Another instance of this fusion of distinct entities is in the pervasive technique of interlocking Balinese Concert Fall 2019 figuration, heard in the smaller keyed metallophones and in the , the long row of kettles played by four musicians. As with the instruments, the players are paired: each plays part of a Music Building Auditorium figuration, and the two parts interlock to form a complete melody that is faster and more Saturday, December 7, 2019 complex than one person could play. The principle here extends into most aspects of Balinese 2:00 PM life and philosophy: male and female, life and death, earth and sky are all instances of separate entities that combine to make a larger unity. Program:

1. Pemungkah In Bali, art performances are always proceeded by an act of offering and prayer. Pemungkah, meaning “to open” or “to begin” is a ritual in which the musicians and dancers process into the performance area to present an offering and request the presence of Sanghyang Taksu, the divine spirit who is asked to inhabit the bodies of performers and guide their performance. The accompanying processional music is called Gamelan Sekatian.

Arranger: I Ketut Gede Asnawa Performers: All musicians and dancers

2. Mungkah Lawang Dance (2019) “Mungkah lawang” meaning to “open the gate”, choreographically appears as an inspiration to the excitement of young women to learn dance. As stated on this poem: “ongkek ongkek ongke, ongkek kayu lengkong, nyen jegeg ngole, ento pilih anggo legong”, suggests to every girl who looks beautiful at the moment must be chosen to be a dancer. In Balinese dance, “mungkah lawang” also means the hand movements at the very beginning of dance which signals the dance is started.

Choreographer: Putu Oka Mardiani Asnawa Composer: I Ketut Gede Asnawa Dancers: Annika Kulkarni, Jin Wang, Xiahe Candice Li, and Ariel Chang Musicians: Student Ensemble Class

3. Gopala Dance Gopala was created in 1984 and is usually performed by four or eight young dancers. The dance portrays the life of child cattle-herders who joyfully meet and play along the boundaries of the rice fields while tending their cows.

Choreographer: I Nyoman Suarsa Composer: I Ketut Gede Asnawa Dancers: Yunirika Asnawa, Ika Putri, Maria Rebecca Gayatri, and Widya Aulia Ramadhani Musicians: Student Ensemble Class

4. Kebyar Panganjali Gamelan Director: I Ketut Gede Asnawa Kebyar literally means to “burst open” or “explosiveness”, refers to the style of music Dance Teacher: Putu Oka Mardiani Asnawa and dance which burst onto the scene in North Bali in 1915. Panganjali means the hand Coordinator: Jason Finkelman gesture to greet everyone. Kebyar Panganjali is an instrumental piece composed as musical gesture to greet and celebrate the rich cultural arts of Bali for the guests or the audience. Student Ensemble Class: This piece symbolizes the sense of unity and diversity in community. Tara Hatfield, Christina Horton, Annika Kulkarni, Ravi Kiran Donepadi, Jason Sharma, Nurul Nasrin Morshidi, and Allie Muisenga. Guest musicians: Putu Oka Mardiani Asnawa, Yunirika Asnawa, and Composer: I Ketut Gede Asnawa Yonitika Asnawa. Musicians: Community Gamelan Ensemble Directed by I Ketut Gede Asnawa

5. Bintang Siang Community Gamelan Ensemble: This instrumental piece is conceptualized from gamelan Palegongan (court ensemble) Putu Oka Mardiani Asnawa, Yunirika Asnawa, Yonitika Asnawa, Elizabeth Stern, Christina Horton, style. Bintang Siang describes the brightness of the stars in the daytime by showing the Maria Rebecca Gayatri, Deborah Gayatri, Widya Aulia Ramadhani, Noni Hartono Ledford, Grace melodic progression and interposing the , interlocking part to represent the Ledford, Karthik Kakarala, Leonardus Sudibyo, A.A. Nugroho, Ika Putri, Muhamad Faris Safiy. Joal vastness of the stars. Plutchak, Annika Kulkarni, Nicole Vandervlugt, and Julie Bumpus. Directed by I Ketut Gede Asnawa. Composer: I Gusti Putu Geria Musicians: Student Ensemble Class For more information on Balinese Gamelan classes, please visit the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music website: http://cwm.illinois.edu or email: [email protected].

6. Cendrawasih Dance Cendrawasih is a dance depicting birds of paradise. Two young women act as a female About Bali and Balinese Music bird and her male mate. They tease one another by showing off their colorful feathers. Bali is one of the 6,000 inhabited islands (and 11,500 uninhabited ones) that make up the The long red and gold skirts and the Panji-like headdresses, crescent shaped with two Republic of Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation in the world. In area, Bali is a bit larger long feathers, are distinctive of this dance. than Rhode Island and a bit smaller than Delaware. Its 4,5 million inhabitants (who account Choreographer: Swasti Wijaya Bandem for a little over 2% of the population of Indonesia) are overwhelmingly Hindu, making Bali a Composer: I Wayan Beratha and I Nyoman Windha Hindu enclave in largely Muslim Indonesia. Since the 1930s, Bali has been a magnet for artists Dancers: Yonitika Asnawa and Ika Putri and anthropologists, and it is now the principal tourist destination of Indonesia. One of its Musicians: Student Ensemble Class primary attractions is the extraordinary vitality of its visual and performing arts.

Balinese music is dominated by the bronze orchestras known as gamelan. Gamelan is also the main music of neighboring Java, but while Java has only a few different types of gamelan, Bali has developed many varieties, each with distinctive instrumentations, tunings, and repertoires. In our concert today you will hear music played on the versatile seven-tone gamelan Semara Dhana, which can play not only seven-tone compositions but also the music of five-tone gamelan such as gamelan Kebyar. One feature you should listen for in Balinese music is the principle of complementarity, in which two distinct entities fuse to make a third that is richer than either on its own. You will hear this in the tuning of the instruments: most instruments are tuned in pairs, with one pitched slightly lower than the other, so that when the “same” key is played on both instruments simultaneously the acoustic beats produce a shimmering effect. Neither instrument of the pair has the “correct” pitch – it is the combination of the two that makes the complete sound.