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John Alden Carpenter (February 28, 1876 - April 26, 1951) was a U.S. composer. Natural within Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in the musical menage. He was educated at Harvard, where he exposed under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club, and wrote music for the Hasty-Pudding Club. Showing dandy promise as a composer, he journeyed to London to study under Elgar, later giving to the United States to learn under Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago. It wwhen there he earned the comfortable dwelling as vice-president of the personal business, the mill supply company. Carpenter composed numerous works intended to encompass a spirit of United states, including many jazz inspired works. He compsed many ballets, including a single according to a Krazy Kat comics, and of these entitled Skyscrapers, inspired by his city of home. One of his best known works was 1914's impressionistic orchestral suite Adventures around the Baby buggy. Inside 1932 he completed The Song of Faith for the George Washington bicentennial. He died inside Chicago within 1951.
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Carpenter, John Alden Brief musical biography showing his work in songs, chamber music, and orchestral pieces from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. John Alden Carpenter Discussion of his early Twentieth Century modernity coupled with his highly accessible works. From the PBS project I Hear America Singing. John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) Miscellaneous songs and cycles listed with REC Music Foundation include many English and French texts. John Alden Carpenter's Skyscrapers Analysis of the piece noting how it fit the America of its time from program notes by Judith Tick for the American Symphony Orchestra. John Alden Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator Examination of the symphony both musically and according to his own words about each of the movements told in the voice of a baby within its carriage. |
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