Jakarta has new venue for good music
Jakarta has new venue for good music
JAKARTA (JP): Classical music, a struggling art in this
country, may get a much welcomed shot in the arm when, on Sept.
17, the Bulevar Park Royal Hotel, Jl. S. Parman, West Jakarta,
opens it doors to commence a program which, it is hoped, will
become a regular feature of its activities: performances of good
music.
They differ from the run-of-the-mill presentations of
classical music in other hotels, where small groups are installed
in lobbies, playing for a handful of people who half-listen to
the music. The performances at Park Royal will be given in a
proper concert-hall setting in the hotel's main auditorium, and
will have an additional advantage for audiences, who will be able
to avail themselves of the hotel's outlets offering refreshments
before and after a concert as well as during intermissions.
The first concert on Sept. 17 is also something of an effort
to revive whatever is left of an orchestra that has been dormant
for a number of years, the Jakarta Symphony Orchestra (JSO).
Not the whole orchestra will be performing on that evening but
a group that consists of members of JSO led by conductor Yudianto
Hinupurwadi, who is no stranger to the world of classical music
activities in Jakarta because he used to be JSO's conductor. The
new musical group, some 25 members, is known as the Jakarta
Symphonic Ensemble and includes teachers and advanced students of
the Indonesian Institute of Fine Arts in Yogyakarta. Yudianto
Hinupurwadi is also a teacher of woodwind instruments, flute and
clarinet in particular.
It is the hotel's general manager, Peter Hassler and his wife
Laura, who studies the flute with Yudianto, who are the main
initiators of the series of musical events. The first program, as
well as those that follow, are designed as charity events, and
proceeds of the Sept. 17 event will go to handicapped children.
The program will offer works by Mozart, Doppler and Vivaldi.
The major presentation is a concerto for two pianos by Mozart,
featuring noted pianist Irawati Sudiarso. The second pianist is
none other than her daughter, Aisha Ariadna, who completed her
studies recently at the Manhattan School of Music and has already
gained considerable experience as a performer in various
countries.
Other compositions featuring soloists are the Hungarian
Pastorale by Doppler, a work for flute solo and orchestra, and
the Concerto in C-Major for two trumpets by Vivaldi.
For further information about this charity concert, please
contact Henni at 56960888, extension 7606. (Gus Kairupan)