Re-interpreting Pak Kanjeng's Gending

Young composers in Yogyakarta are trying to re-interpret and "modernize" Tjokrowasito's gending.

August 3, 2004

IG. Bagus Wiswakarma, a graduate of Hochschule für Music und Theater in Hamburg, appeared on the stage of the Purna Budaya in Yogyakarta with a violin in his hands. By his side stood Asep Hidayat, who once played with Heinrich Schueltz Ensemble in Japan, with a cello. Behind the two lay a set of gamelan, most of whose niyaga (players), out on the floor, were Japanese and American. Together they would play Kuwi Apa Kuwi, a gending of s

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