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• n  a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs

• Hirsch says the Sinfonietta had also hosted concerts with bagpipes, and once featured an Indonesian gamelan orchestra, using gongs and mallet-struck instruments.
• The music of a Balinese gamelan can clang steel-hard or chime gold-soft, Manhattanites discovered and the rhythm was as exact and exciting as a drum solo by Gene Krupa.
• Thus far, the foundation has created a health clinic, a gamelan school and a simple fitness center.

News & Articles

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• Javanese shadow puppet theater at Bates
  Puppeteer Sumarsam performs for the crowd gathered at Olin Arts Center at Bates College Sunday afternoon. The Wayang Kulit Javanese Shadow Puppet Theater, along with the Bates Gamelan Ensemble put on a free show for the public at the Lewiston college.
  Nov. 18, 2013 - The Lewiston Sun Journal

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• Arif Mardin in Reuters
  He wanted some seashore sound effects, a Balinese gamelan interlude, finger snaps and Jerry Dodgion's flute as an alter ego to the vocal,Mardin says.
• Evan Ziporyn in New York Times
  There's something about doing Xenakis next to gamelan and guitars that kind of sums up Bang on a Can,Mr. Ziporyn said.
• David Proctor in Clubcall
  Speaking less than two weeks after Butcher replaced Craig Brewster, Proctor told Setanta: "Coming into training the players have a spring in their step and we are all looking to impress the manager. He has come in with a gamelan and he makes sure...