Seating is limited. Registration is recommended. Walk-ins are also welcome.
Join us for a special performance of West Javanese gamelan music from Pusaka Sunda!
Pusaka Sunda is a 12-member West Javanese performing arts group, led by Burhan Sukarma and based in the San Francisco Bay Area with strong collaborative connections to Bandung, Indonesia. Members of the group are all accomplished musicians who have spent most of their lives learning and performing gamelan music. Founded in 1988 by Burhan and Rae Ann Stahl, Pusaka Sunda provides a voice for Burhan’s own compositions as well as a means for promulgating the traditional music of West Java. The group has performed all over the United States, toured West Java and produced multiple recordings of traditional and original music to great acclaim.
The gamelan ensemble known as degung (or gamelan degung) consists of hanging bronze gongs, gong chimes, metallophones, drums, and suling (bamboo flute) tuned to a pentatonic scale. Degung developed in the aristocratic regencies of colonial West Java to provide refined, courtly listening music.
This event is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Mountain View Library.