DULUTH — As University of Minnesota Duluth students walked through their snowy campus this month, many were likely listening to one of the countless recordings of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas." ...
DULUTH — Max Morath, a practitioner and proponent of ragtime music who became a public television pioneer, died Monday morning at age 96. Max Morath, in a publicity photo from his years of national ...
Were it not for ragtime composer Scott Joplin, Tom McDermott may not have evolved into one of New Orleans’ most respected pianists. Growing up in St. Louis, McDermott had, by age 14, spent seven years ...
Ithaca, N.Y. — Hangar Theatre Company of Ithaca opened a buoyant and sweeping production of “Ragtime, The Musical,” for part of their 50th season, on Friday evening to a savvy, appreciative audience, ...
When I was very young and “forced” (because I did not understand at that age how great it would be to learn) to take piano lessons, those of us who took our lessons at that time in San Angelo became ...
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 ...
It's time to raise the roof at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church. After all, it's a special birthday occasion. The Manheim Township sanctuary has long been a haven for music, both sacred and ...