Who would have ever thought that Buffalo would be home to one of the most impressive sets of Javanese Gamelan instruments, and wayang kulit shadow puppets, outside of Indonesia? Thanks to a herculean ...

Buffalo is known for a lot of things, but were you aware that it’s known as one of the epicenters of gamelan (pronounced ga · muh · lon, with an initial soft ‘A’) music, outside of Indonesia? It’s an ...

Have you ever heard the hauntingly beautiful melodies of a gamelan orchestra? It sings of a world forgotten by time, a realm mysterious and enchanting. “The sound of the gamelan, its echoes … is very ...

James Howe '23 had never considered himself a musical person, but he wanted his college experience to be about stepping outside his comfort zone. After taking a crash course in the gamelan as part of ...

The sounds of the traditional Indonesian orchestra known as the gamelan have enchanted Western explorers for centuries. In 1580, Francis Drake described the music in his logbook as "of a very strange ...

The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra, a student ensemble that plays music of Indonesia, and special guest artists perform Lou Harrison’s remarkable Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Dozens of people gathered in South Philly on Saturday at the Gamelan Gita Santi’s ...

Twenty-four foreigners who are members of the Siswa Sukra gamelan group, which is based in Britain, visited Indonesia from Aug. 5-22. They visited Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Surakarta as part of their ...

Digital music: SK Bandar Uda 2 pupils wowing the audience by performing familiar Malay classics using tablet devices. — THOMAS YONG/The Star JOHOR BARU: With heads bent over “instruments”, the SK ...