TIRANA, May 29 – Paying tribute to late maestro Laver Bariu, the southern Albanian town of Permet hosted this week the clarinet isopolyphony festival. A CD named the “Spiritual heritage of Maestro Laver Bariu” was promoted and a plaque unveiled at the apartment block where he lived.
The three-day festival hosted concerts, exhibitions and promotions.
“In clarinets and clarinet music you can find the roots of the existence and identity of the Albanian people. Harmonica music is a spiritual heritage of southern Albania and part of their joys and sorrows,” says musicologist Vasil Tole.
Laver Bariu, Albania’s most popular and greatest clarinetist passed away last January in his hometown of Permet which he promoted in Albania and abroad with his wonderful tunes of local folk tunes.
Laver Bariu is arguably the best known Albanian clarinetist of the last half century and an important figure in the development of urban folk music in the south-eastern Albanian region of Tosk쳩a. His iso-polyphony tunes have been placed under UNESCO protection as “a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity”.
Polyphony festival pays tribute to Laver Bariu
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