Who would have ever thought that Buffalo would be home to one of the most impressive sets of Javanese Gamelan instruments, and wayang kulit shadow puppets, outside of Indonesia? Thanks to a herculean ...

Matt Dunning (Artistic Director Gamelan Sari Raras Irama) is at it again. Back in January, I wrote about how he and his ensemble of Gamelan instrument players were turning Buffalo into a hotbed for ...

James Howe '23 had never considered himself a musical person, but he wanted his college experience to be about stepping outside his comfort zone. After taking a crash course in the gamelan as part of ...

The sounds of the traditional Indonesian orchestra known as the gamelan have enchanted Western explorers for centuries. In 1580, Francis Drake described the music in his logbook as "of a very strange ...

Sinta Penyami Storms performs the Tari Cendrawasih, the Birds of Paradise dance. (Emily Neil/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover?

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 ...

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 ...

The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra, a student ensemble that plays music of Indonesia, and special guest artists perform Lou Harrison’s remarkable Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese ...

Gamelan, the term for a traditional musical ensemble in Indonesia, typically refers to a percussion orchestra composed predominantly of tuned gongs of various types and metal-keyed instruments. The ...

The gamelan, a collection of traditional Javanese percussive instruments, has been skirting the periphery of our musical landscape for more than two decades now, and UCC professor of music Mel Mercier ...

Digital music: SK Bandar Uda 2 pupils wowing the audience by performing familiar Malay classics using tablet devices. — THOMAS YONG/The Star JOHOR BARU: With heads bent over “instruments”, the SK ...