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Carpenter, John Alden
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Brief musical biography showing his work in songs, chamber music, and orchestral pieces from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=1616
Discussion of his early Twentieth Century modernity coupled with his highly accessible works. From the PBS project I Hear America Singing.
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Carpenter was considered one of the foremost modern composers of the 1920's and 30's. Born into an affluent Chicago shipping family, Carpenter traced his ancestry back to the Pilgrims. His musical studies began with his mother, a passionate amateur singer,...Miscellaneous songs and cycles listed with REC Music Foundation include many English and French texts.
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John Alden Carpenter (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Classical Vocal Music) Translators and other volunteers Contact Information Copyright Statement Partial Bibliography Emily's Homepage Emily's Amazon wishlist Please visit Artsconverge, a Lieder-related web-project on which I once did some work. Composer: John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning not...Analysis of the piece noting how it fit the America of its time from program notes by Judith Tick for the American Symphony Orchestra.
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John Alden Carpenter's Skyscrapers American classical composers acknowledged the irresistible appeal of popular culture as a way to be American in the concert hall. Among those pioneering this trend was the Chicago-based John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951 After the successful jazz pantomime, Krazy Kat (1921--based...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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Adventures in a Perambulator Readers who are interested in baby treatment may be interested to know that a symphony has been composed about a baby's outing with his nurse in a pram. Saffy has prepared an introduction, and these are followed by the composer's...