"Ragtime" is a tragedy set to music. Unfortunately, the musical is also tragically out of date. Though well-staged by the Thalian Association under the direction of Michael Walton Jones, the story is ...

All over Duluth this weekend, musicians and audiences will be celebrating the American precursor to jazz, ragtime music, courtesy of the Lake Superior Ragtime Society and its annual Ragtime Festival. ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Max Morath, a Colorado Springs native who as a pianist and musical director championed ragtime music, and who around 1960 wrote, performed and co-produced 28 ...

Ragtime music, with its syncopated or "ragged" rhythms, is considered by many observers to be the first purely American form of popular music. Drawing on a diversity of styles, ragtime emerged from ...

BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...

The life-altering moment for Mark Nuismer occurred 30 years ago when the teenager heard someone play "Maple Leaf Rag" at his Salt Lake City high school. "It was so hard, I thought I'd never be able to ...

Ragtime music, with its syncopated, polyrhythmic style, was born, in the 1890s in the black saloons and brothels of southern and mid-western cities like Baltimore and St. Louis. It was at the center ...