The introduction of ragtime into America's musical consciousness will forever have "Alexander's Ragtime Band" as its soundtrack.
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MORRISTOWN Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, presents "Scot Joplin and the Kings of Ragtime.." April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
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Back in the early 20th century, ragtime lived and died with Scott Joplin, the King of the Ragtime Writers who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to American music.
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Joplin was forgotten, and ragtime became an obscurity of Americana.
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There are hints of ragtime and bursts of popular dance.
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His AOL-based site, in its own way, helped raise Roache's profile—as well as that of ragtime music, which had fallen into obscurity as ragtime gave way to jazz, blues, country, and eventually rock.
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She's seen "Hello, Dolly" 12 times, "Hadestown" 14 and "Ragtime" 22.
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The Evelyn is cool like candlelit dinners and ragtime are cool.
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But he played a great ragtime piano, and he could sing.
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WATERBURY "Ragtime," musical by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Jan.
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Throughout their performance, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra channels the work's bluesy effervescence.
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Except the ragtime clue, which gave us some new insight into Lindsay's childhood.
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Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon and the "Ragtime Gals" cover "SexyBack" – barbershop-quartet style!
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"Make Them Hear You," from Ragtime, "We Shall Overcome," and the national anthem.
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A. I started off with one of my great loves, which is ragtime.
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He was, after all, known for "Maple Leaf Rag," the first ragtime hit.
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It played marches, concert pieces, tangos and waltzes, with a sprinkling of ragtime.
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Popular influences come to the fore: vaudeville tunes, circus marches, cabaret, Iberian dances, ragtime.
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He talked about a piece he'd seen that called "Ragtime" the great American novel.
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Ragtime — so called because of its syncopated, ragged rhythm — is a predecessor to jazz.
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Although historians often associate Europe with ragtime and jazz, his focus was on neither.
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She found her influences everywhere, in ragtime and raga, in calypso and rock 'n' roll.
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He was a ragtime pianist and ukulele player and wrote plays for children and adults.
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There are, of course, plenty of genre pastiches in it: soft-shoe, jazz, ragtime, hoedowns.
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Games were frequently paired with ragtime dances to make for a full evening of entertainment.
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Rather, it looks like a show of Germany's future might, even with the ragtime musical accompaniment.
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Ragtime and stride are part of the same African-diaspora tree, though on a different branch.
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"The Raggedy Dances" suggests that Mozart was a proto-ragtime composer, at least in this score.
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The foot-tapping swing of ragtime was soon flowing from the chapel to the cemetery outside.
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The pianist Mr. Hyman, 90, is perhaps jazz's foremost practitioner of classic ragtime and stride technique.
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We now know the answer to that question, thanks to Jimmy Fallon's barbershop quartet, the Ragtime Gals.
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You sing it in the ragtime blues, work songs, Georgia sea shanties, Appalachian ballads, and cowboy songs.
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Those performances, like seeing Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell do Ragtime, are cemented in my mind.
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It doesn't help that Blitzstein's score dabbles in ragtime, spirituals and parlor music alongside more conventional styles.
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We're talking about him finally learning how to play my favorite ragtime song, "The Entertainer," on the piano.
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They decided to perform a ragtime rendition of the song on Wednesday night's show, but that's not all.
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The first time I got drunk at Elliott Street Pub, a ragtime band was playing in the street.
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Compassion!" and "Master Class," and for the books of the musicals "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Ragtime.
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To understand his relationship to his father, Jim McCartney, requires a deeper dig into old ragtime and brass bands.
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Hindemith's "Ragtime (Well-Tempered)," from 1921, which opened the concert, whips one of Bach's fugues into a tart carnival.
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Mr. Schwartz recommended them to Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty ("Ragtime"), who admitted them to a Dramatists Guild fellowship.
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After their last duet, "Wheels of a Dream" from the musical "Ragtime," he also had a surprise for her.
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" They discovered they liked much of the same music, from Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile to "Ragtime" and "Rent.
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Music played; ragtime pieces mainly, that sped up and slowed down, which somehow affected the sensitivity of the controllers.
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Compassion!" and 85033 for "Master Class," as well as his scripts for "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Ragtime.
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Then he played a wildly imaginative grouping of 20th-century pieces inspired by, satirizing or paying homage to ragtime.
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Europe's reputation as a purveyor of ragtime and "proto jazz" is based on recordings made in 1913 and 1914.
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John Edward Roache, who worked as a pharmacist in his day job, was a big fan of ragtime music, with five decades of experience playing the piano in some way, shape, or form, and his love of ragtime followed him into the world of modern technology as he became interested in computers.
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As a kid I had this dream of playing my favorite ragtime song, "The Entertainer" from Marvin Hamlisch on piano.
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For Folds, it was watching fellow second grader (and future wife) Anna Goldman wailing on a ragtime number at school.
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She then went on to star in Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, earning two more Tony nominations in the process.
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Dozens of tunings appeared in isolated local styles as Pacific islands music absorbed elements of ragtime, country, jazz and rock.
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Scott Joplin, known as the King of Ragtime Writers, spent the final decade of his life in New York City.
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On a whim, though, he made a video of himself playing a medley of pop songs done in a ragtime style.
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It includes the home of the ragtime composer Scott Joplin and the national headquarters for the March on Washington in 1965.
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" The left side reproduces Irving Berlin's actual words denying rumors that he ripped off Joplin for his song "Alexander's Ragtime Band.
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But Jimmy Fallon took the song even further back in time with his barbershop quartet, The Ragtime Gals, on The Tonight Show.
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You'll then make your way through different styles of music including ballad, blues, jazz, and ragtime, so you get exposed to everything.
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Replete with the embroidery of epithets and metaphors, their accounts suggest the E.L. Doctorow of "Ragtime" channeling the incantatory verse of Homer.
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Mr. Batiste paired ragtime tunes with his own "Golden Crown," rooted in the Mardi Gras Indian music of his hometown, New Orleans.
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In those days, he was mostly known for playing ragtime piano in a bar called the Wharf, down by the Kennebec River.
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" Another commenter struck a similar chord: "Honestly wouldn't be surprised in Jeff Sessions called for a crackdown on ragtime music for promoting fornication.
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The compositional language mostly uses Schonberg's 12-tone technique, though Berg folds in evocations of cabaret, ragtime and jazz to subtle dramatic effect.
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Lane was followed in later years by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, ragtime, the blues, jazz from New Orleans, swing, boogie-woogie and bebop.
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"Ragtime music is pretty good because a piano is basically a piano, and most synthesizers are good at that," Roache told the newspaper.
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McNally won two Tony Awards for writing the books for the musicals "Ragtime" in 1998 and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1993.
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What do ragtime and stride piano, two early forms of jazz, have to do with the Cuban rhythm also known as the tango?
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He's not after swingy, happy syncopation, the kind you find in ragtime, which lightens a simple tune and makes it feel less foursquare.
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Jazz was starting to supplant ragtime in popularity by 1917, and Joplin had become ravaged by syphilis he contracted as a young man.
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"Cold" dissects the final hours of Robert Allen Cole, a turn-of-the-century vaudevillian, ragtime composer and tragic pioneer of African-American theater.
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But he died a decade later at the age of 49, destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity.
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For "Intimate Apparel" (which she and the composer Ricky Ian Gordon are turning into an opera), the playlist included ragtime artists like Scott Joplin.
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It's a far more ingratiating piece than the Variations, but its abstract and unsentimental treatment of jazz and ragtime influences demands an attentive audience.
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" Few who heard Europe's music were acquainted with the dance music then brewing in New Orleans, which some regarded as "ragtime played by ear.
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He joined the rookies Steve Schindler and Rob Lytle in a training-camp rookie "talent show," in which he banged out ragtime on a piano.
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The 1998 Broadway musical "Ragtime" is back for its second London revival in four years, this time at the Charing Cross Theater through Nov. 26.
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Among Berlin's early, career-making smashes were "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1013) and "Play a Simple Melody" (1914), a pioneering use of counterpoint in popular music.
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Jazz was the new counterculture dance music replacing ragtime — but more dangerous, disorderly and discordant, consisting of random, wrong-sounding musical obstreperousness and percussive turmoil.
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All of the film's songs were scored and written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the Broadway legends behind Once on This Island, Ragtime, and Seussical.
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At first, he seizes the opportunity to show off his superior intelligence, but he's up against Gretchen's enthusiasm, Edgar's training and Lindsay's obscure knowledge of ragtime.
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All of the film's songs were scored and written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the Broadway legends behind Once on This Island , Ragtime, and Seussical .
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Turning the liturgy into a ragtime piece, Mr Lehrer tells Catholics they can "do whatever steps you want if you have cleared them with the Pontiff".
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In 1975, Houston became the first professional opera company to stage a full production of Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha," just as the ragtime revival was taking off.
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Kent Thompson, the director, cast performers with Broadway heft, starting with Robert Petkoff ("Ragtime") as Sweeney and Linda Mugleston ("On the Twentieth Century") as Mrs. Lovett.
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Ragtime was being born in these smoky saloons across the Mississippi Valley, but the genre did not thrive until Joplin composed "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899.
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It was a time when jazz and ragtime flew off the keys, and Steinway was producing more than 6,000 pianos a year, triple what it makes today.
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Time-travel through Bach, Schubert, ragtime, klezmer and imagined worlds in works by Derek Bermel, William Albright and the Pulitzer Prize-winners John Harbison and Steven Stucky.
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As Mr. De Felitta told the story, he and his wife were relaxing on the terrace of their Los Angeles home when they suddenly heard ragtime music.
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The ragtime master Scott Joplin and the blues singer Gladys Bentley are among many black men and women whose deaths The New York Times overlooked — until now.
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During World War I, he served in the segregated 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, and directed its regimental band, which introduced ragtime across Europe.
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Our top craft entry was the No. 803 Ragtime Rye from New York Distilling in Brooklyn, which, though young, raw and oaky, showed great distinction and potential.
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The crew pitched specific ideas at us, like Garnet's bass being inspired by Michael Jackson, Pearl's piano having ragtime elements, and Amethyst's drums being loose and wild.
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Fallon always puts a little spin on his ragtime renditions, and Tuesday, the late night show host invited Weezer themselves to join the seven-piece a capella shindig.
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The oldest pianist on the program, at 183, will be the stride and ragtime authority Dick Hyman; the youngest, at 13, will be the postbop prodigy Joey Alexander.
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The oldest pianist on the program, at 89, will be the stride and ragtime authority Dick Hyman; the youngest, at 13, will be the postbop prodigy Joey Alexander.
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Marin Mazzie, the three-time Tony Award nominee best known for her roles in Ragtime and Passion, died Thursday morning after suffering from ovarian cancer for three years.
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In the first half of the 20th century, long before Jimi Hendrix dismantled it at Woodstock, ragtime, swing and jazz versions of the song caused consternation and backlash.
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"People always commented that he never smiled," said Edward A. Berlin, who wrote the biography "King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era," and helps organize the concert.
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But in the end its pointed metaphor for labor's relation to capital is clear, with a churning, nightmarish evocation of mill machines eventually overwhelming a gentle ragtime workers' song.
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A Broadway leading lady known for powerhouse performances in "Ragtime" and "Kiss Me, Kate," she brings a touch of brass to a character Ms. O'Hara forged in silver filigree.
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" The irony of having his play canceled by Brandeis, his alma mater, was not lost on Mr. Weller, whose other credits include the movie scripts for "Hair" and "Ragtime.
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In Brooklyn, Allen Katz's New York Distilling Company has started giving some of his Ragtime Rye, a whiskey he introduced last fall, a sojourn in barrels that held applejack.
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Though the score evokes spirituals, jazz, folk songs, ragtime and Dixieland, the elements of musical theater came through most strongly in this performance, led with brio by Stephen Lord.
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Louisiana has long had a reputation for great music, starting with the ragtime and jazz of the late 2114s, all of it heavily influenced by Acadian and Creole backgrounds.
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The music can also feel analogous to New Orleans ragtime, in which case Pixinguinha — born Alfredo da Rocha Viana Jr. in Rio — could be considered the Scott Joplin of Brazil.
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Later in their careers, as Ms. Ahrens and Mr. Flaherty took on big-boned projects like "Ragtime" and "Anastasia," they produced big-boned songs that sometimes struck me as turgid.
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His other notable work included the rock musical "Hair" in 1979, "Ragtime" in 1981 and "The People vs Larry Flint" in 1996, which was nominated for an Academy Award that year.
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"Hair," a 1979 adaptation of the counterculture Broadway musical, and "Ragtime," which came next, in 1981, a film version of the E. L. Doctorow novel, with James Cagney, left less impression.
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His other notable work included the rock musical "Hair" in 1979, "Ragtime" in 1981 and "The People vs Larry Flynt" in 1996, which was nominated for an Academy Award that year.
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On "Nutty," he veers toward the traditional — intimating Monk's stride-piano technique by way of early ragtime guitar, then running through a rising sequence of diminished chords like a bebop guitarist.
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He considers the intersection of musicianship and morality from the early days of "blackface minstrelsy"—in which white performers insultingly darkened their faces—through to the birth of ragtime and jazz.
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The first time he realized he wanted to play piano was when he peeked into a music room and saw a fellow second-grader named Anna "laying down some badass" ragtime.
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In 2017, following the fifth security lapse at NSA in as many years, I obtained and published classified documents relating to the government's Ragtime program and the Red Disk intelligence sharing platform.
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William Brohn, one of musical theater's top orchestrators, who worked on more than a dozen Broadway shows and won a Tony in 1998 for "Ragtime," died on May 11 in New Haven.
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One wishes that the creative team — the same one behind "Ragtime" — of Terrence McNally (book), Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) had found a way to make it cohesive and more balanced.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - When spirits dealer Daniel Taytslin brought his first pallet of American Ragtime Rye whiskey into Shanghai in early April, the 672 bottles faced a 5 percent import tariff at China's customs.
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The advent of this new technology meant a song could proliferate outside of the oral tradition, and guided music into its first stage of "pop," with genres like big band, jazz, and ragtime.
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Armstrong possessed a rare gift for fusing disparate types of music that moved him — he had command over the passion of blues, excitement of ragtime, and the poignancy of operatic and classical melodies.
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At the time of their releases, the genre was still a largely misunderstood art, an evolution of blues and ragtime that was deeply rooted in the experience of being black in the United States.
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Kadish uses the plague and the Great Fire of London just as Leonardo Padura used Rembrandt in his recent book Heretics and E. L. Doctorow used Harry Houdini and Booker T. Washington in Ragtime.
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In the 1980s, he found his first opportunity to combine the mediums through a tool called SIDPlayer, which made it possible for the Commodore 64 to produce music—including the ragtime music he loved.
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With its aching harmonies and seamless blend of Latin rhythms, ragtime, Romantic flourish and ineffable nostalgia, this is one of those rare pieces whose emotional impact can withstand familiarity; it gets me every time.
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Mr. Gordon, whose previous operas include "The House Without a Christmas Tree" and "The Grapes of Wrath," has written a score for the opera with period touches, influenced by ragtime, cakewalk and the blues.
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In Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's unnerving orchestral piece "Symphony, Antiphony" (1977), familiar sounds—D-major arpeggios, Mahlerian string laments, bits of ragtime piano—are presented in jumbled fashion, like snapshots and clippings in a Rauschenberg combine.
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Creative partners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty were still years away from producing their smash hit Ragtime, which would prove to be a much less subtle treatise on race than Island's comparatively complicated fairy tale.
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During World War I, leading the 369th Infantry Regiment's "Harlem Hellfighters" band, he poured ragtime, blues and early-jazz influences into an orchestral sound that was equally informed by the marches of John Philip Sousa.
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" Mr. Drabinsky was eager to restart his work in theater, and had experience with musicals that deal with racism in American history, having produced "Parade" and "Ragtime," as well as a revival of "Show Boat.
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And he is a born entertainer, up for any post-recital fun that's going and able to deliver ragtime with the best of them; the blind American jazz pianist Art Tatum is another of his heroes.
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"Scott Joplin's Treemonisha," Gunter Schuller, arranged in 1976 "Treemonisha" is a folk opera written by Joplin, an African-American composer and pianist who was born circa 1867-1868, according to the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation.
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As a pianist, Mr. Abrams could spontaneously weave references to historical jazz styles — including ragtime, stride piano, the compositions of Duke Ellington, swing and bebop — together with his own fleet modernism, far-reaching harmonies and dissonance.
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While they could come close to sounding like the blues musicians they idolized, they had a distinctive quality of their own, forged from a mix of down-home blues, ragtime, string-band music and country folk.
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And ragtime experienced an unlikely revival in the 1970s after the Academy Award-winning movie "The Sting" featured his music prominently and a version of his song "The Entertainer" reached No. 3 on the Billboard chart.
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Its editor, Amisha Padnani, described what she discovered through the stories of figures like Scott Joplin, the ragtime master; Gladys Bentley, a gender-bending blues singer; and Major Taylor, the first black world champion in cycling.
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Her name is Janine LaManna, and she's a 50-year-old Broadway veteran, whose resume includes roles in the original productions of Ragtime and The Drowsey Chaperone and the 2005 revival of Sweet Charity alongside Christina Applegate.
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One is that, having established himself as a handsome, easygoing Hollywood character actor with Roots, The Towering Inferno and ads for Hertz, he wanted to play a key, radically different role in the 1981 movie of Ragtime.
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We learn almost as much about vaudeville, ragtime, Victrolas, Ash Can painters and the realist works of Theodore Dreiser and Edith Wharton as we do about City Hall and Tammany Hall, centers of the era's corrupt politics.
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Dash's imagery would inspire an entire generation of women filmmakers, including her contemporary Zeinabu irene Davis, whose film Compensation (1999) is in the style of early 20th-century pictures, complete with title cards and ragtime piano accompaniment.
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We know about Buddy Bolden [a cornetist born in 1877 who became a key figure in the development of ragtime music in New Orleans] because he was the greatest single influence on Louis Armstrong [pictured on previous page].
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See for yourself—we've got the premiere of a tasty cut called "Je T'aime" right here—it's a mammoth slow-burner that methodically adds in chunky bongos, plucked electric bass, whispered vocals, and even a touch of ragtime piano.
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Toting an acoustic guitar, his face generally half-hidden by a Panama hat and dark glasses, Mr. Redbone channeled performers and songwriters from ragtime, Delta blues, Tin Pan Alley and more, material not generally heard by the rock generation.
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The editor of the collection, Amisha Padnani, described what she discovered through the stories of figures like Scott Joplin, the ragtime master; Gladys Bentley, a gender-bending blues singer; and Major Taylor, the first black world champion in cycling.
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While studying at Northwestern, she was cast as Audra McDonald's understudy in a pre-Broadway production of "Ragtime," in Toronto, and while there, Disney came calling, offering her a role in a pre-Broadway production of "The Lion King," in Minneapolis.
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As a chapter of history, it makes great drama, and for the first act "The Hello Girls," at 59E59 Theaters, is a rather thrilling thing — smart, human and sardonically feminist, with a lively ragtime-and-jazz score by Peter Mills.
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The project mostly hews to the standard PBS history format, with a large cast of scholars and writers — more than 40 — talking over antique photographs and documents, with the occasional impressionistic recreation of events and snippets of gospel and ragtime.
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For "Morocco" he composed a shifting score that matched the surrealist, multileveled nature of the story (with a libretto by John Donahue), mixing ragtime, blues, American musical comedy, pastiche and even elements of more "serious," as he put, contemporary compositional techniques.
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Michael Cooper, Times classical music reporter With its aching harmonies and seamless blend of Latin rhythms, ragtime, Romantic flourish and ineffable nostalgia, this is one of those rare pieces whose emotional impact can withstand familiarity; it gets me every time.
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You'll spend the first of its 204 lectures learning how to read music and drilling popular rhythm-style tunes à la Billy Joel and Norah Jones, then expand your knowledge by advancing to more technical styles such as jazz, blues, ballads, and ragtime.
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Ms. Faye, who sang "Your Daddy's Son," from "Ragtime," in a group medley and then "A New Life," from "Jekyll & Hyde," for her solo, has pursued musical theater seriously since ninth grade and plans to major in it at Penn State next year.
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To ragtime piano music by Scott Joplin, Charles Luckeyth Roberts and William Bolcom, admirably played by Joseph Mohan, dancers cross and recross the stage in cartoonlike horizontal paths, mainly in duos, all so lively and individual that they're like classic vaudeville acts.
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"Anastasia" the musical, which features a book by the acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally and songs by the Tony-winning team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (who all collaborated on "Ragtime"), shifts between the worldviews of both inspirations, while pretending there's no disconnect.
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The show features music by Stephen Flaherty and a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, a composing team that won a Tony Award in 1998 for the score of "Ragtime," and that is represented this season on Broadway with "Anastasia," now in previews.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 1914 short film, A Busy Day, Charlie Chaplin, dressed in drag, plays a suffragette, wreaking havoc and getting into fistfights all over town for no real reason, sans dialogue and accompanied by a ragtime score.
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When casting, the small roles were as important as the larger ones: the catatonic mental patients, the flunkeys at the emperor's court, the sulky girls lined up to be Miss Fireman in "The Firemen's Ball", white workers casually baiting the black hero of "Ragtime".
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Commodore, of course, faded in prominence, but by the mid–1990s, Roache had discovered MIDI—and soon, the internet discovered Roache, who had built an internet presence based on his creation of MIDI files and spreading the good word on how great ragtime music was.
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Roache noted that his interest in ragtime was perfect for highlighting the capabilities of the MIDI format—in part because it was a piano-driven style of music, which meant that it more or less stayed consistent no matter the quality of your sound card.
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But in the process, he transcended the form, and while he certainly wasn't a household name, he had become an important part of the ragtime community in the late '90s—recording two albums, Syncopated Odyssey and Hot Kumquats with the help of the MIDI format.
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The well-known composers and lyricists represented included Steven Lutvak ("A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder"), Alan Menken and Mr. Schwartz (the Disney movie "Enchanted"), Tom Kitt ("Next to Normal"), Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Ragtime") and Jason Robert Brown ("The Bridges of Madison County").
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He popularized ragtime, an early form of American music combining classical European harmonies with syncopated African rhythms, in the late 1800s with his hit, "Maple Leaf Rag" — the sheet music sold half a million copies, and the song became a soundtrack to the Gay Nineties.
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Some of that difficulty had to do with branding, since "Treemonisha" — in which the youthful title character dodges danger, 20 years or so after the Civil War, in order to become a teacher and community leader — is not best understood as a ragtime opera.
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Shuffle Along has all the elements of a Tony-winning production: Its cast is a to-die-for billing of Broadway A-listers, particularly Audra McDonald (who has won more Tonys than any performer in history), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime), and Billy Porter (Kinky Boots).
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Folk and country music were its principal sources, but such diverse figures as Van Dyke Parks, Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman would draw on more metropolitan sounds, including ragtime, vaudeville, musicals and American classical, as well as those of the American Gulf coast and the Caribbean.
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" Rudy Giuliani explains further (as the audience hisses): "The fact is that prostitution is not part of New York, drug dealing … mugging are not part of New York … if those sex shops weren't removed, you wouldn't have Lion King in there, and you wouldn't have Ragtime.
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In "Odeon," her company's official Joyce debut, Asherie engages with the music of the early-73th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, whose creative mix of musical styles, from waltzes to tangos to ragtime, reflects Asherie's own blend of dance, from street and house dance to vogueing to concert dance.
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The new 100-proof whiskey — for sipping neat or on ice — has a honeyed, spicy aroma and a warm flavor with hints of leather, baked bread and cinnamon: Applejack Barrel Finished Ragtime Rye Whiskey, $42 at Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit, 5 West 19th Street (Fifth Avenue), 212-929-2323, bottlerocket.com.
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It was a great idea to precede this work with another distinctively American piece: Ives's "Central Park in the Dark," in which soft cluster chords in the strings suggest the hazy summer nighttime in the park as sounds of whistled tunes, ragtime pianos from apartment windows and more intrude.
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Adams's playful title, quoting a remark apocryphally attributed to Martin Luther, led me to expect another example of what the composer has called his "trickster" mode—the most notorious instance being " Grand Pianola Music ," from 1982, in which Beethoven's "Emperor" arpeggios are thrown into a mixer with Rachmaninoff and ragtime.
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Bobby Steggert, who has proved an actor of radiant sensitivity in the Broadway revivals of "110 in the Shade" and "Ragtime," takes on the challenge of defining the play's subversively simple title in this production from the Keen Company and the Ensemble Studio Theater, directed by Linsay Firman. (theatrerow.org/clurman-theatre.)
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Other MacMillan pieces feel less important or interesting; the 1974 "Elite Syncopations" (performed by a mix of principals from different companies) is set to music by Scott Joplin and other ragtime composers, and its insistent perkiness and slightly hammy jokes pall, even though it is choreographically challenging and smoothly constructed.
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Besides being a great introduction to the blues, the museum celebrates African-American culture in St. Louis, which is also home to the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site where the ragtime composer lived, and The Griot Museum of Black History, featuring exhibits on slavery and wax figures of area-born celebrities, including Josephine Baker.
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At 18, Mr. Rivers was returning to the Jimmys for a second year, having again won his spot via the local awards in Charlotte, N.C. His classmate and childhood best friend, Amina Faye, won best actress at the Jimmys last year with a solo from "Ragtime," a show they starred in opposite each other.
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You'll read about Scott Joplin, the pianist and ragtime master who wrote "The Entertainer"; Gladys Bentley, the gender-bending blues singer who became 1920s Harlem royalty; Elizabeth Jennings, who stood up for civil rights when she sat down on a whites-only streetcar; and Major Taylor, the first black man to win a world championship in cycling.
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From Hindemith's percussive Ragtime (from the Suite "1922"), Mr. Denk turned to William Bolcom's wistful "Graceful Ghost Rag," then to Conlon Nancarrow's audacious Canon No. 1, ending with the jazz musician Donald Lambert's 763 take on the "Pilgrim's Chorus" from Wagner's "Tannhäuser," which, with due respect, turns this stirring music into a stride-bass, jazzy romp.
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Jurges, an excellent defender who remains one of the relatively few players in baseball history who could boast that he went to three World Series with the Chicago Cubs, was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn—insert every cliché about tough New York street kids of the ragtime years here—and, during his second season, had survived being shot twice by a showgirl.
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It's the first of many signs that the characters have no idea what they're dealing with: the harmonic memory of a country's evil and of a dream betrayed before anyone hummed it, from which nearly all other post-19th-century Western music grew into other vibrant incarnations: ragtime, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, rhythm and blues, pop, soul, rock 'n' roll, rap and hip-hop.
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Superfans Jaye Hunt and Robert Ackerman half-jokingly pointed out that Michele only had "to learn, like, four words" for her role in Ragtime and also theorized producer Ryan Murphy helped cover for her after she crossed over to TV. "Ryan Murphy knows the secret, and she only works with him because he reads her her lines and she remembers them," says Hunt in the video about the Glee and Scream Queens creator.
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The 235 gathering included 220-year-old Ramblin' Jack Elliott, who has shared stages with Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan; Riders in the Sky, whose influences include Bob Nolan's Sons of the Pioneers and Gene Autry; Michael Martin Murphey, who cites Bob Wills and Willie Nelson; and performances by Dom Flemons, a co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, whose stylings allude to ragtime, Piedmont blues and string-band music.
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