The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra plays the syncopated sounds of silent films, vintage dance, and early musical theater, like the signature ragtime music of Scott Joplin in the overture to his masterpiece ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The recording is conducted by Keith Lockhart. Based on the 1975 novel by ...

At the turn of the 20th century, ragtime music was all the rage. It was music to dance to as well as music to pass on oral traditions. Created by recently freed Blacks who couldn’t then read or write ...

Ragtime music was big at the turn of the 20th century. The genre was popularized by African-American composer Scott Joplin, known in his day as "the king of ragtime." But there were many others, such ...

The ASCAP Foundation Children Will Listen program, which is designed to introduce the American Musical Theater to youngsters who might otherwise not have the opportunity to experience it, travels to ...

To quote the recently deceased Max Morath, the pianist and television presenter who spent most of his 96 years keeping the sounds of ragtime in the people’s ears: “Ragtime . . . makes you think not ...

NORMAL — The spiffy sounds of the “St. Louis Rag” by Tom Turpin are tap-tapping their way up to Normal this week. Isaac Cherry, 43, and Jerry Rabushka, 64, play ragtime music as Cherry & Jerry. The ...

Ragtime music is propulsive and infectious. It is sharp, direct and clear. It has sense, purpose and style. So does the Goodspeed Musicals‘ production of “Ragtime.” It’s an engrossing, involving and ...

There is only one thing missing from Lincoln Center Theater’s (LCT) superlative Broadway revival of the musical Ragtime: a ...