The syncopated cakewalking craze called ragtime was born just before the turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something ...

Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

OLD CITY (WPVI) -- On stage right now at the Arden Theatre Company in Old City is "Ragtime." It's the compelling story of the American experience at the turn of the 20th century. Action News had a ...

Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin’s song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its peak.

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 programs for public television in Denver ...

DULUTH — Max Morath, a practitioner and proponent of ragtime music who became a public television pioneer, died Monday morning at age 96. Max Morath, in a publicity photo from his years of national ...

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 ...

In 1984, Superior resident Tim Sandor traveled to a ragtime music festival in Toronto, Ontario. At the Detroit airport, flying out of Duluth, he met fellow enthusiast Yvonne Cloutier. Together they ...

Director Lear deBessonet’s revival of Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’ musical is set in an America with less certainty about the future.