Colin McPhee 1900-1964

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Colin McPhee 1900-1964  Born Montreal, Canada  died Los Angeles, USA

Orchestral 

Piano Concerto No.1 'La Mort d'Arthur  1920
Piano Concerto No.2  1923
Sumphony No.1  1930
'Tabuh-Tabuhan' for two pianos and orchestra  1936
Four Iroquois Dances  1944
Transitions for orchestra  1954
Symphony No.2 'Pastorale'  1957
Nocturne for chamber orchestra  1958
Concerto for Wind 1960
Symphony No.3  for chamber orchestra  1960

Dramatic

For Theatre
Emperor Jones  1940
Battle of Angels  1940

For Radio
Broken Arrow  1945

Film Scores
Mechanical Principles  1931
H2O  1931
Air Skills  1957
Blue Vanguard  1957
In Our Hands  1957

Choral

Sea Shanty Suite  1929
From the Revelation of St.John the Divine  1936

Chamber

Four piano sketches  Op.1  1916
Three moods for piano  1924
Pastorale and Rondino for 2 flutes, clarinet, trumpet and piano  1925
Scarabande for piano  1925
Invention for piano 1926
Concerto for piano and eight winds  1928
Kinesis for piano  1930

He also wrote numerous transcriptions of Balinese Ceremonial music and during the 1930's was heavily influenced by Gamelan music.

He destroyed a considerable amount of his own music.