Scott Joplin

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CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2001 2001

The Brooklyn-born son of immigrants had been so inspired by the music of Scott Joplin that he dropped out of school in the eighth grade to become a full-time ragtime pianist.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

I saw where Scott Joplin played his ragtime to trail-weary cowboys.

Spring Cleaning for Poets Con Chapman 2011

"Moreover, with all due respect to Gunther Schuller and the Houston Grand Opera," Mr. Benjamin continues, "in 1911—decades before the Civil Rights Movement—Scott Joplin would never have had entrée into a major American opera company with a big orchestra."

'Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Most pianists who perform Gottschalk play in a very linear, static dynamic, as they might play a Scott Joplin piece.

'You want to make a silent film – about jazz?' 2011

The prodigious Floridian pianist has done full-length tributes to Duke Ellington and Scott Joplin , but it's hard to believe he's never recorded a whole set of Monk.

Vince Giordano and the Underground Nighthawk Boogie Will Friedwald 2011

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In 1975, a fullscale Europeanstyle orchestration appeared to offer the last word on Scott Joplin's opera.

'Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

But I doubt somehow that Riefenstahl contemplated playing Scott Joplin under her scenes of the Nuremberg rally in Triumph of the Will.

Glenn Young: Au Contraire! The King's Speech Glenn Young 2011

Scott Joplin is best known for his jaunty piano rags, including "The Entertainer," "Solace" works later featured on the soundtrack to the 1973 film "The Sting" and, above all, "The Maple Leaf Rag."

'Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Moments of jazzy loucheness offered an implicit reminder that Scott Joplin died the year this revised work was completed, 1917.

CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review 2012