A suggestion for solution and request for higher priority.

This bug is for some people a high priority. That is to say, some people
need to be on time some places and it is the sound alarm that tells them
to go because they are not watching the screen and the popup is too fast
to be useful. It actually should stay up until user dismiss it just like
alarm clock snooze.

This bug is around at least 2 years. In 9.04 I was able to get around
"play sound" reminder by using "run program" which I made "play <sound
file>". That worked in 9.04 but not in 9.10.

I am not claiming being expert on Evolution (in fact I am not expert), but here 
is my suggestion. Since the popup notifier does work for most people, here is 
how to fix "make sound" alarm. Copy the code of popup notification. In the 
middle replace the section doing popup with "system call to play/aplay <sound 
file>".
You can also apply it to "run program".
-regards

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Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified 
sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162544
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