Bali's leading dancer slain (Anonymous, set by I. Anhalt) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


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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István Anhalt (1919-)

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