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52nd TONY AWARDS RAGTIME

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, and many others

Press clips of the show taken from the "Creating Ragtime" PBS documentary.

Ragtime! http://www.mimiblais.com/

http://nylonguitarist.com The classic Spanish Ballad played ragtime style.

Rag - Ragtime

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Title song from "Ragtime" performed at the Tony awards.

Fiddle tune on 78 RPM Victor record 19149-B. Artist is A C (Eck) Robertson. Played on a Brunswick phonograph; this time with a loud tone needle.

Played on an SS Stewart Special Thorobred 5-string banjo circa 1885

Dixieland Crackerjacks http://www.dixielandcrackerjacks.nl Recorded live on the Island of Schiermonnikoog. Dixieland Crackerjacks playing Irving Berlin's : Alexander's Ragtime Band "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is the name of a song by Irving Berlin. It was his first major hit, in 1911. There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Irving Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft composition submitted by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher.[1] "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is not itself an example of the ragtime musical idiom; apart from some mild syncopation, it has almost none of ragtime's characteristic features. Nonetheless, the lyrics clearly refer to the arrival of African-American musicians on the popular scene with their then-new idea of playing standard songs in a more exciting up-tempo style. The first lines establish the African-American context: Oh ma honey . . . ain't you goin' to the leaderman, the ragged meter man References to "jazzing up" popular music include: They can play a bugle call like you never heard before So natural that you want to go to war That's just the bestest band what am, honey lamb and: If you care to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime The new style included new ways of playing traditional instruments as well: There's a fiddle with notes that screeches Like a chicken And the clarinet is a colored pet This song was played on the decks of the Titanic by the ship's band, as the ship sank beneath the waters on April 15, 1912. The song has been recorded by many artists, including Al Jolson, Billy Murray, Louis Armstrong, George Formby, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Charles. A 1938 film of the same name was loosely based on the song. A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979. The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U.S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination. Michel Muller - trumpet Slidin' Selena - trombone Koos Greven - banjo Lielian Tan - drums Bert Brandsma - bass saxophone

Ragtime Annie is one of the most well-known fiddle tunes in our neck of the woods. We throw in an extra bridge for fun. www.banjophil.com

http://www.scottjoplin.org Susan Cordell playing "Crazy Blues" by Perry Bradford. Susan and her brother, Steve Spraklen, consider themselves protégés of the late "Ragtime Bob" Darch who introduced them to Eubie Blake with whom she appeared at the 1st Sedalia Festival in 1974. The performance here is of a 1920 piece learned from a piano roll arranged and cut by Eubie Blake. Recorded live at the 2007 Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival at the Liberty Theater's 2:00 p.m. - The Cradle of Ragtime Concert on Thursday, May 31 in Sedalia, Missouri. Hosted by the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation, (866) 218-6258.

Broadway Cast of "Ragtime" performing at the 1998 Tony Awards. It went on to win Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical; Audra McDonald won Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Music by Stephen Flaherty and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Original Cast Included: Tateh ~ Peter Friedman Father ~ Mark Jacoby Mother ~ Marin Mazzie Sarah ~ Audra McDonald Coalhouse Walker Jr. ~ Brian Stokes Mitchell Little Boy ~ Alex Strange Little Girl ~ Lea Michele

http://www.WestCoastRagtime.com Everybody gathered around enjoying Tom Brier's piano playing! It was GREAT! This all took place during the Annual West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento, CA in mid November of 2008. "K.K. Ragtime" is the title of this melody and the composer's name is Kazumi Totaka. The piano arrangement is by Ron O'Dell and Tom Brier embellishes upon it brilliantly as usual! _ november 11/08 WCRF

http://www.scottjoplin.org Richard Dowling playing "Original Rags" by Scott Joplin. Recorded live at the 2007 Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival at the Liberty Theater's 8:00 p.m. - The Entertainer Concert titled "Something Old, Something New" on May 30 in Sedalia, Missouri. Hosted by the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation, (866) 218-6258.

Alexander's Ragtime Band - Popular Warsaw music band, playing "Happy Jazz" from twenties and thirties of the Twenty Century. In the band are playing: Wlodzimierz Sadowski - trumpet, voc; Aleksander Michalski - clarinet, alto sax; Waldemar Wolski - trombone; Wlodzimierz Halik - bass sax; Arkadiusz Nowak - banjo.

Videos, music, lyrics and more at http://sftmusicals.890m.com Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald and Marin Mazzie lead the original 1998 Broadway cast in a performance of the title song 'Ragtime' at the Tony Awards.

Tom has not seen or heard the music before this recording, but does a terrific job on the first time around, doesn't he? This tune was composed by Kazumi Totaka (戸高一生) for the Nintendo video game series どうぶつの森 -- or "Animal Crossing" in English-speaking countries. I thought it would be fun to transcribe the tune and see what one of the best sight-readers of ragtime thought of it. The breaks in the second half, and some of the bass runs, when the tune changes key to G major, are my own inventions which I wrote into the score in an effort to spice it up a bit. http://users.california.com/~keeper/music/kkragtime.pdf Use the above URL to download the sheet music that Tom is reading.

Marcsmen at BHS International Convention in Nashville Tennessee.

Performer:Sviatoslav Richter free sheetmusic... http://freedomainlibrary.blogspot.com/ ************************************** , Germany, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child. He entered the Hochsche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main where he studied conducting, composition and violin under Arnold Mendelssohn and Bernhard Sekles, supporting himself by playing in dance bands and musical-comedy outfits. He led the Frankfurt Opera orchestra from 1915 to 1923 and played in the Rebner string quartet from 1914 in which he played second violin, and later the viola. In 1921 he founded the Amar Quartet,[1] playing viola, and extensively toured Europe. In 1922, some of his pieces were heard in the International Society for Contemporary Music festival at Salzburg, which first brought him to the attention of an international audience. The following year, he began to work as an organizer of the Donaueschingen Festival, where he programmed works by several avant garde composers, including Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg. From 1927 he taught composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In the 1930s he made a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where (at the invitation of Atatürk) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early efforts for the establishment of Turkish State Opera and Ballet. Towards the end of the 1930s, he made several tours in America as a viola and viola d'amore soloist. Hindemith's relationship to the Nazis is a complicated one: some condemned his music as "degenerate" (largely on the basis of his early, sexually charged operas such as Sancta Susanna), and on December 6 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced Hindemith as an "atonal noisemaker." Others, though, thought that he might provide Germany with an example of a modern German composer, who by this time was writing music based in tonality, and with frequent references to folk music; the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler's defence of Hindemith, published in 1934, takes precisely this line. The controversy around his work continued throughout the thirties, with the composer falling in and out of favour with the Nazi hierarchy; he finally emigrated to Switzerland in 1938 (partly as his wife was Jewish), and in the meantime had sworn an oath to Hitler, had accepted a commission to write music for a Luftwaffe event (although it never materialised), conducted for official Nazi concerts, and accepted a position on the Reich Music Chamber. This part of Hindemith's life has until recently been downplayed by historians of the composer (such as Skelton or Kemp), who have mostly tried to assert his anti-Nazi beliefs. Continued at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hindemith

Esa Pekka Salonen dirige a 11 instrumentistas de la London Sinfonietta en la ejecución del Ragtime de Igor Stravinsky

http://www.scottjoplin.org Richard Dowling making his first Sedalia appearance playing "Graceful Ghost" by William Bolcum. Recorded live at the 2007 Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival at the Liberty Theater's 2:00 p.m."Ragtime Revelations" concert on Saturday, June 2 in Sedalia, Missouri. Hosted by the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation, (866) 218-6258.

The Five Pennies - Danny Kaye & Barbara Bel Geddes - Lullabye in Ragtime

Excerpts of performances from the 2006 West Coast Ragtime Festival. This video is part 1 of 2. Performers in part 1 include: Dan Grinstead, Glenn Jenks, Raspberry Jam Band, John Remmers, Sophie Rivard, Frank French, Andrew Barrett, Jack Bradshaw, Chris Bradshaw, Mark Allen Jones, Adam Swanson, Jim Radloff, Mike Schwimmer, Ken Keeler, Robbie Rhodes, Tom Brier, Helen Burns, Eric Marchese, Neil Blaze, Terry Waldo, and Adam Yarian. Even more performers are in part 2, so watch for it!