Scott Joplin News

The 1970s were an exceedingly fertile time period for composer Anthony Braxton, whose considerable output was primarily documented by Arista Records, including his Creative Orchestra Music, which encapsulated the entire history of jazz-from Scott Joplin to Albert Ayler .

The 2010 season of free programming at Arts World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan will include a performance by Broadway's Jason Danieley and the Classical Theatre of New York's Hamlet .

Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History. Every week, wea ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it.

American composer Scott Joplin, the "King of Ragtime," composed dozens of legendary ragtime songs in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including such iconic pieces as "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer." Scott Joplin's Early Days The details of Scott Joplin's early life are not well documented.

Paul Asaro is known as one of the finest among a select group of pianists who perform the demanding, two-handed piano styles – including the stride piano of Fats Waller, the New Orleans styles of Jelly Roll Morton, the ragtime of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake, plus stomps, boogie-woogie and swing.

Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged.

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Most people's knowledge of ragtime doesn't go past a few classic Scott Joplin compositions, and practitioners of the style today are few and far between.

The Clearwater Community Concert Association is proud to present the dynamic woodwind/piano duo, Ebony and Ivory, to open the 2009-2010 concert season.

Guitar Series - Richard Smith and Julie Adams: Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Richard and Julie's ever-changing repertoire will include a variety of instrumental and vocal music from Scott Joplin rags, Sousa marches, fiddle tunes, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, gypsy jazz, Mozart, Bach, Beatles, Chopin, ballads, and lightning-fast barn ...

Richard Smith and Julie Adams, Saturday, October 24, 2009, 7:30 p.m., at Mildred Owen Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, in the building with the colorful mural.

UMKC houses 35,000 pieces of sheet music - some by famous musicians and some by mostly unknown artists.

The Sheldon presents the St. Louis Ragtimers, Tuesday and Wednesday, November 10 and 11, 2009 at 10 a.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall.

Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime, was born in Texas in 1868. He grew up in Texarkana, Texas and that is where he first started playing the piano.

Music from Scott Joplin ragtime to Chopin classical will be served up at the Faculty Gala Concert at the Wausau Conservatory of Music.

Pink Martini, an orchestra with a wide range of sounds, was conceived as an opening act for the Del Rubio Triplets, an all-women band, in 1994.

Picking the strings with his fingers and thumbs, guitarist and Linton native Kade Puckett has been a mainstay of the Music Fest all five years of its existence.

Maudslay Arts Center in Newburyport starts off with some New Orleans jazz then segues into some roots music for a full weekend of concerts at the outdoor amphitheater within Maudslay State Park on Curzon Mill Road.

JAZZ: Put down your trumpets and tenor saxes. It was keyboard virtuoso Dick Hyman who began Alison Kerr's love affair with jazz.

A Roundabout Theater Company presentation, by special arrangement with Rodger Hess, of a musical in two acts by Mark Saltzman, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and Scott Joplin.

As always, the free concert is at 8 p.m. Thursday in Fremont Park, Fourth Avenue and Union Street.