Sentences with phrase «from ragtime»
From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World's Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters.
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From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World's Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction.
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It's not a tragedy, so the emotions it provoked were quite different from what I experienced in Ragtime.
He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009.
The tone is even spottier, careening from goofy animations of Ungerer's drawings scored to ragtime to bizarre insert photos of machine guns backed by military drumbeats to signify wartime occupation.
Blu - ray Highlight: Although it's appeared on previous editions, «The Art of the Sting» is an excellent three - part retrospective that features interviews with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and other cast and crew as they reflect back on making the film, including the choice to use ragtime music for the score, cast chemistry and anecdotes from the set.
Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
From one of the corgis I still had, I bred Ch Alexander's Ragtime.
Here, you can catch free shows every day at 6 p.m., in the Kennedy Center's Grand Foyer — from jazz ensembles and choirs, to ragtime acts and performances by talented area youth.
A delightful meeting of beautiful and provocative pieces offset by the Charlie Chaplin-esque Maple Leaf Ragtime by Scott Joplin that emmanates from a small room, where Appau Junior Boakye - Yiadom's playfully slapstick intermittant film plays.
David Lee is mentioned in the «ragtime» entry to the (online) The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada as being a lawyer from Dundas, Ontario, who has composed a number of rags published by his own company, Dun - Val Music as part of the ragtime revival (i.e., his rags were written in the 1970's).