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School of Music to host Indonesian gamelan concert Nov. 19
10/30/2008 - Western Carolina University’s School of Music will present a concert of gamelan music at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in th
e recital hall of Coulter Building on Western’s campus.
The concert will feature traditional Central Javanese music performed on a bronze gamelan in pelog tuning. The gamelan will provide accompaniment for “Ketawang Ibu Pertiwi,” a traditional Indonesian dance that will be performed by Siti Kusujiarti, right, a sociology professor at Warren Wilson College who used to teach at WCU.
The program also will include a contemporary piece, “Penyelamat Gelap,” composed by Mike Young, a WCU graduate student.
“A gamelan is an orchestra of tuned percussion instruments that consists mainly of gongs, metallophones and xylophones,” said Joy Shea, gamelan instructor for WCU’s School of Music. “The instruments are traditional to Indonesia as well as several other Southeast Asia countries.”
The concert is free and open to the public. After the concert, the audience will be invited to come onto the stage to inspect and play the instruments.
For more information about WCU’s School of Music, call (828) 227-3258, or e-mail Will Peebles, director of WCU’s School of Music, via wpeebles@wcu.edu.
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Last modified Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008.
e recital hall of Coulter Building on Western’s campus.The concert will feature traditional Central Javanese music performed on a bronze gamelan in pelog tuning. The gamelan will provide accompaniment for “Ketawang Ibu Pertiwi,” a traditional Indonesian dance that will be performed by Siti Kusujiarti, right, a sociology professor at Warren Wilson College who used to teach at WCU.
The program also will include a contemporary piece, “Penyelamat Gelap,” composed by Mike Young, a WCU graduate student.
“A gamelan is an orchestra of tuned percussion instruments that consists mainly of gongs, metallophones and xylophones,” said Joy Shea, gamelan instructor for WCU’s School of Music. “The instruments are traditional to Indonesia as well as several other Southeast Asia countries.”
The concert is free and open to the public. After the concert, the audience will be invited to come onto the stage to inspect and play the instruments.
For more information about WCU’s School of Music, call (828) 227-3258, or e-mail Will Peebles, director of WCU’s School of Music, via wpeebles@wcu.edu.
Maintained by the Office of Public Relations.
Last modified Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008.