Advanced Javanese Gamelan Ensemble Fall Concert

Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 8:00pm
World Music Hall

Free

Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff can RSVP on WesNest.

Advanced students from Wesleyan’s Javanese Gamelan Ensemble present a fall concert of the classical music of Central Java, under the direction of Sumarsam MA ’76, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, I.M. Harjito, University Professor of Music  

Students in the Javanese Gamelan Ensemble focus on the direct, hands-on experience of performing Central Javanese gamelan music, augmented by occasional discussions and the showing of documentary films. Since 1983, Wesleyan has owned one of the finest gamelan instruments in the world, a set from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The instrument itself dates back to the 12th century, when the magnificent orchestra of colorful bronze gongs and metallophones, wooden xylophones, drums, bowed- and plucked-string instruments, flute, and voices first began to accompany feasts, ceremonies, and dances.