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: The inauguration of a Balinese gamelan- Semar Pagulingan
Saih Pitu - at the University of California, Berkeley's
music department
ATTENTION:
ASSIGNMENT DESKS
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12.06.00
Contact: Kathleen Maclay
(510) 643-5651
ckm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
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WHAT:
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The
inauguration of a Balinese gamelan- Semar Pagulingan
Saih Pitu - at the University of California, Berkeley's
music department. The new gamelan is a 1.5-ton assembly
of 30 instruments including gongs, drums, cymbals and
flutes made of bronze, bamboo and finely-carved gilded
wood.
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gamelan will be played at the inauguration. It also
will be blessed and purified by three Balinese performers.
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WHEN:
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2:00
-3:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 7, 2000. Members of the media
are invited. |
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WHERE:
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Room
125 of Morrison Hall, UC Berkeley. |
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WHO:
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Nyoman
Windha, a leading musician in Bali, will be joined for
the inauguration by two eminent music teachers and Balinese
performers, Made Subandi and Nyi Ketut Arini Alit. Windha,
also a research associate at UC Berkeley's Center for
Southeast Asia Studies, is in residence on campus this
fall with a local performing ensemble, Gamelan Sekar Jaya.
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BACKGROUND:
The
inaugural ceremony concludes a course on the music of
Southeast Asia taught by lecturer Lisa Gold, whose students
have received instruction by Windha on the seven-pitch
scale Balinese gamelan as well as on the Javanese gamelan.
Although UC Berkeley's music department already owns
a Javanese gamelan, the Balinese gamelan differs dramatically
in sound, appearance, playing technique, repertoire
and performance contexts. It was brought to UC Berkeley
last summer by Gold and Ben Brinner, an ethnomusicologist
at UC Berkeley. Gold is a member of Gamelan Sekar Jaya.
The new gamelan was purchased for the music department
by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies with Luce Foundation
funds.
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