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Colin McPhee's Musical Life in Bali
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March 21, 2011 |
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Then one evening I pulled Colin McPhee's novel A House in Bali from the shelf. His name was familiar, I knew he was a composer, but that was the limit of my knowledge. I learned in the first chapter that McPhee heard some gramophone recordings of Balinese gamelan music in 1930, and was completely smitten. On his way to the exotic island, leaning over the rail at the front of the ship, McPhee watched for the telltale flickering lights on the horizon and thought...
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