John Alden Carpenter : a Chicago composer /

John Alden Carpenter : a Chicago composer /

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Author / Creator:	Pollack, Howard.
Uniform title:	Skyscraper lullaby
Edition:	1st Illinois pbk.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001, ©1995.
Description:	xvi, 511 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Music in American life Music in American life.
Subject:	Carpenter, John Alden, -- 1876-1951. Carpenter, John Alden, -- 1876-1951. Composers -- United States -- Biography. Composers. United States. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11964675

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ISBN:	0252070143 9780252070143
Notes:	"Previously published as Skyscraper lullaby: the life and music of John Alden Carpenter by the Smithsonian Institution Press"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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." "Pollack skillfully balances Carpenter's personal and musical lives, covering his interactions with musicians of every stripe, his high profile in the Chicago Renaissance cultural scene, and his two marriages (first to the designer and art collector Rue Winterbotham and then, following a protracted affair, to the Chicago socialite Ellen Borden)."--Jacket.

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Call Number:	ML410.C3278 P6 2001
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