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The Balinese gamelan stands as one of the world’s most fascinating, hypnotic, and transporting experiences of music. In this concert-length evening, the works of 20th and 21st century composers who found ready influence in this music: Steve Reich, Vivian Fung, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Lou Harrison.
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Due to extenuating visa circumstances, the Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, Gamelan Gita Asmara, will not be able to join for the December 15 Seattle and December 16 Olympia programs. They will be rescheduled on a future program.
Replacing them on the second half of the program will be more music inspired by gamelan from the already scheduled wonderful ECM artists Kristin Lee, Michael Stephen Brown, and Svet Stoyanov – full program details are below.
For those who have tickets for December’s performances and would like, we are offering a free exchange of your ticket(s) to another program on the 2023/24 Season. Please email info@emeraldcitymusic.org with your exchange request.
*supported in part by the American-Indonesian Cultural & Educational Foundation
Composers over the centuries found inspiration in folk music from around the world, and in the late 20th century, many composers found their influence in gamelan music from Indonesia. We’re proud to bring you an experience of chamber music works that transform the indelible instrument into each composer’s own style and setting. Debussy and Ravel paint with its harmonic color palette and common melodic shapes. Vivian Fung mimics the special timbres and sound world. Steve Reich lives within its rhythmic systems and poignant expression through repeated figures, while Lou Harrison captures its overall textures and tells an evocative story through the sense of gamelan’s coordinated interlocking parts. Come be transported by gamelan re-contextualized.
We apologize, but all tickets for this concert has been sold out.
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