Gamelan Son of Lion

Gamelan Son of Lion is a New York ensemble that plays new music written for Javanese-style gamelan. Barbara Benary, Philip Corner and Daniel Goode founded it in 1976, and Benary built most of the instruments. The group works as a composers' collective and repertory ensemble, and is known for the Folkways LP Gamelan in the New World (1979). Gamelan Son of Lion grew out of Benary's teaching at Livingston College, Rutgers, where she built a gamelan from steel strips with resonators made from food cans. Its name translates Benary's surname from Hebrew.