Win Tickets ($40): Venerable Showers of Beauty @ Lewis & Clark | Gamelan, Indonesian Music
November 7, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEPipeline is giving away a pair of tickets to see Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan at Lewis & Clark College on Saturday, November 12. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Friday, November 11.
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From our sponsors at Venerable:
Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan
Saturday, November 12
8 p.m. | $20 | All Ages
www.vsbgamelan.org
Evans Auditorium @ Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Lewis & Clark College's Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan will perform traditional pieces and contemporary works for western instruments and full choir, including a North American premiere, on November 12, 2011 at Evans Auditorium at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR.
The 15 member ensemble, one of the Pacific Northwest's first and most enduring world music groups, will be joined by special guest artists Ki Midiyanto, female vocalist Peni Candra Rini from Java, guest musicians from Seattle's Gamelan Pacifica, Portland ensemble Northwest New Music and Lewis & Clark's Community Chorale.
Master teacher and performer Ki Midiyanto, a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, and Peni Candra Rini, a renowned singer and composer from Central Java, will perform traditional music of Java with members of VSB, directed by Mindy Johnston, playing the 130-year-old handmade bronze instruments of the gamelan orchestra based at Lewis & Clark.
Cellist Diane Chaplin and percussionist Florian Conzetti from Northwest New Music will join University of Oregon faculty violinist Fritz Gearhart and VSB for a performance of Portland-born composer Lou Harrison’s 1982 Double Concerto for Cello, Violin and Gamelan, one of the most important works by one of the greatest American composers. Lewis and Clark’s Community Chorale, directed by Katherine FitzGibbon, will join VSB musicians for the first American performance of Missa Gongso, a mass written for gamelan and full choir by English composer Neil Sorrell in 2004-05.
November 8, 2011 at 22:01
So excited to find out about this event as I will be visiting Portland this weekend! I heard some gamelan in Bali and loved it so much I’ve been trying to find more live performances. I’m looking forward to hearing Javanese gamelan.
November 9, 2011 at 07:59
I’ve seen this group before – amazing stuff. Really looking forward to this Saturday!
November 9, 2011 at 19:02
My daughter spent some time in Indonesia and she fell in love with their traditional gamalan music. I would love to have this opportunity to attend a live performance so that I can experience first hand what this music is all about and better understand her passion.
November 10, 2011 at 16:45
I am in dire need of some high culture music. No more of this sulking alt rock from Portland’s finest hippies.
November 10, 2011 at 17:00
because I need to break out of my all-techno-club-music habit.
November 10, 2011 at 18:24
Like everyone, I’m poor and can’t afford to go to this. But my friend will be performing with the gamelan ensemble and I’d love to see it.
November 10, 2011 at 19:30
I want to experience a shower of venerable audible beauty. I’m all ears. Would love to attend this exotic musical event.
November 10, 2011 at 20:38
I wish I could afford such an amzing event!
November 10, 2011 at 21:42
I would love to attend this show & reminis about my exciting visit in Bali back in 2004. I heard gamelan music every morning when I would eat breakfast. It was the most serene, meditative & exoticly melodic sound I have ever heard. There is something about the xylophonic tune that resonated with me, just like the Balinese people. They are very humble people & this music is befitting to their culture.
November 11, 2011 at 00:02
I was able to attend a performance by the Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan last year. It was so beautiful and provocative. I would love the opportunity to hear them again, and to share this experience with a friend.
November 11, 2011 at 12:27
Venerable Showers of Beauty…these words alone makes me want to attend! Wishing I had the monies and hopeful I’ll win free tickets, though my luck in winning things is relatively bad.
November 11, 2011 at 17:59
I’m a poor student that is hoping to become a photographer for National Geographic, so the exposure to other cultures and learning experience would be greatly appreciated! Especially if I could bring my camera. ;)