Joining the University Gamelan this year are vocalists Rika Rafika and virtuoso drummer Suherlan. Rafika is an award-winning vocalist who sings both traditional music and pop Sunda. She has 10 albums to her credit already and shows no signs of slowing down. Suherlan is a virtuoso drummer who has been performing with Rafika since 2005.
Join the University of Pittsburgh’s world music ensembles for music making, dancing, and refreshments. The program will feature performances by
Carpathian Music Ensemble: Dr. Adriana Helbig, Director
University Gamelan: Dr. Andrew Weintraub and Indra Ridwan, Directors
Indian Tabla Ensemble: Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Director | African Music
and Dance Ensemble: Dr. Gavin Steingo, Director
The University Gamelan, directed by Visiting Lecturer in Ethnomusicology Andrew Hicken, presents music and dance of Java with special guest artists R. Anderson Sutton, Roger Vetter, and Val Vetter. Saturday night's performance will also feature the Dangdut Cowboys, Pittsburgh's own Indonesian pop band.
Co-sponsored by the Indo-Pacific Council and the Asian Studies Center
The University Gamelan, directed by Visiting Lecturer in Ethnomusicology Andrew Hicken, presents music and dance from Java with special guest artists R. Anderson Sutton, Roger Vetter, and Val Vetter. Saturday night's performance will also feature the Dangdut Cowboys, Pittsburgh's own Indonesian pop band.
Co-sponsored by the Indo-Pacific Council and the Asian Studies Center.
The University Gamelan, under the direction of Professor Andrew Weintraub, will perform music and dance of West Java. The program will feature dancer Ening Rumbini and master drummer Undang Sumarna.
The University Gamelan, under the direction of Professor Andrew Weintraub, will perform music and dance of West Java. The program will feature dancer Ening Rumbini and master drummer Undang Sumarna.
This past March the University Gamelan, directed by Andrew Weintraub, performed a concert with the Erie Philharmonic as part of Edinboro University’s Friends of Music Concert Series. Under the direction of Daniel Meyer, the Erie Philharmonic performed William P. Alexander’s Winter Solstice: Images From a Journey, and Debussy’s La Mer. The inclusion of Pitt’s gamelan on a program with Debussy underscored the significant impact Indonesian music had on the composer, who famously encountered Javanese gamelan at the 1889 Exposition in Paris.
This evening of gamelan and dance of West Java will feature guest artist Ening Rumbini.
Tickets in advance though ProArts: general admission $8.50, students and seniors $5. Visit www.proartstickets.org or call 412-394-3353. Tickets at the door: general admission $15, non-Pitt students and seniors, $10. Pitt students free with valid ID.
You are invited to a book-launch celebration and symposium for Music and Cultural Rights (University of Illinois Press, 2009), co-edited by Andrew Weintraub and Bell Yung, on Friday December 4, 2pm to 6pm, in the Kurtzman Room of the Student Union.
Andrew Weintraub, Director and Jay Arms, Instructor