1. Overture - Kapi Radja (Melody from North Bali)
2. Angklungan
3. Tumulilingan (Bumblebees sip honey)
4. Baris
5. Gambangan (Ancient Melody)
6. Kebyar
7. Gender Wayang: Angkat-Ankatan (Music for Shadow play)
8. Legong (New York studio recording)
9. Legong [London live]
Recorded originally on September 25, 1952.
Under the direction of Anak Agung Gde Mandara
This is a recording of the music played during the first tour of Balinese musique & dance in the USA in 1952. The show caused a sensation. The group, who had never been out of their remote village of Peliatan, near Ubud, left Indonesia on 21 August 1952. First they went to London, where they were a great success.
In September, they flew on to New York. The Fulton Theatre, Broadway, was sold out for seven straight nights. Everyone courted them. Richard Rodgers, who put on South Pacific with its famous Bali Hai song, came to the show. Ed Sullivan televised parts of the Bumblebee Dance and the Monkey Dance to an audience of 30 million. The American comic actor Joe E. Lewis commented to Ed Sullivan, `I think they were on something.' Then they were off to Boston, Philadelphia, Newark, Washington, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St Louis, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
World Arbiter has reissued the original Columbia Records LP Dancers and Musicians of Bali. The performances were the first modern recordings made of a gamelan orchestra. It is lively, loud and frenetic; 66 minutes 16 seconds digitally restored, originally recorded in September 1952. The 6 minutes' Kebyar composition, which accompanied the Kebyar Duduk dance, is very different from the version used today and therefore historically interesting. dig deeper
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