The Ragtime Debate
Donald Macleod examines how America's critics and musical establishment responded to ragtime.
Donald Macleod examines how America's critics and musical establishment responded to ragtime. Supporters claimed ragtime was 'the only original and characteristic music America has produced thus far', but the music was seen by some as a moral, intellectual and physical threat.
Weeping Willow
Piano roll played by Scott Joplin
Bethena (A Concert Waltz)
Morten Gunnar Larsen (piano)
Something Doing & Binks' Waltz
The Southland Stingers, Ralph Grierson (piano), George Sponhaltz (conductor)
The Chrysanthemum & The Cascades
Dick Hyman (piano)
Treemonisha (Act 2 excerpt)
Superstition; Frolic of the bears
Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra, Morten Gunnar Larsen (director), Seim Songkor, Leif Egil Vatn酶y (conductor)
Rosebud March
Scott Kirby (piano)
A Concert Waltz
Katia & Marielle Lab猫que (two pianos)
Treemonisha (Act 2 excerpt)
The wasp nest; The rescue; We will rest awhile; Going home; Aunt Dinah has blowed the horn
Simon ..... Raymond Bazemore (bass)
Cephus ..... Dwight Ransom (vocalist)
Treemonisha ..... Carmen Balthrop (soprano)
Remus ..... Curtis Rayam (tenor)
Chorus and Orchestra of Houston Grand Opera, Gunther Schuller (conductor).
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Music Played
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Scott Joplin
Weeping Willow
Performer: Scott Joplin. -
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Scott Joplin
Bethena (A concert waltz)
Performer: Morten Gunnar Larsen. -
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Scott Joplin
Something Doing; Binks' Waltz
Performer: Ralph Grierson. Performer: The Southland Stingers. Conductor: George Sponhaltz. -
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Scott Joplin
The Chrysanthemum; The Cascades
Performer: Dick Hyman. -
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Scott Joplin
Superstition; Frolic of the Bears (Treemonisha, Act 2)
Performer: Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra. Performer: Morten Gunnar Larsen. Performer: Seim Songkor. Conductor: Leif Egil Vatnoy. -
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Scott Joplin
Rosebud March
Performer: Scott Kirby. -
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Scott Joplin
A Concert Waltz
Performer: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que. -
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Scott Joplin
The Wasp Nest; The Rescue; We will rest awhile; Going home; Aunt Dinah has Blowed the Horn (Treemonisha, Act 2)
Performer: Raymond Bazemore. Performer: Dwight Ransom. Performer: Carmen Balthrop. Performer: Curtis Rayam. Performer: Chorus and Orchestra of Houston Grand Opera. Conductor: Gunther Schuller.
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