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Carpenter, John Alden  - http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=1616  Brief musical biography showing his work in songs, chamber music, and orchestral pieces from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.  John Alden Carpenter  - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/composer/carpenter.html  Discussion of his early Twentieth Century modernity coupled with his highly accessible works. From the PBS project I Hear America Singing.  John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)  - http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/c/carpenter.html  Miscellaneous songs and cycles listed with REC Music Foundation include many English and French texts.  John Alden Carpenter's Skyscrapers  - http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/2002_03season/2002_11_17/carpenter.cfm  Analysis of the piece noting how it fit the America of its time from program notes by Judith Tick for the American Symphony Orchestra.  John Alden Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator  - http://www.petticoated.com/perambulator.htm  Examination of the symphony both musically and according to his own words about each of the movements told in the voice of a baby within its carriage.