Legend has it that when the French classical composer Claude Debussy first encountered Javanese gamelan at the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, he was utterly entranced, returning again and again to hear ...

In this case, it’s Balinese gamelan, a style of music that she's explored extensively. When Lee took classes from Fung at Juilliard, she was struck by the sound of her music and learned it was ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- In Bali and Java, gamelan -- meaning "to hammer" -- describes a pentatonic (five-note) scale percussion or ches tra of gongs, hand drums and metal xylophones. In clarinetist/composer ...

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 ...

The Bates College Concert Series presents Gamelan Galak Tika, a Boston-area ensemble performing the gamelan music of Bali, Indonesia, in performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, in the Olin Arts Center ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For Balinese Hindus, the music of the gamelan is a gift from the gods and performances are an offering ...

Featuring performances by students from Bates and Bowdoin colleges, as well as a special appearance by a Balinese gamelan orchestra from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bates presents World ...

Metallic. Delicate. Confused. Sensuous. Overpowering. All have been used to describe the music of the gamelan, a collection of percussive instruments. Canadian composer Colin McPhee (1900-1964) was so ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you missed her at the Folk Fest, the world-class Indonesian vocalist gives another free show on Oct. 8. Peni Candra Rini sings in a free concert with Gamelan Raga Kusuma at Virginia Commonwealth ...