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Elliot Carpenter papers

Title
  1. Elliot Carpenter papers, 1922-1979.
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  1. Finding aid
Author
  1. Carpenter, Elliot (1894-1982)

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Description
  1. 8.7 lin. ft.
Summary
  1. The Elliot Carpenter Papers document his musical career and consists of personal and professional correspondence, handwritten music, programs, lyrics, scripts, and newsclippings.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.
Subject
  1. Wilson, Dooley, 1894-1953
  2. Lyrics
  3. Boyd, Bill
  4. May, Ada, 1901?-1978
  5. Scrapbooks
  6. Helen Armstead-Johnson Collection
  7. African American musicians
  8. African American entertainers
  9. Briggs, Everett Francis, 1908-
  10. Travnikoff, Basil
  11. Musical scores
  12. Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971
  13. African Americans > Music
  14. Scripts
  15. Carpenter, Elliot, 1894-1982
  16. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
  17. African Americans in the performing arts
  18. African American composers
  19. Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983
Genre/Form
  1. Musical scores.
  2. Scripts.
  3. Scrapbooks.
  4. Lyrics.
Call number
  1. Sc MG 599
Note
  1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
Source (note)
  1. Helen Armstead-Johnson
Biography (note)
  1. 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)
  1. 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)
  1. Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
Processing action (note)
  1. Processed
  2. Cataloged
Author
  1. Carpenter, Elliot (1894-1982)
Title
  1. Elliot Carpenter papers, 1922-1979.
Biography
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  1. 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
  1. Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
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Research call number
  1. Sc MG 599
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