John Alden Carpenter
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John Alden Carpenter (February 28, 1876 – April 26, 1951) was an American composer.
Biography [edit]
Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club and wrote music for the Hasty-Pudding Club. Showing great promise as a composer, he journeyed to London to study under Elgar, later returning to the United States to study under Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago. It was there he earned a comfortable living as vice-president of the family business, a mill supply company. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity.
Carpenter composed many works meant to encompass the spirit of America, including the patriotic The Home Road and several jazz-inspired works. He composed several ballets, including one based on the Krazy Kat comics, and one in 1926, possibly his best-known, Skyscrapers, set in New York (it was premiered at the Metropolitan Opera), but equally inspired by his native Chicago. One of his most famous works was 1914's impressionistic orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator.[1] In 1932 he completed The Song of Faith for the George Washington bicentennial. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933.[2]
He died in Chicago in 1951.
References [edit]
- ^ The History of American Classical Music (by John Warthen Struble, 1995), p. 90.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter C". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
External links [edit]
- Free scores by John Alden Carpenter at the International Music Score Library Project
- Free scores by John Alden Carpenter in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- John Alden Carpenter letters to Remsen Bird at the Newberry Library
- John Alden Carpenter Papers at the Newberry Library
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