by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Bali's leading dancer slain
Language: English
Bali's leading dancer slain. Bali's most famous dancer, twenty-eight years old Sam-Pih has been murdered on that one-time paradise Isle, letters from Indonesia reported today. Sam-Pih headed the noted Balinese dancing troupe which scored successes in london and the United States in nineteen fifty-two. Impressario John Coast of London, who brought the Balinese dancers and a gamelan orchestra to the outside world for the first time in a generation, for the first time, impressario John Coast of... received news Sam-Pih had been strangled and his body found floating in the Lauh river which flows by his village of Sayan in southeast Bali.
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- by István Anhalt (1919 - 2012), "Bali's leading dancer slain", 1954 [ voice, violin, cello, and piano ], from Comments, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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