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	Colin McPhee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colin McPhee photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1935
		Colin McPhee (February 15, 1900 in Montreal or Toronto, Canada - January 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, CA) was a gay Canadian composer and musicologist.
		McPhee's A House in Bali, the chronicle of his life there, is one of the best introductions to Balinese culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colin_McPhee (367 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> McPhee, Colin
		Belo was aware of McPhee's homosexuality, but she felt that a relationship with "a feminine man" was an important stage in her emotional development, and that it also revealed "aspects of masculine protest and narcissism" on her part.
		McPhee wrote to one friend, "I was in love at the time with a Balinese, which she knew, and to have him continually around was too much for her vanity.
		McPhee was able to live in Bali only because Belo had the money (which came from her family and her wealthy ex-husband) to do so.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/mcphee_c.html (933 words)

	Colin McPhee, A House in Bali
		McPhee had heard recordings of Balinese music in the late 1920s and was completely captivated by the shimmering textures and subtle, complex rhythms.
		Nor are there any overt references to McPhee's affairs with Balinese men, supposedly the final cause of his divorce from Belo (although she knew of his orientation when they were married, and a perceptive reader can easily fill in many blanks).
		McPhee is a gentle commentator, although with enough acerbity to keep the narrative from ever becoming bland, and A House in Bali is a graceful and ultimately fascinating picture -- and perhaps one much truer than any anthropologist has managed so far -- of life in Paradise.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_mcphee_houseinbali.html (628 words)

	Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds By Carol Oja
		McPhee's life and work elucidate important compositional, ethnomusicological, and musicological issues, and presage many of the reasons that the distinctions between these three activities are no longer of much use.
		McPhee's early years are discussed in Chapters 1-3, from his early and quite standard music education in Toronto through his attendance at the Peabody Institute and residencies in New York and Paris, where he began to emerge as a composer.
		Oja's dilemmas as McPhee's biographer is having to argue for a body of music which is considered by many, even those "in the field," to be dated, anachronistic, and generally of not great interest.
	eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~larry/misc_writings/out_of_print/mcphee.rev.html (2029 words)

	Colin McPhee Collection
		Born in Montreal in 1900, Colin McPhee studied composition and piano in Baltimore with Gustave Strube, Arthur Friedheim, Paul La Flem, and Isidore Phillipp.
		It was in 1931 that McPhee first heard recordings of some of then virtually unknown music of the gamelan of Bali, ensembles of tuned gongs, gong chimes, metallophones, cymbals, and drums.
		McPhee made an extensive survey of the many different types of ensembles throughout the island; his house became a center of musical activity; he encouraged and subsidized children's training in music and dance as well as the maintaining of the older musical traditions.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /Archive/mcphee.htm (549 words)

	McPhee, Colin
		During World War II, McPhee was a musical adviser to the US Military Information Office; at the request of the United Nations he composed the music for three documentaries in the 1950s.
		Among McPhee's other compositions may be cited Four Iroquois Dances for orchestra (1944), three symphonies (1930, 1957, 1960) for orchestra, Sea Shanty Suite (1929) for baritone, male choir, two pianos, and two sets of timpani.
		As a writer, McPhee's publications include three works dealing with his years in Indonesia: A House in Bali (New York 1946, 1981), A Club of Small Men (New York 1947), and Music in Bali (New Haven 1957, New York 1976).
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002316 (589 words)

	Carol J. Oja / Colin McPhee
		Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration.
		Carol Oja's Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds traces his life, his influences on fellow musicians, and the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend an entirely new musical language.
		McPhee's legacy is a small body of specialized work, creative and scholarly, that suggested new paths in the music of this century.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s04/oja.html (371 words)

	ESPRIT ORHCESTRA
		Colin Carhart McPhee was born in Montreal in 1900 (the year that Queen Victoria died), but he grew up in Toronto (a place where Victorian morality, at least, was rumoured to be still alive as late as 1965!).
		Colin and Jane used Belo's alimony income to build a comfortable "house" (actually a multi-building Balinese compound) high up in the palm-shrouded hills that surround the island's sacred central volcano.
		McPhee and Briitten and Bowles and Bernstein apparently fought for periodic possession of the grand piano.
	www.espritorchestra.com /content/mcphee.html (2009 words)

	McPhee, Colin "Tabuh-Tabuhan" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		McPhee was a rum-soaked composer who enjoyed the climate of the South Pacific; he was so overtaken by Balinese gamelans that upon returning to the States, he was unable to do anything other than compose in gamelan style.
		He became very depressed and basically drank himself to death in the early '60s as a result of being ignored (or perhaps being labeled as a one-trick-pony).
		Lift your glasses high to the memory of McPhee as you lilt to the warm breezy gamelan-inspired sonic wealth of this oddball work and composer.
	wfmu.org /~kennyg/popular/reviews/mcphee.html (160 words)

	- McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan; Symphony No2 @ Soundbug
		Colin McPhee (1900 - 1964) could easily have been included among that select group of composers known as "American mavericks" had it not been for one minor technicality: McPhee was born in MontrÃ©al and grew up in Toronto.
		Never mind that McPhee studied in New York, under the tutelage of Edgard VarÃ¨se, and eventually settled back in the U.S. for the final two decades of his life after spending a number of years in Bali; he is at least as qualified as are VarÃ¨se and Leo Ornstein to be included in this group.
		McPhee's output was adversely affected by personal and financial problems after World War II, and he never again attained the compositional heights reached in _Tabuh-Tabuhan_, his Pulitzer Prize-winning work from 1936.
	www.soundbug.com /asin/B0000067U3 (822 words)

	Colin McPhee - TheBestLinks.com - Anthropology, Bali, Gay, Margaret Mead, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Colin McPhee - TheBestLinks.com - Anthropology, Bali, Gay, Margaret Mead,...
		Colin McPhee, Anthropology, Bali, Gay, Margaret Mead, Musicology...
		Colin McPhee (Feb 15, 1900 in Montreal or Toronto, Canada - Jan 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, CA) was a gay Canadian composer and musicologist.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Colin_McPhee.html (304 words)

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		McPhee's musical contributions have never really been recognized in Canada and are typically associated with other post WWI— America composers such as Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson.
		Similar to Copland, McPhee was considered an extremely valuable member of the American experimental school, whose compositions had a profound influence on minimal composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Terry Riley.
		Oja speculates on McPhee's apparent rejection of Western compositional styles and maps his tumultuous 35-year effort of writing his treatise on Gamelan music, which is entitled Music of Bali (1956), and which posthumously established him as the world authority on Balinese music.
	www.scena.org /cdsearch1.asp?flag=3&id=1415 (279 words)

	Colin Firth in Nanny McPhee
		A film crew has taken up residence among the oak trees and the sheep; Colin Firth is looking as manfully attractive as you would expect in period breeches and white shirt; Kelly Macdonald by his side, sweetly pretty in crinoline and curls.
		Here, then, is Emma Thompson in her latest incarnation, as Nanny McPhee, the star of the film of the same name; and performing her own screenplay, which has taken seven years to write, based on the original series of Nurse Matilda books by Christianna Brand.
		It is easy to overestimate the gulf between children's taste and that of their parents and grandparents in a modern world but in truth, we are all drawn to the experience of watching a great story unfold, no matter what our age.
	www.firth.com /mcphee.html (3409 words)

	McPhee, Colin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the 1930s, Colin McPhee lived in Bali where he studied the sacred gamelan tradition and other musical genres.
		McPhee was a faculty member of the Music Department at UCLA from 1960-1964.
		More information about the Archive's Colin McPhee Collection is available here.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /Archive/biomcphee.htm (159 words)

	Howard Hanson/ Eastman-Rochester Orchestra - Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers/Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan - 180 Gram ...
		The four symphonically conceived movements are filled with a sharply jagged rhythm, a well-developed feeling for a contrapuntally ramified skeletal framework, and a masterly use of all the possibilities offered by a large orchestra.
		Colin McPhee’s Tabuh Tabuhan is rich in exotic harmonies.
		By this means, McPhee achieves an explosive mixture of percussive South Sea magic and occidental polyphony, which is rarely to be encountered elsewhere.
	store.acousticsounds.com /browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=14757 (346 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Bali: Roots of Gamlan [Import] [Compilation] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		On The Roots of Gamelan, we're given a real treat: the earliest commercially available recordings of gamelan music (dating from 1928), along with the 1941 transcriptions that composers Colin McPhee and Benjamin Britten made in their attempt to recreate gamelan sounds with Western instrumentation (mainly, the piano).
		A wide variety of styles is played (from the lyrical and comedic Janger to the wildly furious Kebyar compositions) by some of the finest gamelan musicians alive in the era of recorded music.
		The record series from which these recordings came failed miserably, but the performances themselves are quite well-done, and among other things provided inspiration for composer Colin McPhee (whose work is presented at the end of the album).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I7LO (614 words)

	Buy.com - A House in Bali : Colin McPhee : ISBN 9625936297
		Writer Colin McPhee lived for the day when he could travel and study the beautiful island, its people, culture, and music.
		His classic text written in the 1940s remains the only literary narrative of the island by a classically trained musician, and this unique perspective allowed him to immerse himself in the people, and music of his beloved Bali.
		McPhee's work is a landmark look at Bali's distinctive gamelan tradition, now available again more than 50 years after it was written.
	www.buy.com /prod/A_House_in_Bali/q/loc/106/30580609.html (341 words)

	Nanny McPhee (2006) - Colin Firth , Emma Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The children, led by the oldest boy Simon (Sangster), have managed to drive away 17 previous nannies and are certain that they will have no trouble with this one.
		Brown's sudden and seemingly inexplicable attempts to find a new wife; an announcement by the domineering Aunt Adelaide (Lansbury) that she intends to take one of the children away; and the sad and secret longings of their scullery maid, Evangeline (Macdonald).
		As the children's behavior begins to change, Nanny McPhee's arresting face and frame appear to change as well, creating even more questions about this mysterious stranger whom the children and their father have come to love.
	www.countingdown.com /movies/3343522 (212 words)

	Encyclopedia: Colin McPhee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Colin-McPhee (971 words)

	Colin McPhee - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Find more recordings for Colin McPhee at Amazon.com
		Robert Aitken, Harry Freedman, Alexina Louie, Colin McPhee
		Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (Music in American Life)
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=mcphee (475 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Leonard Slatkin and the BBC Symphony Orchestra deliver a coolly new-age performance of Colin McPhee's proto-minimalist masterpiece Tabuh-Tabuhan, very similar to Dennis Russell Davies' recording for Argo.
		This contains a huge slice (some 50 minutes) of the ballet, including the exotic "pagoda" music inspired by the composer's trip to Bali, but unaccountably omits some of the best numbers from the usual suite, such as the final pas de deux of Belle Rose and the Prince.
		All the same, like the McPhee it's very well played and finely recorded too, making this enterprising release well worth owning from just about any point of view.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7108 (192 words)

	Villa Ria Sayan ".... the place I was seeking" Colin McPhee, 1944
		the place I was seeking" Colin McPhee, 1944
		From A House In Bali, Colin McPhee, 1944
		From below came the faint roar of the river as it rushed among the rocks and stones."
	www.villariasayan.com (174 words)

	- Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas Suite; McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan @ Soundbug
		To set the music of Colin McPhee, the Canadian expert on Balinese gamelan music in the Thirties, next to The Prince of the Pagodas, the first flowering of Britten's lasting fascination with gamelan music which was written soon after his return from Bali, is a smashing idea.
		This old recording is followed by a modern performance of McPhee's most famous original composition, Tabuh-Tabuhan.
		This fascinating piece, a precursor of American minimalism, sounds a bit like the work of a Balinese Gershwin with a few of Percy Grainger's Warriors thrown in for good measure.
	www.soundbug.com /asin/B0000C83YL (490 words)

	Season 2000-01
		Pollok: McLean, Archie; Giles, Colin; O'Neil, Kevin; Dickson, Alan; Pacitti, Mario; McGregor, Gary; Madden, Gary; Hendry, John; McPhee, Jimmy (McWilliams, Drew 55); Lynch, Chris (Diamond, Neal 55); Johnston, Sammy (Bryers, Joe 28).
		Pollok: Barnes, Derek; Giles, Colin (Newman, Andy 46); McGregor, Gary (Johnston, Sammy 46); Dickson, Alan; Pacitti, Mario; O'Neil, Kevin; McWilliams, Drew; Graham, David; McPhee, Jimmy; Hendry, John; Madden, Gary (Bryers, Joe 60).
		Pollok: Hanley, Danny; Giles, Colin; O'Neil, Kevin; Dickson, Alan; Pacitti, Mario; Graham, David; Diamond, Neal (McWilliams, Mark 79); Johnston, Sammy; McPhee, Jimmy (Bryers, Joe 63); Hendry, John (Newman, Andy 69); Madden, Gary.
	freespace.virgin.net /jamie.wire/archivedreports/200001results.htm (1329 words)

	village voice > dance > American Ballet Theatre by Deborah Jowitt
		Forget feminism and political correctness when watching this ballet; it's a lovely piece of work, with de Mille's tender, wisely theatrical choreography buoyed by Aaron Copland's marvelous score.
		Morris's 2001 Gong, with Isaac Mizrahi's lollipop-bright costumes and Colin McPhee's Balinese-influenced score, offers more than just stunning patterns (for 12 principals plus six women) and arresting, unexpected moments (like the virtuosic Murphy being promenaded in low arabesque by Sasha Radetsky).
		Although this is an ensemble piece, Morris weaves into the fabric a chance for every one of the main dancers to shine.
	www.villagevoice.com /dance/0543,jowitt2,69421,14.html (644 words)

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