Sentences with phrase «of ragtime»

The annual Scott Joplin Festival, which celebrates composers of the ragtime era, happens annually in Sedalia as well.

Any links to free MP3s of ragtime?

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).

By the way: I may have caused a minor stir in the (extrmely narrow) world of ragtime music in «discovering» a previously unknown ragtime song by Joseph Lamb written under the pseudonym «Harry Moore» during the time Lamb was resident in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, circa 1901 - 1905.

The annual Scott Joplin Festival, which celebrates composers of the ragtime era, happens annually in Sedalia as well.

Josephine Baker grew up in the shantytowns of St. Louis, often considered the home of ragtime music.

This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster.

It incorporates the fictions and realities of the era of ragtime while it rags our fictions about it.

The author of Ragtime, City of God, and The Book of Daniel has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters — white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners.

Since it's an oddball story to begin with, Michael produces an equally oddball score, with elements of ragtime, old - fashioned jazz, and a touch of the recently rediscovered Klezmer style of music.

A festival of ragtime music.

Not exact matches

Winner of seven Oscars, including best picture, it also will forever be known for its use of the Scott Joplin piano ragtime piece «The Entertainer.»

The annual event combines smooth ragtime beats with delectable fare and a serene atmosphere to deliver one of Southern California's premiere musical affairs.

The live concert performance of historic and iconic ragtime music and the free BBQ is open to the entire community for no charge.

It also didn't hurt that in my first few months there I worked on Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, and the revival of one of my all - time favs Ragtime.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009.

(And yes, the gentleman is more than a bit player in «Ragtime;» his father is Mike Nichols, a director who's handled his share of iconic rom - coms — «Working Girl,» «Heartburn,» «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,» that sort of thing.)

Days of Heaven is, of course, exactly that, and Malick's film now seems like a peak moment in a tendency that began with Coppola's Godfather films and Chinatown and saw its final flowering with Ragtime, True Confessions, and Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, where nostalgia reaches a frozen end point.

«I wanted story, structure,» Milos said about his film adaptations of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and Peter Shaffer's theatrical bonfire Amadeus.

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.

Ragtime Gals» «Sexual Healing»: Is this the least sexy version of «Sexual Healing» ever?

Special midsection on art direction, Stephen Schiff on modern women in film, 1981 film in review, book reviews, David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Hollywood's epic histories of American radicals in Ragtime and Reds, Peter Greenaway, Jean Eustache, Jon Jost

The information about Ragtime shown above was first featured in «The BookBrowse Review» - BookBrowse's online - magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high - profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

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 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.

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.

Ragtime was named one of the 100 best English - language novels of the twentieth century by the editorial board of the Modern Library and was adapted into a successful Broadway musical in 1998.

Written in the spirit of E.L Doctorow's Ragtime, Gold's expansive novel attempts to dissect and fuse together the birth of Hollywood, the escalating events leading to the Great War, and the ascendancy of American capitalism, using a vast array of characters both real and fictional.

From one of the corgis I still had, I bred Ch Alexander's Ragtime.

Come for the gorgeous bygone ragtime jazz, Porkrind's shop and an evil carrot; stay for the thrill of defeating a boss you've spent hours attempting.

1st Prize - A Typical Space Game by AFP (University of Huddersfield) 2nd Prize - Push by Josh Pollard (Leeds Met University) 3rd Prize - Ragtime Racing by Ragtime Racing (Sheffield Hallam University)

It has a ragtime sound full of upbeat pianos and sets off the game excellently.

Game Pick: «Continuity» (Ragtime Games, browser) «Continuity is a puzzle platformer in which you have to arrange pieces of a level while playing to reach the key that will unlock the exit door.

While the game was scored for solo piano, (45 minutes of silent movie, ragtime - ish, old fashioned piano music,) the material itself struck me as being pretty malleable.

There's also a great soundtrack here, featuring hours of original jazz, ragtime and big band style music that serves to push you even deeper into the retro world.

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.

Screenings of the classic film «Ragtime» (1981) at 8 p.m. Free admission.

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I'm much more fond of opera than ragtime.

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There was a match to a 20 February 1924 address to the Empire Club of Canada by Canadian ragtime / jazz composer Geoffrey O'Hara under the title «Jazz — Whence?

The best online site for public domain sheet music, a lot of which is ragtime, is the Sheet Music Consortium at:

I have been quite silent as a SLAW poster due to research I am conducting on early Canadian ragtime sheet music (circa 1899 - 1920) and have been trying to assess the possible public domain status of several pieces of sheet music.

On holiday, in the Carolinas this last Spring, we found an ice cream parlour with a player piano — which I am delighted to say, played (amongst other things) a ragtime version of two of Elvis's hits!

I have many memories of my Grandpa and her sitting and playing hymns and ragtime... thanks for bringing those memories back for a short time!