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Senin, 19 Juli 2010

Re: [bali-bali] pelegongan documentation project

Thank you so much for your support Hedi!

If you wish, you can send it to Evie's PayPal account. Just got to www.paypal.com and pay to info@balimusicanddance.com

That is how we received our other recent donations from overseas.

If a bank transfer is easier, we also have a Bank Mandiri account:

Bank: Bank Mandiri (PERSERO) Tbk.
Branch: Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur
Account Number: 1450004652711
Swiftcode: BMRIIDJA
Account Name: Evie Suyadnyani Putu

So far, we have had two lessons with Pak Mandra and have learnt one piece, so things are going well!

Hope you are well - take care!

Vaughan

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Hedi Hinzler <hinzler@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Vaughan, yes, I will donate 25 Euro, that is about 275.000 Rp. But how to get it in Bali, since I am at the moment still in Holland. If necessary, you can pick up the money in Tabanan with Tu Man. Otherwise you have to wait till September, because then I am in Bali again. Best wishes, Hedi Hinzler.

2010/7/8 Vaughan Hatch <vaughanhatch@gmail.com>

Dear Lovers of Balinese Classical Gamelan & Dance

Since the death of I Ketut Nagi last month, there is only one musician left in Banjar Singgi, Sanur (I Wayan Mandra who is nearly 70) who remembers the extremely rare pelegongan repertoire learnt in the 1950s from I Kecug of Kelandis. It is probable that many of these pieces were composed by either I Nyoman Kaler or Gusti Putu Geria, two of Denpasar's most famous early 20^th century composers. There are also several pieces by Lotring which are played in a completely different style from other villages. In Kelandis (many of you would have seen the gamelan on those wonderful 1930s legong clips and on the movie Legong – Dance of the Virgins), only two pieces from this repertoire remain and it is Banjar Singgi that retains the largest number of pieces (around 15 compositions).

The musicians at Mekar Bhuana Conservatory plans to document this piece by engaging I Wayan Mandra to teach the pieces and then record two albums' worth of music. This will take several months, so we plan to start straight away (this Sunday, July 11^th). It is truly an emergency preservation project, and we have no funding to do this, so via this email we are appealing for financial support. This could be in the form of a donation, sponsorship, patronage or complete funding for this project. Even if we got 100 people donating IDR200,000 (USD22) each, that would help us get started on recording an album. Everyone in the international gamelan community would benefit from this because this rare music would be documented for posterity.

If anyone or any organization/company/university is interested in sponsoring this worthwhile project, please contact us (info@balimusicanddance.com) and we will send you our budget for this and how much we need to raise to document this rare music for future generations of Balinese and gamelan lovers worldwide. Donations can also be made via our website (www.balimusicanddance.com) by clicking the 'Donate' button.

You can hear examples of the sound of our antique five-keyed pelegongan on our website: www.balimusicanddance.com/multimedia/audio and there is some video of our recent pelegongan performance at the Bali Arts Festival on the Pesta Kesenian Bali Facebook Page; http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=1337383391099 ; http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=1336593931363 ; and http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=1337048782734

Thank you one and all for your support!

Vaughan Hatch & Putu Evie Suyadnyani

Co-founders

Mekar Bhuana Conservatory

www.balimusicanddance.com

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