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2023 Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA. Signature Theatre presented Ragtime as part of its 2023–2024 season in a production directed by Matthew Gardiner. 2023 Broadway At Music Circus, Sacramento, CA. Broadway Sacramento presented Ragtime as part of their 2023 summer season. It was produced in the round and was directed by Gerry McIntyre.
Just over thirty years later he was recognized, and later historian Rudi Blesh wrote a large book about ragtime, which he dedicated to the memory of Joplin. [57] Although he was penniless and disappointed at the end of his life, Joplin set the standard for ragtime compositions and played a key role in the development of ragtime music.
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).
During his career, Joplin wrote over 40 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first pieces, the " Maple Leaf Rag " (1899), has been recognized as the archetypal rag and influenced subsequent rag composers thanks to its rhythmic patterns, melody lines, and harmony.
"The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. [1]It was sold first as sheet music by John Stark & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, [2] and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. [1]
James Sylvester Scott (February 12, 1885 – August 30, 1938) was an American ragtime composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. [2]
Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime.
His "chamber-scale musical," Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein, written with his Ragtime director, Frank Galati, premiered in Chicago in February 2006, in a co-production between the About Face Theatre and the Museum of Contemporary Art. The musical won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award as the “Best New Work” of the year.