John Alden Carpenter : a Chicago composer
"With this biography, Howard Pollack restores to the public eye a prolific and gifted artist whom Walter Damrosch called "the most American of our composers."" "Well respected and widely performed during his lifetime, John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) was one of the first American composers to be influenced by Debussy and Stravinsky and one of the first composers anywhere to incorporate elements of popular song and jazz into concert music. His original yet refined orchestral music was championed by Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, Otto Klemperer, Serge Koussevitzky, and other celebrated conductors, and his sensitive songs were performed by such legendary singers as Alma Gluck and Kirsten Flagstad."
Print Book, English, 2001, ©1995
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University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2001, ©1995
Biography
xvi, 511 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780252070143, 0252070143
46661891
"Previously published as Skyscraper lullaby: the life and music of John Alden Carpenter by the Smithsonian Institution Press"--Title page verso