At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...
When Richard Dowling was 9, the movie “The Sting” came out, with the famous Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack that included six ragtime songs composed by Scott Joplin. “I literally fell in love with ‘The ...
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Brazilian Ragtime

But the Brazilian influence north of the border is a dirt path compared with the superhighway stretching the other way. Simas ...
How did some of your favorite songs come to be? BroadwayWorld is getting the story behind the song in exclusive interviews from your favorite Broadway composers. Below, watch as Stephen Flaherty, ...
Audiences will enjoy familiar Christmas songs and carols played from their original 19th-century scores and lively ragtime ...
In 1984, Superior resident Tim Sandor traveled to a ragtime music festival in Toronto, Ontario. At the Detroit airport, flying out of Duluth, he met fellow enthusiast Yvonne Cloutier. Together they ...