John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator (1914, rev. 1941)

[@miranda3264]

A radio program brought me to here. It's the first time to know or hear anything about Mr John Alden Carpenter. Will take time to listen to all movements but the third and the fourth have caught my attention already. Many thanks for uploading. 😊❤

[@joshuaharper372]

I wonder why Carpenter is so forgotten today. Thank you for sharing.

[@foveauxbear]

wonderful composer, sparkles with colour

[@johns.4708]

Very interesting to read the original score while listening to his later modifications, additions, and enriched scoring, filling in all the thin textures to make a mature and satisfyingly complete work. For me, Carpenter has a unique voice that makes all his music identifiable within a few minutes. This work makes a nice companion for his more extroverted ballet, Skyscrapers, balancing this charming perambulation with jazzy, mechanistic verve.

[@bartjebartmans]

Do you have any knowledge of his ballets being performed and recorded by Ballet companies? I can't find any on KZbin. Thanks!

[@johns.4708]

@@bartjebartmans Sadly, no. It might well be close to 100 years ago since a staged performance I'd bet. So thanks to you for keeping his music, and the music of so many, many other great composers, alive and presented for enjoyment and study.

[@bartjebartmans]

Carpenter is quite unusual as he seems to have found his inspiration close to home in familiar sounds and settings even newspapers and cartoons included! He dedicated his works to his wife, friends and other family. In that he is not much unlike Josef Suk who wrote for and about his mother, wife, children, garden and countryside. Two composers geographically far removed but in spirit quite close.

[@snarf1504]

Great music. Hadn't heard of this composer before.

[@hectorbarrionuevo6034]

Two aspects of Carpenter's music I admire are his use of orchestral color and the conservative, "populist" musical language. Interesting to read he had an administrative position as (presumably) main job. It seems amazing Borodin, Carpenter, and Atterberg, among others, maintained non-musical careers and yet were able to produce great, substantive concert music !!!

[@Twentythousandlps]

Also an eccentric insurance executive, initials C.I.

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und detaillierte Interpretation dieser einzigartig konstruierten doch fein komponierten Orchestersuite mit farbenreichen doch perfekt vereinigten Tönen aller Instrumente. Der intelligente Dirigent leitet das perfekt trainierte Orchester in verschiedenen Tempi und mit künstlerisch kontrollierter Dynamik. Wahrlich hörenswert!

[@farbodahmadi4530]

du hast gut und frei gesprochen, finde ich persönlich sehr gut 👍🏻

[@bonuebonue]

the shown score is different from waht has been played....why? ir is a different arrangement? a little confusing...

[@bartjebartmans]

I used the score of 1914, but had no access to the revised score of 1941 used in the recording.

[@minacciosa]

@@bartjebartmans The revised score is available only as a rental. Carpenter was an inveterate revisionist of his works and in most cases, he did make them better. The 1st Symphony is actually a radical revision of his true "first" symphony (written decades before) that is titled Sermons in Stone. I have that score. It could be recorded and would make a fascinating comparison with his final thoughts on the work.