Ernest Trow Carter
Ernest Trow Carter (September 3, 1866 – June 22, 1953) was an organist and composer who won the Bispham Award.[1]
Biography[]
He was born on September 3, 1866 in Orange, New Jersey to Aaron Carter and Sarah Swift Trow. At age seven, in 1873 he started what would become eight years of study of piano with Mary Bradshaw as his teacher. At age thirteen, in 1879, he organized an amateur orchestra, studied the cornet, was assistant conductor of the school orchestra; and at sixteen he was playing cornet in a professional orchestra.[2][3]
He graduated from Princeton University, cum laude, in 1888.[1][3] He composed Princeton's and arranged music for the Princeton Glee Club. He studied piano with William Mason and singing with . He studied the French Horn with of the New York Symphony Orchestra.[2] He then received a Master's Degree from Columbia University.[1][3]
He went to California in 1892 as musical director for the Thacher School.[1] In 1894, he went to Berlin to study composition with and organ with .[2][3]
He returned to New York around 1898. There he studied organ with . From 1899 to 1901 he was lecturer on music and was the choirmaster at Princeton University. For one year, around 1903, he sang in the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera Company.[2][3]
He died on June 22, 1953 after a long illness at in Stamford, Connecticut.[1][3] He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.[4]
Operas[]
- The White Bird
- The Blonde Donna
Family[]
Carter was a maternal grandson of the New York City publisher, John Fowler Trow (1810–1886).
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Ernest T. Carter Dead, Composer, was 86". The New York Times. June 22, 1953.
Former Organist at Princeton Who Won Bispham Award for U. S. Opera Is Dead.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Hipsher, Edward Ellsworth. American Opera and Its Composers. ISBN 0-306-77516-6. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Ernest Trow Carter Papers". Yale University. hdl:10079/fa/music.mss.0040. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ Ernest Trow Carter at Find a Grave
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