On Sunday afternoons, the clang of traditional Indonesian percussion music known as gamelan wafts down the street, audible on the approach to the Indonesian Consulate on Manhattan's east side. Gamelan ...

The original version of this story stated that Tyler Yamin was the only person who knew how to play "Semar Pegulingan." In fact, Yamin was the only person who knew how to play "Semar Pegulingan" ...

Date and Time: November 17th at 7:30 p.m. Location: Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, BYU BYU’s Balinese percussion orchestra, Gamelan Bintang Wahyu, will perform on November 17th at 7:30 ...

Gamelan Candra Wyoga, the University of Wyoming’s Balinese music ensemble, will perform music and dance in a concert Sunday, May 5. (Christine Reed Photo) Gamelan Candra Wyoga, the University of ...

Patrick Alonzo Conway (foreground), director of Kansas City's Gamelan Genta Kasturi, with Alan Winkler. Western audiences have long been fascinated in the Balinese art form of gamelan, which honors ...

At home in Indonesia, gamelan is more than just a kind of music—it’s a way of life. So much so, in fact, that Gamelan Gita Asmara’s I Wayan Sudirana is mildly taken aback when asked how he came to be ...

In a program titled Mebarung! — a Balinese term for a sort of “battle of the bands” between gamelan ensembles — the Bates Gamelan Orchestra welcomes the Massachusetts group Gamelan Galak Tika for a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith No one who has ever thrilled to the radiant shimmer and throb of a fine Balinese gamelan could have trouble understanding ...

THE floors of New York City’s music halls attain various states of cleanliness. Few ensembles are in a better position to observe them up close than the Balinese ensemble Gamelan Dharma Swara. In an ...

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 ...