id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_li7f6zj7bfdnpkeofl3b3z7ufe Carolyn Watts America in the Transatlantic Imagination: The Ballets Russes and John Alden Carpenter's Skyscrapers 2015 131 .pdf application/pdf 40881 2867 67 American" ballet score from Chicago composer John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951), which premiered by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City as Skyscrapers: A Ballet of composers who wrote music for the Ballets Russes also remember Diaghilev and their activities In a footnote in Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Garafola briefly uses Carpenter's commission source; however my work on Skyscrapers and Carpenter's associations with the Ballets Russes Chapter 2 ("Diaghilev's American 'Episode:' John Alden Carpenter and Skyscrapers") Chapter 2 ("Diaghilev's American 'Episode:' John Alden Carpenter and Skyscrapers") In Chapter 3 ("America at Work and Play: Skyscrapers and Jazz") I discuss the ballet Lynn Garafola, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 213. Lynn Garafola, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 213. John Alden Carpenter, Skyscrapers: A Ballet of Modern American Life (New York: G. incorporating the skyscraper, jazz/ragtime, spirituals and American popular music in his ballet, ./cache/work_li7f6zj7bfdnpkeofl3b3z7ufe.pdf ./txt/work_li7f6zj7bfdnpkeofl3b3z7ufe.txt