biography
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Carpenter, John Alden
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1951)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Park Ridge, Illinois, USA. A student of John Knowles Paine at Harvard and Edward Elgar in England, he pursued a business career while also actively composing. He was noted for basing his music on urban subjects, with reference to jazz and popular culture, as in the ballets Krazy Kat (1922) and Skyscraper (1926). |
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