{"id":15119,"date":"2014-04-11T01:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15119"},"modified":"2014-04-11T01:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:37:05","slug":"the-miracle-of-bali-recital-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/11\/the-miracle-of-bali-recital-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miracle of Bali: Recital of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tKvMguF16r0\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gamelan1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gamelan1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a great half-hour film of a type that the BBC used to produce on a regular basis when the corporation was still pursuing the Reithian mission of informing as well as entertaining. <em>The Miracle of Bali<\/em> was originally a series of three half-hour films broadcast in 1969: <em>The Midday Sun<\/em>, <em>Night<\/em>, and <em>Recital of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tKvMguF16r0\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gamelan2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gamelan2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The narrator is David Attenborough who leads us through a range of different music and dance performances from the island. This form of music is very familiar to me\u2014I have several albums of gamelan music from Bali and Java\u2014but I&#8217;ve never seen the instruments themselves presented in such detail before. There&#8217;s a taste of most of the main styles of Balinese music, beginning with a furious recital from a gamelan orchestra. Three dances follow, then the film ends with a stunning performance of the Kecak, or Monkey Chant. This is a common feature of recordings from Bali but seeing it staged takes the performance\u2014which also includes dance and theatre\u2014to a different level entirely. Watch it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tKvMguF16r0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/03\/the-gamelatron\/\">The Gamelatron<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great half-hour film of a type that the BBC used to produce on a regular basis when the corporation was still pursuing the Reithian mission of informing as well as entertaining. The Miracle of Bali was originally a series of three half-hour films broadcast in 1969: The Midday Sun, Night, and Recital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/11\/the-miracle-of-bali-recital-of-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Miracle of Bali: Recital of Music&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[5961,617],"class_list":["post-15119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-television","tag-david-attenborough","tag-gamelan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3VR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}