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FROG’s Javanese Ensemble performs “Innovation through Tradition”
May 18 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
FROG’s Javanese Ensemble performs “Innovation through Tradition”. With guest artists Heni Savitri and Darsono Hadiraharjo.
Constellation’s Links Hall
3111 N. Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618 $15/general ticket
Join an evening of gamelan music centered around the boundless influences of the late Ki Nartsabdho, one of the most influential Javanese gamelan musicians of the last half century. Featured works, selected by Artistic Director Alex Yoffe, are composed by, directly inspired by, or transformed by esteemed Javanese composer Ki Nartosabdho.
You can watch the livestream here.
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Since 1980, Friends of the Gamelan has been Chicago’s premier ensemble that performs traditional Javanese gamelan music. Led by Artistic Director Alex Yoffe, the nonprofit provides quality instruction, performs world-class concerts, and presents engaging workshops with students, families, and gamelan appreciators of all ages and abilities throughout the Chicago area and beyond. In the late 1970s, a group began to meet regularly at the Field Museum to play on the same gamelan instruments from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Eventually the instruments were archived and the ensemble acquired new instruments.
Today’s set of instruments was acquired by FROG in the 2000s. The ensemble has performed at various stages throughout Chicago, including Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion, the Field Museum, Navy Pier, and the Old Town School of Folk Music, to name a few.
