A pulsating piano solo by a black composer published 125 years ago this fall became an unexpected bestseller, drew droves of young people to the piano, and became an enduring classic of American music ...
The history of music is littered with tortured artists, and one of the least-explored stories is that of ragtime innovator Scott Joplin. The turn-of-the-century Texarkana composer’s life is creatively ...
Scott Joplin is one of the legends of the piano canon – every aspiring pianist under the sun has banged away at ‘The Entertainer’. But how much do you know about the King of Ragtime? You only need to ...
During Scott Joplin’s (1868-1917) brief career he was considered the “King of Ragtime Writers”. One of his first – and most popular pieces, the “Maple Leaf Rag,” became the genre’s first influential ...
When Richard Dowling was 9, the movie “The Sting” came out, with the famous Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack that included six ragtime songs composed by Scott Joplin. “I literally fell in love with ‘The ...
Scott Joplin is one of the legends of the piano canon – every aspiring pianist under the sun has banged away at ‘The Entertainer’. But how much do you know about the King of Ragtime? You only need to ...
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