gamelan group
Marsudi Raras

Nederlandse versie

• 22-jan-2012 The recordings that Jos Janssen made of our 30-year jubilee concert are on-line under audio.
• 17-dec-2011 After the opening today of the batik-exhibition we take a break, the rehearsals start again on 14 January 2012.
• 26-nov-2011 The first video of our performance with dance group Parikasit is online: Sukaretna.
• 01-oct-2011 The programme booklet and poster of the performance on 19 November 2011 are available and sale of tickets has started.
• 18-jun-2011 A performance will be held on 19 November 2011 to celebrate 30 years of Marsudi Raras.
• 18-jun-2011 Next Saturday 25 June 2011 is the last rehearsal before the summer holiday, we start again on 3 September.
• 15-jul-2010 Radio Netherlands Worldwide made a movie about our group, also at youtube.
• 30-jan-2010 Again a special rehearsal: snow outside and new notasi inside
• 09-jan-2010 Some photos of our first rehearsal of the new year with visitors from Solo.

Gamlean group Marsudi Raras started playing at the Museum of Ethnography Nusantara in Delft, the Netherlands in 1981, directed by Niels Walen. In 2002 Paul van der Put took over the musical direction. From January 2006 Suhardi Djojoprasetyo is the musical leader of the group. Legally the association was started on 11 September 1987 in Rotterdam.

The name Marsudi Raras is Javanese and has a meaning close to `the subdued search for harmony'. The group studies playing authentic Central Javanese gamelan music in the style of the court of Surakarta (Solo). We have about 15 members and rehearse almost every Saturday in the Museum of Ethnography Nusantara in Delft, the Netherlands from 11:30 to 14:00. The rehearsals are on the more than 100 year old gamelan Kyahi Paridjata. We perform regularly both in the museum and elsewhere and give workshops for adults and children. For events outside of the museum the group has its own slendro gamelan Kyahi Hamongkarsa.

On this web site we have collected some of our recordings, both audio and video, a selection of the scores, and samples and photos of the gamelan Kyahi Paridjata.

Board:

Chairman:	Francis van Kruining
Treasurer:	Dick Rijsenberg
Secretary:	Marijke van Kruining

For more information about the group and inquiries about performances please contact:
Marijke en Francis van Kruining,
Bolkruid 4, 3068 DN, Rotterdam.
Tel.: 010-4.21.25.73
E-mail: francisvk@zonnet.nl

Webmaster: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh