Looking up at a grand piano on the concert hall stage, the third grade students who filed into Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Performing Arts Center on Tuesday weren't sure if they were allowed ...
What was it like to live in the good old days of ragtime? Max Morath gives audiences a flavor of the era during his ragtime piano performances — and mostly, he says, those good old days were a nice ...
“IF I’D KNOWN I was gonna live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself,” Eubie Blake remarked while celebrating his 100th birthday. Sadly, if he hadn’t lived until he was 100, James Herbert ...
Westworld is back, in all its maddening complexity. After only one season, the show has become notorious for the deep-cut references and clever Easter eggs hidden within cryptic dialogue, mysterious ...
The life-altering moment for Mark Nuismer occurred 30 years ago when the teenager heard someone play "Maple Leaf Rag" at his Salt Lake City high school. "It was so hard, I thought I'd never be able to ...
Strolling up Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland, one can’t help but hear the sounds of ragtime music drifting from the Refreshment Corner where there sits a pianist tinkling the ivories on one of the ...
Johnny Maddox, a legendary ragtime pianist who was a mainstay at the Diamond Belle Saloon for 16 years, died Tuesday in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 91. Maddox had an illustrious career, first taking ...
Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...