Grassroots Gardens settings are perfect for enjoying the outdoors, and everything that Mother Nature has to offer. While most of the Grassroots Gardens outings are simply “visits to the 104 gardens in ...
On Saturday December 16, Nusantara Arts a sensational Balinese music tribute will commence, produced by Buffalo based Indonesian culture non profit Nusantara Arts. The concert and performance will ...
Americans tend to believe that Walt Disney’s Snow White, from 1937, was the first animated film. But that honor actually goes to The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the earliest surviving animated ...
No one listens to classical gamelan music for the first time and thinks, “I’ve heard something like this before.” There’s nothing like it. A gamelan is a classical Indonesian orchestra anchored by ...
Watching Sigit Soegito and the University gamelan performance group at rehearsal in the School of Art and Design, you’re struck by the awesome sense that you’re witnessing something much greater than ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Most groups that play gamelan, an Indonesian form of music, are playing traditional work. "But that's not what we do," said Michael Lipsey, in an interview with The Eagle. In 2011, ...
On Wednesday, The UNC Gamelan Nyai Saraswati ensemble hosted their Fall concert with over 50 people in attendance. The concert was in Hill Hall, and featured a variety of instruments, including gongs, ...
I learned how to listen to gamelan in the womb. Quite literally, in fact; my mother, an American musician and ethnomusicologist, would play Balinese gamelan when she was pregnant with me, sitting ...
The late composer Lou Harrison had a great love for the Indonesian percussion orchestra called Gamelan. He wrote pieces for Gamelans built in Java, but also for American-made Gamelan orchestras. From ...