Sekar Gedhogan
Community Orchestra
Events



UPCOMING
Wayang Kulit Performance
8 September 2006

Wisanggeni Gugat 2006.

Gamelan Talu. Rise and fall, sing:

I intend to pray
My prayer is the song of Solomon
Sung at the wedding of the Goddess of the moon
Who gave bith in the crater of our volcano
To the child who was later known as the master of the stage.

And presently
Everyone fron around our vocano has gathered
To greet the new born baby who has been named The Best Shop In The World
And all feel great love and compassion
For love is from Allah La ilah ha ilallah Muhammadar Rasulullah.

Nang ning neng nung
Victory clarity prosperity contentment

Walk thee from the North to the South
Do not look to the East do not look to the West
Let there be no Ego let there be no Anticipation or pretention
Let there manifest the Eternal Soul
And the Eternal Soul has no form.


Out comes the gunungan and it twirls around, then its tip touches the top and the bottom of the screen, and finally it is stuck in on the right side.
Dok!Dok! Dok!


ACT ONE

In the palace of Manikmantaka, a demon kingdom somewhere not far from Heaven. The king and his ministers are preparing to attack heaven for revenge of the death of the late king Niwatakawaca, killed at the gates of heaven he was attacking, by the human hero of Jawa, Arjuna. The demons go to war…


Come brothers lets drink today tomorrow we go to war!

Show me the way to the next whiskey bar
Show me the way to the next whiskey bar


ACT TWO

In the village of Karang kedhempel Semar is unhappy because his children are quarelling all the time and also, there has been a theft! All the magical weapons of Arjuna have bee stolen and thus Jawa is no not properly protected.

His children--Gareng, Petruk, and Bagong--fight all the time so Semar tries to make peace.
Suddenly there is an earthquake and out comes Antaboga, the God of the Earth, with a young man who looks just like Arjuna, wanting to know who he is. Antaboga asks Semar and his sons to escort Wisanggeni to heaven to find out who he really is and why he was found in the sea with venomous bites in his neck.


ACT THREE

On the way to heaven, Wisanggeni and company are accosted by the army of Manikmantaka and they fight and win. They get to the gates of heaven and are not allowed in so they figh their way in and they win. In the end Wisanggeni fights Brahma and Brahma loses, then acknowledges that indeed Wisanggeni is Arjuna’s son from Dewi Badranala, so he is his grandson. It was Brahma who bit his neck, at the orders of Batara Guru.

Wisanggeni finds Batara Guru and beats him up and saves his mother from being forced to marry Batara Guru’s youngest son, Dewasrani, who had stolen all Arjuna’s weapons in the hope of marrying Badranala and becoming the hero of Jawa.


Go away go away
Evil spirits go away
Yes go away Time and Destruction go away!

Evil in my head
Evil in my limbs
Evil that the eye can’t see

Evil in throat
Evil in my hairs
Evil in my energy

Go away now I command you!
Go back to where you came from!


THE END




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