In the post-Civil War era, the cruel breath of slavery and the aborted plan of Reconstruction still hung over the American South. But in the Joplin home, banjo and fiddle music filled the family’s ...
Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3)—Sedalia, Missouri, will host the International Ragtime Festival next week (May 28-31). The festival celebrates the life of famous Missourian Scott Joplin. Joplin landed in ...
NEW YORK — Wesley Gill stood in the rain holding an umbrella on May 19 as he looked at a small bronze plaque at St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst, Queens. Violets sprouted around it, and its ...
At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...
Max Morath, a famed ragtime musician and guest pianist at the Strater Hotel during the 1960s in Durango, died Monday, June 19, at an assisted living center in Duluth, Minnesota. He was 96. Born Oct. 1 ...
Lincoln Center Theater has announced today that incoming Artistic Director Lear deBessonet’s inaugural season will open with a new production of her acclaimed New York City Center Gala revival of ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Ragtime is back onstage in NYC! The musical opened last night as the 2024 gala ...
Ithaca, N.Y. — Hangar Theatre Company of Ithaca opened a buoyant and sweeping production of “Ragtime, The Musical,” for part of their 50th season, on Friday evening to a savvy, appreciative audience, ...
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