1966) Peter Gammond, Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era (1975) J. See Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis, They All Played Ragtime (rev. Several of Joplin's rags were used as background music for the Hollywood film The Sting (1973), and a Joplin Festival was held at Sedalia in 1974. A revival of interest in ragtime occurred in the 1970s. Some of his compositions are “The Entertainer” (1902), “Rose Leaf Rag” (1907), “Gladiolus Rag” (1907), “Fig Leaf Rag” (1908), and “Magnetic Rag” (1914). Joplin's rags were highly innovative, characterized by a lyricism and suppleness that elevated ragtime from honky-tonk piano music to a serious art form. In 1916 he was confined to the Manhattan State Hospital, where he died the following year. This failure and the declining interest in ragtime are thought to have affected his personality, which became moody and temperamental. Joplin published the sheet music himself, in 1913 although a fairly unexceptional song, 'A Real Slow Drag' generated a certain amount of controversy when it was claimed Irving Berlin had ripped off the music. Joplin continued to write ragtime music and moved (1909) to New York City, where he had considerable success until 1915, when at his own expense he produced a second ragtime opera, Treemonisha (1911), that failed to gain recognition. This is the last piece from Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha, which was performed only once during his lifetime, the drag being a dance. However, his next two major efforts, a folk ballet titled Rag Time Dance (1902) and a ragtime opera called A Guest of Honor (never published) were failures. Biography Scott Joplin (c.1867-1917) Dubbed the ‘King of Ragtime’, Scott Joplin (c.1867-1917) was one of the most important and influential composers at the turn of the 20th century. In 1899 he published the “Maple Leaf Rag,” and its success was instantaneous. During this time he studied music at George Smith College, an educational institution for blacks sponsored by the Methodist Church. When the group disbanded (1896), he returned to Sedalia, where he stayed about four years. For the next two years Joplin toured with a vocal ensemble he had formed and made his first efforts at composing ragtime. In 1894 he moved to Sedalia, Mo., and played second cornet in a local band. This is our collection of basic interesting facts about Scott Joplin. Hamlisch won a 1975 Tony Award for his score for the Broadway play A Chorus Line.Born in Texarkana, Texas Joplin was self-taught and left home in his early teens to seek his fortune in music. Billy Dee Williams starred in a 1977 bio pic on Joplin. Scott Joplin's name was in relatively tiny print. Their was a controversy about the film credits of The Sting. ![]() Its success brought long-overdue attention to one of the few remaining ragtime masters Eubie Blake who made frequent guest appearances on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, Saturday Night Live, and other TV shows. An instrumental single from the soundtrack, "The Entertainer" went to number three pop in the spring of 1974. ![]() Hamlisch won three Academy Awards in 1974: for the title song of the movie The Way We Were, another for the movie's score, and one for his adaptation of the music of ragtime great Scott Joplin for the Paul Newman/Robert Redford movie The Sting. His other scoring credits include The April Fools, the Woody Allen movies Take the Money and Run and Bananas, Kotch, Save the Tiger starring Jack Lemmon, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, and Starting Over. Hamlisch met movie producer Sam Spiegel at a party and was hired to write music for his 1968 movie The Swimmer starring Burt Lancaster. By the mid-'60s, his original songs were performed by Judy Garland and Lesley Gore. New York-born pianist/composer Marvin Hamlisch was admitted to Juilliard at the age of seven.
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