Thanks for joining me here, and please enjoy. In 1899 Scott Joplin wrote one of his earliest and most successful ragtime compositions Maple Leaf Rag, which is named in to pay homage to the Maple Leaf. The piece was initially instrumental and sold as sheet music ( over1million copies) with royalties of. Now you know a little about why this is my song of the day for today. American Songbook In 1899 Scott Joplin wrote one of his earliest and most successful ragtime compositions 'Maple Leaf Rag', which is named in to pay homage to the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, MO. It was apart of a short life’s work that earned Joplin the title, King of Ragtime. Catalog number: C 872 C Notes The recording on the other side of this disc: Your Mother. The piece became the first ragtime hit and is likely one of the most recognizable in the genre. Maple Leaf Rag - Ragtime Piano at Disneyland Kristen Mosca 71.1K subscribers Subscribe 12K 1.4M views 10 years ago I went back and did this again.
One in particular that I liked and put through the Shazam app was today’s selection, “Maple Leaf Rag.” It’s a joyous piece that makes one want to get up and “dance those troubles away.” Several days ago, while I was listening to a YouTube video for a song post I was working on, the autoplay function cued up a medley of Joplin tunes. The soundtrack featured piano tunes by Scott Joplin (c1868-1917), a Black American composer and pianist who earned fame for his “rags.” “The Entertainer” is one such piece that appeared on the film soundtrack and often played on popular AM radio stations, which at the time typically broadcast only contemporary music. The emergence of mature ragtime is usually dated to 1897, the year in which several important early rags (musical compositions in ragtime) were published. The straightforward harmonies of many ragtime compositions. The Sting was a huge hit, and I remember that it ignited tremendous public interest in ragtime music. This arrangement of Scott Joplins popular Maple Leaf Rag, by Willi Maerz, is two pedal harps.
George Roy Hill was director for the film and no stranger to the duo: he also directed Newman and Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Released on Christmas Day in 1973, the film The Sting starred American actors Paul Newman (1925-2008) and Robert Redford as a pair of grifters who join forces to pull a complicated con job on a mob boss played by British actor, playwright and novelist Robert Shaw (1927-1978).
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