“Pasupati: Balinese Dance and Music,” a free event, will be presented at the Hana Public & School Library’s 2015 Summer Reading Program Finale at 2 p.m. Friday. Performers I. Made Widana and Anna ...
The music of the Indonesian gamelan, with its clangorous sonorities and intricate, smoothly interlocking rhythms, has exerted its allure on countless composers and listeners over the past century. One ...
Date and Time: November 17th at 7:30 p.m. Location: Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, BYU BYU’s Balinese percussion orchestra, Gamelan Bintang Wahyu, will perform on November 17th at 7:30 ...
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 ...
When a friend introduced Wayne Vitale to Balinese music in 1979, he says it was a “no looking back moment.” “What can any musician say about being obsessed with something?” Vitale recalled of hearing ...
In his new book The Island of Bali Is Littered in Prayers, BYU musicologist Jeremy Grimshaw chronicles launching a gamelan ... In his new book The Island of Bali Is Littered with Prayers, BYU ...
A sequence of repeating numbers written on a whiteboard guides percussionists through a swelling, fast-paced musical performance. The song “Siwanata,” complete with hefty drumbeats overlain with ...
Gamelan music originates from Indonesia. More than two decades ago, the art form found a home on the opposite side of the world in Denver. Established in 1988, the Tunas Mekar gamelan ensemble plans ...
Patrick Alonzo Conway (foreground), director of Kansas City's Gamelan Genta Kasturi, with Alan Winkler. Western audiences have long been fascinated in the Balinese art form of gamelan, which honors ...
This semester, BYU is offering more than 100 new classes — including a course on Balinese dance. Professor I Gusti Agung Ayu Warsiki and her husband I Nyoman Windha are visiting this semester from ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith No one who has ever thrilled to the radiant shimmer and throb of a fine Balinese gamelan could have trouble understanding ...