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 ...
Scott Joplin was fond of naming pieces of music after various types of leaves. The maple, palm, fig and sycamore leaves all figure in Joplin's music — and so does the rose leaf. William Albright plays ...
When I first heard Scott Joplin’s “Bethena,” I was a college freshman and my friend Robert was playing it on the piano in a common room. The college’s century-old Steinway was appallingly out of tune, ...
ST. LOUIS — During Black History Month, 5 on Your Side is celebrating the history that was made in St. Louis, and highlighting the next generation of change-makers. One of the most influential ...
Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lara Downes’s latest album, “Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered,” is inspired by the fact that Joplin’s achievement remains fuzzy to many. By Seth ...
Scott Joplin was raised in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Texas. During the late 1880s, he traveled the American South as a musician and in 1893 he went to Chicago for the World's ...
Maple leaves and palms, chrysanthemums and gladiolas — all these botanicals found their way into the piano rags by Scott Joplin. The American composer, organist and pianist William Albright recorded ...
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