Editing Colin McPhee (section)

==Career==
McPhee joined the circle of experimental composers known as the "ultra-modernists" and was among those—along with the group's leader, [[Henry Cowell]], [[John J. Becker]], and Cowell protégé [[Lou Harrison]]—particularly interested in what would later become known as "world music".  McPhee and his wife moved to Bali together for Belo's anthropological work. Once there McPhee studied, filmed<ref>[http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2017/04/06/balis-biggest-street-party.html "Bali's biggest street party"]. Wayan Juniarta, ''The Jakarta Post'', Denpasar | April 6, 2017</ref> and wrote extensively about the culture and music of the [[gamelan]]s, and in 1936 wrote an original musical score, ''Tabuh Tabuhan'', in the Balinese style.

McPhee, who was gay,<ref name="oja">{{citation |title=Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds |first=Carol J. |last=Oja |year=2004 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=0-252-07180-8}}</ref> divorced Belo in 1939.  In the early 1940s he lived in a large brownstone in Brooklyn, which he shared with [[W. H. Auden]] and [[Benjamin Britten]], among others.

In 1942, he arranged Britten's ''[[Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge]]'', a work for string orchestra, for two pianos, to be used for [[Lew Christensen]]'s ballet ''Jinx''.<ref name="KennedyBourne2004">{{cite book|author1=Michael Kennedy|author2=Joyce Bourne|title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0b0_CQATAIC&pg=PA759|date=April 22, 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-860884-4|page=759}}</ref> McPhee was responsible for introducing Britten to the Balinese music that influenced such works by the British composer as ''The Prince of the Pagodas'', ''[[Curlew River]]'', and ''[[Death in Venice (opera)|Death in Venice]]''.<ref name="brett">{{citation |first=Philip |last=Brett |chapter=Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas |title=Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology |editor-first=Philip |editor-last=Brett |editor2-first=Elizabeth |editor2-last=Wood |editor3-first=Gary C. |editor3-last=Thomas |place=London |publisher=Routledge |year=1994 |pages=235–256}}</ref>

In 1947, McPhee published a book ''A House in Bali'', about Balinese culture and music during the 1930s.<ref name=george>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905065330/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/intelligent-travel/2016/02/24/great-travel-reads-bali-best-travel-books-about-bali/ "The Best Travel Books About Bali"]. ''National Geographic'', February 24, 2016, By Don George</ref> Later in the decade, McPhee fell into an alcohol-fueled depression, but began to write music again during the 1950s. He became professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA in 1958 and was also a respected jazz [[music criticism|critic]]. He died in Los Angeles.

In the 1990s, [[Alex Pauk]]'s [[Esprit Orchestra]] recorded and released renditions of several never previously recorded compositions by McPhee.<ref>Arthur Kaptainis, "Esprit release yields two Juno nominees". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', February 24, 1996.</ref> This resulted in McPhee receiving posthumous [[Juno Award]] nominations for [[Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year|Best Classical Composition]] for "Symphony No. 2" at the [[Juno Awards of 1998]]<ref>"Nominations announced for Juno Awards". ''[[The Daily Gleaner]]'', February 12, 1998.</ref> and "Concerto for Wind Orchestra" at the [[Juno Awards of 1999]].<ref>[[Leah McLaren]], "Dion leads Juno nominees; Ladies and Twain also up for awards". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', January 28, 1999.</ref> He won the award in 1999.<ref>"Complete list of Juno Award winners". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 9, 1999.</ref>

American composer [[Evan Ziporyn]] wrote an opera about McPhee's life, titled ''A House in Bali''. The opera premiered at Puri Saraswati in [[Ubud]], Bali, on June 26 and 27, 2009.

In 2017, an album ''Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music'', performed Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly and partly based on McPhee's transcriptions, was released on the Nonesuch/Warners label.<ref>[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/balinese-ceremonial-music-by-thomas-bartlett-nico-muhly-slow-burning-beauty-1.3498829 "'Balinese Ceremonial Music' by Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly: Slow-burning beauty"]. ''The Irish Times'', Cormac Larkin, May 18, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/37170/album-thomas-bartlett-nico-muhly-peter-pears-balinese-ceremonial-music " Album | Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly – Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music"]. ''For Folks Sake'', by Lorenzo Righetto • June 5, 2018</ref>