Gamelan refers to large ensembles of mostly bronze percussion instruments, and to the most prominent traditional music from Indonesia. Gamelan’s presence at Cornell offers a window into a truly majestic musical form as well as an entry to the study of the fourth most populous nation in the world.
Klenengan: A Gamelan Gathering 2024
Sunday, November 17
11am to 4pm
Klarman Hall, Groos Family Atrium
Free admission
Javanese gamelan at the highest level you’ll hear outside of Indonesia, with special Javanese guests Wakidi Dwidjomartono, I.M. Harjito, and Heni Savitri joining a gathering of leading American players and members of the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble. Feel free to come and go; klenengan (the term for gatherings around gamelan) are informal affairs. Plus, it will be in a public space: the atrium in Klarman Hall, whose exquisite acoustics closely resemble that of pendhapa, the open-walled pavilions in which gamelan is played in Java. Starting no later than 11am and ending no earlier than 4pm, with a hands-on workshop during a lunch break at 1pm.
Read more about the event, and the artists
See Wakidi Dwidjomartono play at the most recent Klenengan Pujangga Laras, a regular gathering in Surakarta that he and his wife Kitsie Emerson (who will also be at our event) oversee
Watch a recent concert featuring compositions by I.M. Harjito, also featuring Heni Savitri as one of the pesindhen
Read more about gamelan at Cornell or about course offerings.
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