Instead of being accompanied by a traditional gamelan orchestra, the dance was accompanied by the Erwin Gutawa Orchestra along with a choir. |
The University of Pittsburgh Music Department offers classes in gamelan and African music and dance as part of its program in Ethnomusicology. |
It is performed by a simplified gamelan orchestra blending soft-sounding percussion instruments with the melancholy sounds of a flute. |
Debussy was among those who heard them, and began a tradition of transforming the gamelan into concert music. |
Some 40 people, most of them children, practice Balinese traditional dances and the gamelan at his workshop and home. |
Somewhere in the gardens a gamelan player spreads a musical spell, charming the moon to rise like a mirror out of the sea. |