Fifteen meters away from the road leading to BatuanA dike is found on the mountain slopeSomeone goes down to the river and singsFollowing the sound of the streams flowing over stones.

ACCOMPANIED by a quartet of violinists, soprano Nyak Ina Raseuki opened the story of Pastoral. Ubietthe name by which this soprano is more familiarly knownstarted the story of a sensual experience of two lovers in a village in Bali. Then another soprano, Binu D. Suka