![]() ![]() The heritage of this internationally respected event has now become part of our national musical culture as it celebrates The Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin’s most successful song in his lifetime.Ī clip of the Houston Grand Opera’s version of Treemonisha, performed in 1976.This year’s annual Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival will be the 33rd in a row and the 35th since the inaugural event in 1974. The major reason for Scott Joplin’s resurgent popularity in the 1970s was the box office hit The Sting starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Michael’s Cemetery. Image courtesy Gardens of Stone. Image courtesy Google Maps The grave of Scott Joplin at St. The last home of Scott Joplin at 163 West 131st Street in Harlem. Bryan Cather, interviewed in the show at the Scott Joplin House, pumps away at the player piano. Louis contains many piano rolls of Joplin compositions. The piano room downstairs at the Scott Joplin House in St. Joplin’s portrait hangs on the wall of the Scott Joplin House in St. A piano with, of course, Joplin music ready to be played. This is the front apartment, where Joplin may have boarded. Inside the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site in St. Sedalia’s former train station has been converted into a visitors center, with a museum that covers a lot of Ragtime, and Joplin, history. The Hotel Bothwell Looking up Ohio Avenue in downtown Sedalia. Sedalia’s mural dedicated to Scott Joplin. Downtown Sedalia at sunset, with the historic Hotel Bothwell, right. Inside Maple Leaf Park Maple Leaf Park contains a timeline of Joplin, the “Maple Leaf Rag” and the club. Looking into Maple Leaf Park, on the site of the historic club. ![]() Louis, Missouri: The historic marker outside the site of the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, Missouri. Here are Reginald Robinson and Richard Dowling performing Scott Joplin: New York Public Library The Entertainer published 1902/New York Public Library Richard Dowling who performed his album The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin at Carnegie Hall on the 100th anniversary of Joplin’s birth Robinson, jazz and ragtime pianist and educator Berlin, ragtime scholor and author of King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era Bryan Cather from the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site and the organization Friends of Scott Joplin Kathleen Boswell of the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival We’d like to thank the following guests for participating in this week’s show: We greatly appreciate our listeners and readers and thank you for joining us on this journey so far. Check them out and consider being a sponsor.Īnd join us for the next episode of the Bowery Boys Movie Club, an exclusive podcast provided to our supporters on Patreon. If you’d like to help out, there are five different pledge levels (and with clever names too - Mannahatta, New Amsterdam, Five Points, Gilded Age, Jazz Age and Empire State). Please visit our page on Patreon and watch a short video of us recording the show and talking about our expansion plans. We are now a member of Patreon, a patronage platform where you can support your favorite content creators for as little as a $1 a month. We’re also looking to improve the show in other ways and expand in other ways as well - through publishing, social media, live events and other forms of media. We are now producing a new Bowery Boys podcast every other week. ![]() ![]() The Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast is brought to you …. Louis, and interview a range of Ragtime experts to help us understand the mystery of Joplin’s forgotten years in New York City. In today’s music-packed show, we travel to Missouri, stopping by Sedalia and St. He remained nearly forgotten and buried in a communal grave in Queens, until a resurgence of interest in ragtime music in the 1970s. And yet, he died a decade later, forgotten by the public. Scott Joplin, the “King of Ragtime”, moved to New York in 1907, at the height of his fame. PODCAST How did one of the greatest composers of the 20th century end up buried in Queens in a pauper’s grave? ![]()
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