism.

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We had Sciarrino over tonight and thought we'd give her a little go at it, she got a bit weepy (Tuesday not Sciarrino).

Life In Color Amber Lee 2009

"The new FCC is an energetic agency that will ensure that radio broadcasters are indeed both technologically efficient and serving the public interest," Sciarrino told Radio World.

RWOnline 2009

Sciarrino is perhaps the first composer who used sound as a living organism.

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