Composer Colin McPhee wasn't the first Westerner to have his life changed by Asian music. Claude Debussy, too, had heard a Javanese gamelan at the 1889 Paris World Exhibition and had tried to imitate its harmonies. But McPhee went further much further - all the way to Bali. "American Mavericks" is a thirteen episode series on American composers who broke with European tradition to innovate a pure sound. The series won a Peabody Award in 2003.