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Beating Tchaikovsky with the Gamelan

Bernard Goh, Artistic Director, Hands Percussion | Susan Sarah John, Music Director, Hands Percussion

11-Aug-14 14:00

Beating Tchaikovsky with the Gamelan

The marrying two apparently different traditions—Asian and Western—to make music at once familiar and yet new, fresh. but rumour has it that Tchaikovsky heard the gamelan and was enamored of it. So Hands Percussion after dipping its toes into Western classical music, now has it hands, heart and all into it.


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