Exposure to this exotic culture produced a “javaphilia” – a fascination for the music and dance of Java. That long-lasting allure, and how the music had been transformed, could be seen nearly 100 ...

The Brevard Music Center will continue the First Mondays concert series featuring artist faculty at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Concerts are held at the First United Methodist Church of Brevard, 325 N. Broad St ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gamelan: The term gamelan refers to musical ensembles from the islands of Java and Bali in the Republic of Indonesia, and by extension to the music that is played on them. Javanese gamelan consists ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fuelled by the punk-neotribal rhythms of Javanese duo Senyawa, Attractor’s dance builds to a trancelike frenzy. Performer Kyle Page, artistic director of Australia’s Dancenorth company, says its ...

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 ...