{"id":1634,"date":"2020-01-03T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2020-01-03T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:31:07","slug":"best-of-the-year-the-gamelan-experience-from-debussy-to-lou-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/2020\/01\/best-of-the-year-the-gamelan-experience-from-debussy-to-lou-harrison.html","title":{"rendered":"“Best of the Year” — The Gamelan Experience: From Debussy to Lou Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PostClassical Ensemble\u2019s \u201cCultural Fusion: The Gamelan Experience,\u201d presented on January 23, 2019, at the Washington National Cathedral, was just named THE BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC EVENT of 2019 by Washington Classical Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To hear extended excerpts from this one-of-a-kind event — featuring Javanese and Balinese gamelans, and surveying more than a century of gamelan-inspired concert works \u2013 click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read a pertinent blog, click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read what Sudip Bose had\nto say in The American Scholar<\/em>, read\non: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI finally heard both\na Javanese and a Balinese gamelan. In collaboration with the Indonesian\nEmbassy, the PostClassical Ensemble\u2014one of the most innovative and stimulating\ngroups around\u2014traced the intricate connections between Java, Bali, and the\nWest. . . . Lou Harrison\u2019s colossal Piano Concerto from 1985 . . .  was the piece I was most eager to hear, its\nopening movement as vast as a canyon, the second filled with nimble virtuosity,\nthe slow movement an extended prayer that gives way to a fleet finale. . . . How\ncould so magnificent a concerto be so woefully neglected?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese days, the word fusion\n. . . <\/em>has become a clich\u00e9. But here was a vivid, persuasive argument in\nfavor of embracing a fluid world culture. Works of the imagination should not\nbe limited by borders, or by walls, and when art is born out of reverence, we\nthe public should not be impeded by questions of ownership and accusations of\nappropriation. Not when the artworks in question move and enrich us all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read the whole review, click here. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PostClassical Ensemble\u2019s \u201cCultural Fusion: The Gamelan Experience,\u201d presented on January 23, 2019, at the Washington National Cathedral, was just named THE BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC EVENT of 2019 by Washington Classical Review. To hear extended excerpts from this one-of-a-kind event — featuring Javanese and Balinese gamelans, and surveying more than a century of gamelan-inspired concert works […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QLHN-qm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}