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Colin McPhee

Colin McPhee has been played on NTS in shows including Damon Eliza Palermo Presents: Inner Realm, featured first on 13 October 2017. Songs played include Discourse For Orchestra and I. Pemungkah.

Colin McPhee (March 15, 1900, in Montreal – January 7, 1964, in Los Angeles) was a Canadian composer and musicologist. He is primarily known for being the first Western composer to make an ethnomusicological study of Bali, and for the quality of that work. He also composed music influenced by that of Bali and Java decades before such world music–based compositions became widespread.

Chronology McPhee studied with the avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse before marrying Jane Belo,…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Discourse For Orchestra
The Louisville Orchestra, Sir Arthur Bliss, Colin McPhee
First Edition Records1975
Discourse For Orchestra
The Louisville Orchestra, Sir Arthur Bliss, Colin McPheeFirst Edition Records1975
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I. Pemungkah
Colin McPhee
UMMUS1992
I. Pemungkah
Colin McPheeUMMUS1992
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