Carpenter, John Alden. (1876-1951)

Rare Autograph Musical Quotation

On colored cardstock, approximately 5.5" x 2.5" in size, the interesting American composer has penned the opening bars from his song "When I Bring to You Colored Toys," dated 1948. In fine condition and mounted on larger card with typewritten biographical information.

At Harvard, Carpenter studied with John Knowles Paine and later with Elgar in London and with Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago. Many of his works are jazz-inspired and are meant to encompass a particularly American spirit. He wrote several ballets, including one based on the Krazy Kat comics which had a major success with its Town Hall premiere in NYC. Diaghilev greatly admired the work and asked Carpenter to write the ballet "Skyscrapers" (1926). Among his most famous works is his impressionistic orchestal suite "Adventures in a Perambulator" (1914), and his "Song of Faith," completed in 1932 for the George Washington bicentennial. (1270)
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