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Indonesian drummer-composer Wahyu Roche.
Gamelan features U.S. and Indonesian guests, work by Maine composer

Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:18 pm

Guest artists from Indonesia and the U.S. and a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ composer all have a part in the March 31 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Gamelan concert.

Indonesian shadow puppets, orchestral concert make for intriguing evenings in Olin Concert Hall

Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:29 pm

At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Orchestra presents a program including a work by conductor Philip Carlsen, a setting of poems by renowned Maine writer Wesley McNair. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, Indonesian puppet master Joko Susilo will present a shadow-puppet performance of "The Abduction of Sinta," a central story from the Hindu epic Ramayana. Susilo will be accompanied by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Gamelan Mawar Mekar ("blossom of inspiration"), an Indonesian-style gamelan orchestra, and guest musicians from New Hampshire and Minnesota. Both events take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, 75 Russell St., and are open to the public at no charge. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Orchestra and pioneering American composer to perform in weekend concerts

Friday, January 30, 2004 9:20 am

In a big weekend for music, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College music department offers a concert by the college orchestra and one by pioneering American composer Pauline Oliveros.

Collaborations distinguish gamelan concerts

Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:37 am

In Olin Arts Center Concert Hall performances a week apart, Indonesian-style orchestra breaks new ground for the Maine music scene. A concert at 8 p.m. Friday, March 28, pairs the Gamelan Mawar Mekar with the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Orchestra, a collaboration that may well be Maine's first between the traditional Indonesian form and a Western-style orchestra.