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    Mehr News Agency, Iran
    May 1 2004

    Kamkars Returns After One-Week UK Concert Tour

    TEHRAN, May 1 (MNA) -- Iranian traditional music group Kamkars has
    returned to Tehran after a one-week concert tour of Britain.

    The group gave several performances honoring the Italian composer
    Luciano Berio in Oxford, York, Manchester, Birmingham, and Nottingham,
    accompanied by the London Sinfonietta Orchestra.

    Omaggio was the first festival celebrating Berio's work after the
    composer's unexpected death last spring. At the time, Berio had been
    working on a piece combining elements of Sicilian folksongs and
    Kurdish songs.

    Organized by Gillian Moore, the manager of the London Sinfonietta
    Orchestra, the festival also included performances by the renowned
    Armenian duduk player Jevan Gesparian.

    Berio is considered to be one of the 20th century's leading
    composers. He was a pioneer in the use of electronic and avant-garde
    composition techniques. In terms of influence he is often placed in
    the same league as Stravinsky. During his career he taught at
    Tanglewood, Mills College, Harvard University, and Juilliard College.
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