Competitors try to put their own spin on the dazzling and difficult Rachtime, a blend of Rachmaninoff and ragtime.

Stephen Flaherty has written 17 shows including Lucky Stiff (Composer), Once On This Island (Composer), My Favorite Year (Composer), Ragtime (Composer), Patti LuPone: Matters of the Heart ...

Lilting melodies melt with dramatic intensity in the spirited production of “Ragtime” at the Goodspeed Opera House through June 15.

Those influences affect how they deliver their ragtime performance, he said. Rabushka said Scott Joplin, a Black composer who wrote “The Entertainer,” is the most famous ragtime composer.

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 ...

We continue our rebroadcast of our series on American Popular Song with a tribute to ragtime composer and performer Eubie Blake. He was born on February 7,1883 in Baltimore, Md. He wrote the songs ...

He contacted Maxine Schoyer, whose father, Wayne Allen, was Boone’s manager late in the ragtime artist’s life. Allen, who had a music store in Columbia, died in the 1950s. His daughter had ...

And I’m sure if these ragtime composers could somehow perceive what’s going on, they would be very humbled to think that 100 and some years later, people are still enamored with what they did.” ...