tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-90293304533317983992007-12-08T07:40:00.000Z2007-12-08T07:40:00.000ZThanks for that John, although Colin McPhee didn't...Thanks for that John, although Colin McPhee didn't seem to think Henry Eichheim had been there and done exactly that.<BR/><BR/>Carol J. Oja's book on McPhee quotes a letter by him to Henry Cowell in spring 1935 in which McPhee says he expected <I>"to have a couple of orchestral work(s) finished by fall - a prelude and toccata (sic), and a 'fantasia' for piano and orchestra on Balinese melodies and rhythms - authentic stuff and not dished-up impressionism à la Eichheim." (Henry Eichheim's orchestral works Java and Bali had been written in 1929 and 1933 respectively).</I>Pliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com