"A Night in Indonesia: Javanese Gamelan," will be held Saturday, March 24 at 8 p.m., with a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk. The concert will offer an experience of the full flavor (sounds, smells, tastes) of ...
Who would have ever thought that Buffalo would be home to one of the most impressive sets of Javanese Gamelan instruments, and wayang kulit shadow puppets, outside of Indonesia? Thanks to a herculean ...
Feb. 22—The music of the Sundanese people of the Indonesian island of Java is coming to Greensburg, courtesy of the University Gamelan of the University of Pittsburgh. The ensemble will play a free ...
Celebrate the music and instruments of the Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan at a National Music Museum (NMM) exhibit that will remain open through the summer at the Groves Gallery for Special ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Gamelan Kusuma Laras presents an evening of Javanese music for the public in the ...
Indonesia gave rise to one of the world’s greatest traditions of art music, its repertoire encompassing a multitude of styles and approaches — not surprising when you recall that the vast Indonesian ...
A gamelan is a group of musical instruments — ones steeped in thousands of years of Javanese and Balinese tradition and built and tuned as a unified harmonic ensemble. Each gamelan is unique, and ...
An informal music event in Java, a klenèngan features musicians who gather for a kind of jam session, often arranged by a family for a special event. Typically lasting until late at night, audience ...
Inside a large room in the School of Music building on North Campus, the rhythmically timed sounds of percussion thump. It’s a soft, melodious music, and distinct from anything else one might happen ...
Bates is about 9,600 miles from his hometown of Surakarta, Java, but the gamelan musician and master puppeteer Darsono has found that the college was surprisingly well-prepared for his residency this ...
I must say that I’m fascinated by this new gamelan music movement in Buffalo. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been following Matt Dunning’s (Artistic Director, Gamelan Sari Raras Irama) epic adventure, ever ...
Plainfield may well be the Javanese gamelan capital of the western world, and certainly of the United States. It all began in the 1960s when Dennis Murphy built the first gamelan in the world outside ...