SOLD-OUT - Javanese Shadow Puppet Show with Gamelan Music
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SOLD-OUT - Javanese Shadow Puppet Show with Gamelan Music
On this Saturday evening in late April, the audience will be in for an incredibly special experience, one that is exceedingly rare in this country. A wayang kulit, aka a Javanese shadow puppet show, will be performed at the House of Music, accompanied by a monumental international gamelan orchestra. At this once-in-a-lifetime event, the ancient Javanese story The Deep Meditation of Arjuna will be projected onto the screen by one of the world's greatest masters of shadow puppetry, Purbo Asmoro Dhalang, who hails from Java, Indonesia. He will also show how the puppeteer brings the beautifully crafted puppets to life. And it's not simply an added bonus that, in addition to the Surya Kencana A, a gamelan orchestra of Hungarian musicians supported by the Indonesian Embassy in Budapest, Agus Prasetyo from the Indonesian Embassy in Prague – the current teacher of the Surya Kencana A orchestra – and Purbo Asmoro the gamelan musician, composer and puppeteer who will be bringing six other musicians and singers from Java – making for a rich orchestral line-up. Purbo Asmoro comes from Pacitan, East Java, and has at least six generations of dhalang in his family.
Purbo Asmoro is one of the best-known shadow puppeteers not only in Java but also around the world, so it is really sensational to be able to see and hear him perform the story of Arjuna's Deep Meditation live. In the shadow play, the puppeteer also directs the accompanying gamelan orchestra, which mostly performs on metal percussive instruments. The play, performed in its original language, simultaneously interpreted into English by a wayang scholar and translator, Kathryn Emerson, who has been studying gamelan and wayang scholar (Javanese shadow theatre) since 1991. Purbo Asmoro will be accompanied by a small troupe of master musicians and singers from his hometown of Solo in Java, led by Wakidi Dwidjomartono, and complemented by the gamelan troupe from Budapest.
The sponsor of the event is the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Budapest.
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Arjuna's deep meditation
On this Saturday evening in late April, the audience will be in for an incredibly special experience, one that is exceedingly rare in this country. A wayang kulit, aka a Javanese shadow puppet show, will be performed at the House of Music, accompanied by a monumental international gamelan orchestra. At this once-in-a-lifetime event, the ancient Javanese story The Deep Meditation of Arjuna will be projected onto the screen by one of the world's greatest masters of shadow puppetry, Purbo Asmoro Dhalang, who hails from Java, Indonesia. He will also show how the puppeteer brings the beautifully crafted puppets to life. And it's not simply an added bonus that, in addition to the Surya Kencana A, a gamelan orchestra of Hungarian musicians supported by the Indonesian Embassy in Budapest, Agus Prasetyo from the Indonesian Embassy in Prague – the current teacher of the Surya Kencana A orchestra – and Purbo Asmoro the gamelan musician, composer and puppeteer who will be bringing six other musicians and singers from Java – making for a rich orchestral line-up. Purbo Asmoro comes from Pacitan, East Java, and has at least six generations of dhalang in his family.
Purbo Asmoro is one of the best-known shadow puppeteers not only in Java but also around the world, so it is really sensational to be able to see and hear him perform the story of Arjuna's Deep Meditation live. In the shadow play, the puppeteer also directs the accompanying gamelan orchestra, which mostly performs on metal percussive instruments. The play, performed in its original language, simultaneously interpreted into English by a wayang scholar and translator, Kathryn Emerson, who has been studying gamelan and wayang scholar (Javanese shadow theatre) since 1991. Purbo Asmoro will be accompanied by a small troupe of master musicians and singers from his hometown of Solo in Java, led by Wakidi Dwidjomartono, and complemented by the gamelan troupe from Budapest.
The sponsor of the event is the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Budapest.
