John Alden Carpenter: Complete Ballets

Celebrating its milestone 100th album, the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) led by conductor Gil Rose releases John Alden Carpenter: Complete Ballets (#1100). For the first time, all three of Carpenter’s seminal ballet scores—Krazy Kat, The Birthday of The Infanta, and Skyscrapers—are presented in their complete and original form. As one of the first American composers to see the importance of ragtime and, later, jazz, and to use their rhythms in his compositions, Carpenter wrote music that reflected the culture of American milieu of his times, and the sounds of modern American life, as displayed on this sweeping disc.

CDs will ship 7/30/24.