When he was 17, Adam Souza got the OK from his mother to leave his hometown of Killingworth and drive with friends to New Haven so they could take the train to New York City to see a Broadway matinee.

BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

As radical as rock & roll was when it first emerged in America, ragtime seemed childish to many at first, a fad that would fade quickly. Others found it threatening, and quirte possibly dangerous. To ...

Many found the music offensive, the dancing objectionable, and the popularity of both with young people verging on a mental ...

“Ragtime,” which opened Friday night at the NorShor, is one of the most dramatic musicals you will ever see, filled with passionate characters and powerful songs, performed by a stellar cast equal to ...

Ragtime music, with its syncopated or "ragged" rhythms, is considered by many observers to be the first purely American form of popular music. Drawing on a diversity of styles, ragtime emerged from ...

If I’m being honest, I haven’t been in the musical theater scene for a while. I did my fair share of shows in high school, I’ve gone to one or two Muny performances in my lifetime, but I have never ...