Syncopation was an element of music before ragtime, but Scott Joplin's compositions made it a part of popular music. joshrobin sat down with Rick Benjamin of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra to talk about syncopation and 'The King of Ragtime's' legacy.
Still, there was a glaring problem. The lone music to survive was a rehearsal book, with notes only for piano. That was more than a prior Joplin opera—its music has never been found.Anderson was tasked with translating what he believed Joplin would have wanted “Treemonisha” to sound like. He turned to operas performed by itinerant musicians of the era, especially in New Orleans. “We didn’t want to present anything that we hadn’t given our whole self to,” English-Robinson said.
There is no single answer why the adoration took decades. In the early 1970s, long after Joplin died in a pauper’s grave, his ragtime music resurfaced; pianist Joshua Rifkin’s “Scott Joplin: Piano Rags” climbed to the top of the charts. The New York Public Library published his collected works. And later that decade, the soundtrack for “The Sting,” with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, famously was replete with Joplin’s music.
Coretta Scott King was in the audience that Friday evening, and among other notables was Maynard Jackson, who the next year would be elected Atlanta’s first African American mayor. “The education aspect speaks to everybody because that’s a form of having a roadmap to advancement,” said Anderson. “My father used to tell me, ‘Son, if you want to succeed in life, you go to school.’”
Noting the language his own grandparents spoke, Brown added: “You know, you can’t dress it up and make it something that it is not for the sake of being politically correct for a contemporary audience. It was right for that time.”
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