by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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.
Composition:
- Set to music by István Anhalt (1919 - 2012), no title, 1954 [ voice, violin, cello, and piano ], from Comments, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, newspaper clippings assembled by the composer.
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