2017-18 Concert Season
Sunday November 19th 2017:
3 PM, at 8514 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Music for the Balinese Shadow Play: an informal performance and lecture/demonstration by Whitman and members of Gamelan Semara Santi, at
From Bali to Bala: a gallery exhibit and sale of Indonesian handcrafts and contemporary batik paintings by local artist Laura F. Cohn
Admission: free.
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Sunday December 3rd 2017:
7:30 PM: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College.
Winter Concert of Gamelan Semara Santi with the Indonesian Cultural Club of Delaware
Traditional and Modern Music and Dance from Bali, Indonesia. Co-directed by Lidya Darmawan, Ni Luh Kadek Kusuma Dewi, I Nyoman Suadin, and Thomas Whitman.
Admission: free; families with children especially welcome.
Saturday January 13th, 2018:
St. Clements Episcopal Church, 2013 Appletree Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 7:30 pm
Concert by Melomanie with soprano Clara Rottsolk. Includes the premiere of Whitman’s Lenten is Comen/Worldes Blis, Cantata for Soprano and Baroque Ensemble.
Sunday January 14th, 2018:
The Delaware Contemporary, 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington DE 19810, 2 PM
Concert by Melomanie with soprano Clara Rottsolk. Program includes Lenten is Comen/Worldes Blis, Cantata for Soprano and Baroque Ensemble.
Sunday April 8th 2018:
Spring Concert of Gamelan Semara Santi with the Indonesian Cultural Club of Delaware
3 PM in the Scott Outdoor Auditorium (rain location: Lang Concert Hall), Swarthmore College
Traditional and Modern Music and Dance from Bali, Indonesia. Co-directed by Lidya Darmawan, Ni Luh Kadek Kusuma Dewi, I Nyoman Suadin, and Thomas Whitman.
Admission: free; families with children especially welcome.
Sunday April 15th 2018:
3 pm: a second performance of the April 8th Gamelan Semara Santi concert in Hawthorne Park, 1200 Catherine Street, Philadelphia, 19147, 3 pm.
Admission: free; families with children especially welcome.
Sunday April 22nd 2018:
Preview showing of a new ballet, composed in collaboration with choreographer Olivia Sabee, performed by Agora Dance.
3 PM in the Lang Performing Arts Center, large dance studio, Swarthmore College.
Tuesday April 24th 2018:
World Premiere of a new work for Flute, Viola, and Harp, commissioned by the Dolce Suono Ensemble commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy.
7 PM Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia.
Friday April 27th 2018:
World Premiere of a new ballet, composed in collaboration with choreographer Olivia Sabee, performed by Agora Dance.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, Washington DC