During his career as a celebrated black piano player in the early 1900's, Scott Joplin said of his music, "Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast." For Joplin and many ...

ST. LOUIS — During Black History Month, 5 on Your Side is celebrating the history that was made in St. Louis, and highlighting the next generation of change-makers. One of the most influential ...

Most people's knowledge of ragtime doesn't go past a few classic Scott Joplin compositions, and practitioners of the style today (not to mention composers) are few and far between. However, there has ...

BATTLE CREEK --Patrons got a musical lesson as they listened to jazz pianist Dick Hyman at noon Tuesday at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Hyman, who has researched early jazz and its practitioners, ...

For its annual summer musical, Chance Theater turns its eye to the late ‘90s with “Ragtime.” Rarely seen in smaller houses, this period-piece sprawl with multiple themes, interweaving plot lines and a ...

The King of Ragtime's grave went unmarked until the 1970s. Scott Joplin lived anything but a quiet life. The "King of Ragtime" - as he'd later be called - started making a name for himself while ...

Three years after he won a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, or “genius” award, Chicago pianist Reginald Robinson has embarked upon the most ambitious venture of his career. Armed with camera, ...

Pianist William McNally plays the 'Maple Leaf Rag' for students at Skyline Elementary School in Sedalia, Mo. Ragtime is big with the kids in Sedalia. One day this spring, about 100 of them cheered for ...

Strolling up Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland, one can’t help but hear the sounds of ragtime music drifting from the Refreshment Corner where there sits a pianist tinkling the ivories on one of the ...

"Ragtime" Rick Grafing jokes with members of the crowd assembled to hear him perform Thursday afternoon at the Perrysburg Area Senior Center. In between playing old hits on the piano, Mr. Grafing told ...

has one foot in the past and everything else in the future. The 2009 Broadneck High School alumnus will graduate next spring from University of Maryland College Park with a degree in economics and a ...

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