Happenings at Pequot Library this weekend

Dear Friend of Pequot Library:
A wonderful weekend at Pequot:

Saturday brings a musical experience from another world –The Wesleyan U. GAMELAN ORCHESTRA & WAYANG PUPPETS.

---Tonight and tomorrow we show the movie Gone With the Wind. We’ve moved the big soft leather chairs from the reading room into the auditorium for the first 10 current PLA members who register for the movie. Go here to reserve yours: http://www.pequotlibrary.org/index.php/calendar-events/icalrepeat.detail/2011/04/08/5982/-/movie-night-gone-with-the-wind-

---Sunday is the great fusion pianist Simon Mulligan bridging the world of classical and Jazz and co-presented with the Westport Arts Center. http://www.pequotlibrary.org/index.php/calendar-events/icalrepeat.detail/2011/04/10/1101/-/westport-arts-center-concert-by-simon-mulligan


Free Young Person’s Concert
GAMELAN ORCHESTRA & WAYANG PUPPETS
Saturday, April 09
2:00pm - 3:00pm
At Trinity Church
Gamelan music is the pulse of Yogyakarta, cultural center of Java. It is a mesmerizing experience with its insinuating, liquid melodies. It is an integral part of Javanese dance dramas and the ever popular puppet shows.
Indonesian Professor Sumarsam comes to the FREE Young Persons’ Concerts from Wesleyan University, bringing his Javanese Gamelan orchestra and Wayang Kulit puppets to perform a scene from an all-night Wayang Kulit performance. Wayang Kulit is the traditional Javanese shadow play, enacted with flat leather puppets. Gamelan refers to musical ensembles from the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia and the music played by them.
Perang Kembang, or The Flower Battle, is the puppet play to be shown at the FREE Young Persons’ Concert. It is the story of Arjuna, the hero, and his servant/companion Semar and Semar’s three buffoonish sons, who furnish comic relief. After Arjuna and his companions are accosted by the fanged demon Cakil, Arjuna and Cakil do battle. Perang Kempang is the Flower Battle in which the puppeteer demonstrates his skill at the intricate manipulation of multiple puppets. Arjuna, because of his prowess as a warrior, defeats the evil Cakil, thanks to the virtuoso performance of Professor Sumarsam, the puppeteer or dalang for our performance.
Professor Sumarsam, who hails from Yogyakarta in central Java, brings to our concert a 16-piece Gamelan that consists primarily of bronze percussion instruments – various sizes of gong and gong-chimes and various types of metellophones and a xylophone. Also included is a rebab, or two-stringed fiddle. The kendhang, or drum, functions as a conductor, setting tempos and
Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble directed by I.M. Harjito and Sumarsam
No Master Classes.
**Please note: this concert takes place at TRINITY CHURCH in Southport, CT.
For more information please click here or call 203-227-1611.
Location : TRINITY CHURCH 651 Pequot Avenue Southport, CT 06890

Daniel Snydacker
Executive Director
Pequot Library
720 Pequot Avenue, Southport, CT 06890
Snydacker@Pequotlibrary.org