20231024_Old Time_Gamlan

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents the

FSU Old Time Ensemble Aisha Ivey, Director and

Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Balinese Gamelan Michael Bakan, Director

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:30 p.m. | Opperman Music Hall

To Ensure An Enjoyable Concert Experience For All… Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting during performances. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Recording or broadcasting of the concert by any means, including the use of digital cameras, cell phones, or other devices is expressly forbidden. Please deactivate all portable electronic devices including watches, cell phones, pagers, hand-held gaming devices or other electronic equipment that may distract the audience or performers.

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PROGRAM Old Time Ensemble Old Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm

Traditional

Lily of the Valley

Traditional

Going Across the Sea

Traditional

Cumberland Gap

The Gappers

Man of Constant Sorrow

Froggy Bottom Boys

Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County (1936) Smoke Behind the Clouds Goin’ to Town

Traditional Traditional

Arthur Smith Traditional

with special guests The Hot Pepper Steppers Cheyenne Alderson, Mary Allgire, April Denny Drew Thomas, Cassia Wagner, Heather Young

Old Time Ensemble Personnel Zoe Ashberg, Sofia Blanco, Shiloh DeFabia, Brennan Donnelly, Josie Frein Aisha Ivey, Casey Kerr, Miles Kreutzer, Sydney Levy, Bethany Masiello Peggy Munroe, Bex Pennell, Jaden Sanzo, Keeley Sawyer, Makayla Sawyer Erin Scott, Hannah Sheats, Phillip Teagarden, Drew Thomas

INTERMISSION

Traditional

Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Baris

Traditional arr. M. Bakan

Sinom Ladrang

Traditional arr. M. Bakan

Beleganjur Guruh dan Guntur (2023)

Michael Bakan

Kecak

Traditional arr. M. Bakan

NOTES Baris – A staple of the Balinese dance music repertoire, this piece customarily accompanies a solo dance by an elaborately costumed warrior character. In this instrumental arrangement, feature sections have been incorporated to highlight the unique interlocking figurations of the reyong gong-chime, gangsa metallophones, and kendang drums.

Sinom Ladrang – This classic piece was composed centuries ago for the royal gamelan semar pegulingan, or “gamelan of the love god’s pillow room.” Pieces such as this were performed outside the palace bedchamber during the king’s amorous encounters. This arrangement attempts to capture the unique timbre and aesthetic of semar pegulingan music on FSU’s gamelan gong kebyar, a more modern type of ensemble. Features like the prominent suling bamboo flute, high-pitched bells, small-sized kendang drums, and a lead melody played on the reyong in place of its lowerpitched trompong counterpart, all serve the purpose of capturing a semar pegulingan-like sound.

Beleganjur Guruh dan Guntur – Beleganjur is the processional gamelan of warfare and spirit battles with underworld forces in Bali. It is music of power. In this newly created piece, we emphasize the power of our brand new gongs, making their debut in this concert. Their names are Guruh and Guntur, references to the powers of thunder and divine forces. These names, bequeathed to the gongs by Dr. Indra Sadguna, former director of Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung and faculty member of the Indonesian Institute of Performing Arts in Bali, doubly serve to honor our great guru I Ketut Sukarata, aka Tut Nang, whose heirloom drums in his native banjar, Belaluan Sadmerta, are named Guruh and Guntur as well.

Kecak – Descending from an ancient trance-dance ritual called Sanghyang Dedari, or “trance dance of the celestial nymphs,” the mesmerizing gamelan suara, or “vocal gamelan,” texture of the Balinese Kecak dance drama is featured in this vocal percussion arrangement, in which we invite you, the audience, to join us in some veritable monkey business (the drama enacts a battle featuring an army of mythic monkey warriors from the Hindu epic Ramayana).

Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Personnel Jane Achenbach, Michael Bakan, Julian Duncan, Shawn Havery, Alex Hollyn Emma Knapp , Xiaoqing Li, Nick Montoya, Abby Odom, Adrienne Tedjamulia Read Liz Rey, Ariel Rodriguez, Maia Saraeva, Xixi Shen, Daniel “Sully” Sullivan Lizzy Wasson, Jescelyn Wijaya, Alyssa Witherington, Madison Zuel