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Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow .
The Collector's History of Ragtime – Label: Murray Hill Records (1980) Ragtime - Label: Music For Pleasure (1984) Roots of Ragtime - Label: Madacy (1994) King of Ragtime – Label: Delta Distribution (1995) Gems of Texas Ragtime – Label: American Ragtime Company (1997) Long Lost Blues - Label: PianoMania Music (1997) Scott Joplin's Greatest ...
While the word ragtime was first known to be used in 1896, the term probably originates in the dance events hosted by plantation slaves known as “rags”. [4] The first recorded use of the term ragtime was by vaudeville musician Ben Harney who in 1896 used it to describe the piano music he played (which he had extracted from banjo and fiddle players).
The "Red Back Book" of the album title is taken from the popular name for the collection of band arrangements of ragtime music featuring Joplin's music, "Standard High-Class Rags" published by the Stark Music Company of St. Louis around 1912. [1] The name came from the red color of the front and back cover.
Benjamin scheduled a Mozart program on solo tuba at a concert hall, but instead led a group in performing ragtime music, leaving open the doors to draw in a wider crowd. [3] [9] Before a full house, Benjamin's group played selections by Irving Berlin and Victor Herbert, the W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues" and Joplin's "Peacherine Two-Step."
For more than 20 years, the River Raisin Ragtime Revue has worked to preserve the history of America's original popular music.
President Ford and the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble [26] From the program for the second annual Gunther Schuller Legacy Concert in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Nov. 19, 2018 The group continued to concertize extensively after 1974, becoming independent of the conservatory when Schuller left the school in 1977.
The series covers some of the many different genres that have fallen under the "pop" label between the mid-19th century and 1976, including folk, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and music hall, musical theatre, country, swing, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll and others. [2]