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In 1903, Stark issued a "Maple Leaf Rag Song", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. [11] Brown's lyrics tell the story of a poor man from Accomack County, Virginia, who stumbles into a ballroom where, in spite of his anxiety over the state of his appearance, he manages to wow the crowd with the Maple Leaf Rag.
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He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music, especially his transcription of "St. Louis Tickle" and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag". Van Ronk was a widely admired avuncular figure in the Village, presiding over the coffeehouse folk culture and acting as a friend to many up-and-coming artists by inspiring, assisting, and ...
Joplin composes ragtime music. One day his "Maple Leaf Rag" is heard by John Stark, a publisher of sheet music in Sedalia, Missouri and later St. Louis, Missouri. Stark is impressed, buys the rights to the composition and sells it, with Joplin sharing some of the profits. Joplin's new songs also achieve a great popularity.
The original cover page showed an elderly black man picking up rags in front of a ramshackle cabin, and has been interpreted as a double pun, first on the activities of a rag (or junk) picker, and second on a slang term for ragtime, "picking the piano". [3] The rag was given the following credits: Picked By Scott Joplin Arranged By Chas. N ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Promoted Maple Leaf Rag - played by Scott Joplin 1916 sample.ogg--Bencherlite Talk 01:06, ...
I realise the information page is a bit unclear - Commons:Uploader ruined format and made things rather more unclear, but it's a user-made recording by Apatterno, (see User_talk:Apatterno#Maple Leaf Rag). I'll notify him of this, and fix the page. =) Shoemaker's Holiday 22:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Live at Nassau Coliseum '78 is a double live album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 2011.. The live concert recording was recorded at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on February 9, 1978, and was remastered from original analog tapes for this release.