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'''Born:''' 28 February 1876 | '''Born:''' 28 February 1876 | ||
'''Died:''' 26 April 1951 | '''Died:''' 26 April 1951, Chicago | ||
'''Biography''' | '''Biography''' | ||
Born in Park Ridge, Illinois | Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard, 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 Sir Edward 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. | ||
He composed several ballets, including one based on the Krazy Kat comics, and one, his best-known, possibly, entitled Skyscrapers (1926), inspired by his city of residence. One of his most famous works was 1914's impressionistic orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator. In 1932 he completed The Song of Faith for the George Washington bicentennial. Another ballet he was best known for was his Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1916). | |||
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==List of choral works== | ==List of choral works== | ||
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*'''''Song cycle "Gitanjali"''''' (published 1914, text by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]) | |||
*# {{NoCo|When I bring to you colour'd toys}} ( [{{website|artsong}}2007/carpenter-when-i-bring-to-you-colourd-toys/ {{net}}] ) | |||
*# {{NoCo|On the day when death will knock at thy door}} ( [{{website|artsong}}2007/carpenter-on-the-day-when-death-will-knock-at-thy-door/ {{net}}] ) | |||
*# {{NoCo|The Sleep that flits on Baby's Eyes}} ( [{{website|artsong}}2007/carpenter-the-sleep-that-flits-on-babys-eyes/ {{net}}] ) | |||
*# {{NoCo|I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn|I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn}} ( [{{website|artsong}}2007/carpenter-i-am-like-a-remnant-of-a-cloud-of-autumn/ {{net}}] ) | |||
*# {{NoCo|On the Seashore of Endless Worlds}} ( [{{website|artsong}}2007/carpenter-on-the-seashore-of-endless-worlds/ {{net}}] ) | |||
*# {{NoCo|Light, My Light}} ( [{{website|artsong}}2007/carpenter-light-my-light/ {{net}}] ) | |||
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Life
Born: 28 February 1876
Died: 26 April 1951, Chicago
Biography
Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard, 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 Sir Edward 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.
He composed several ballets, including one based on the Krazy Kat comics, and one, his best-known, possibly, entitled Skyscrapers (1926), inspired by his city of residence. One of his most famous works was 1914's impressionistic orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator. In 1932 he completed The Song of Faith for the George Washington bicentennial. Another ballet he was best known for was his Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1916).
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