After the May 6 concert

To start things off, here's a picture of me with Pak Djoko, our guest director for the concert:



The performance itself was excellent - good energy from the musicians, dancers, and the audience. There were certainly many more audience members from last year - back then, we had a miserable attendance of 30. I think we got at least a 100 this time around. It doesn't sound major, but to get an audience which is mostly unfamiliar with the whole culture of gamelan is a major undertaking.

The only thing I had to complain about was the heat inside the concert hall. I think the boilers were on overtime since we had some cool weather in the past days. But on this day, the weather was warm and nice. This, however, meant certain discomfort in an overheated concert hall. At least we were wearing Javanese clothes, which in part were made for (overly) warm conditions...