Elliot Carpenter papers
- Title
- Elliot Carpenter papers, 1922-1979.
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- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 16 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 16 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 15 | FormatMixed material | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 15 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 14 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 14 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 13 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 13 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 12 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 12 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 6 | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 6 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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Details
- Description
- 8.7 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Elliot Carpenter Papers document his musical career and consists of personal and professional correspondence, handwritten music, programs, lyrics, scripts, and newsclippings.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.
- Subject
- Wilson, Dooley, 1894-1953
- Lyrics
- Boyd, Bill
- May, Ada, 1901?-1978
- Scrapbooks
- Helen Armstead-Johnson Collection
- African American musicians
- African American entertainers
- Briggs, Everett Francis, 1908-
- Travnikoff, Basil
- Musical scores
- Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971
- African Americans > Music
- Scripts
- Carpenter, Elliot, 1894-1982
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African American composers
- Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983
- Genre/Form
- Musical scores.
- Scripts.
- Scrapbooks.
- Lyrics.
- Call number
- Sc MG 599
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson
- Biography (note)
- Elliot James Carpenter was a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and song stylist with a career that spanned much of the twentieth century. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at the Temple School of Music in that city. In the 1920's he furthered his studies in France, where he also performed with the James Reese Europe Orchestra. A band he formed, known as the Red Devils, toured Europe under the management of the Clef Club Singers and Players.
- Provenance (note)
- The collection was donated to Helen Armstead-Johnson by Elliot Carpenter, and subsequently donated by her, along with other theater related collections, to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking entry (note)
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Processing action (note)
- Processed
- Cataloged
- Author
- Carpenter, Elliot (1894-1982)
- Title
- Elliot Carpenter papers, 1922-1979.
- Biography
- Elliot James Carpenter was a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and song stylist with a career that spanned much of the twentieth century. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at the Temple School of Music in that city. In the 1920's he furthered his studies in France, where he also performed with the James Reese Europe Orchestra. A band he formed, known as the Red Devils, toured Europe under the management of the Clef Club Singers and Players.
- Carpenter's primary musical style was popular, but he also wrote and performed swing music. Although he wrote a substantial amount of original music, only a modest number of pieces were published. He was a prodigious arranger of music authored by both Black and white composers, and also wrote lyrics.
- Among Carpenter's accomplishments are his 1937 collaboration with Clarence Muse for the film "Spirit of Youth," his arrangement of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "The Mikado" into a swing piece called "Swing Mikado," 1939, and his performance of the sound track for "As Time Goes By" in the film "Casablanca" and as the playing hands of Sam, the character played by Dooley Wilson, 1942.
- A collaboration with Langston Hughes produced a song entitled "America's Young Black Joe," which was published. Some of the many collaborators with whom Carpenter worked are Karen Bank, Bill Boyd, Everett F. Briggs, Dove See, Frank Lowry, Flournoy Miller, and Kahl Ra-Faun.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to Helen Armstead-Johnson by Elliot Carpenter, and subsequently donated by her, along with other theater related collections, to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking entry
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Connect to:
- Research call number
- Sc MG 599