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Scott Joplin - The Entertainer 1902

Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and most influential hit, later being recognized as the quintessential rag. Joplin considered ragtime to be a form of classical music meant to be played in concert halls and largely disdained the performance of ragtime as honky tonk music most common in saloons. Treemonisha, his second opera, was produced in 1972 and in 1976 Joplin was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

"The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag, first sold as sheet music by John Stark & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. As one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached number 3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at number 1 on the easy listening chart in 1974. Thanks to the film and its score, Joplin's work became appreciated in both the popular and classical music worlds, becoming (in the words of music magazine Record World), the "classical phenomenon of the decade". The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it at number 10 on its "Songs of the Century" list.

"The Entertainer" received a total of 91,2% yes votes!

[soapkaars]

Alastor holding a little piano session and encounters an unexpected listener

(in fairness to Lucifer - if he didn’t want him to sleep inside the piano, he wouldn’t have it be so cool and dark inside, now would he?)

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Tiny Kitten Inadvertently Plays Part of 'The Entertainer' While Walking Across the Keys on a Piano

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Scott Joplin, “Pine Apple Rag,” 1908

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if tom scott and scott joplin had a baby it could be called tom joplin

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Joshua Rifkin - Maple Leaf Rag (1970) Scott Joplin from: "Scott Joplin: Piano Rags" (LP) AKA: "Piano Rags by Scott Joplin"

"Maple Leaf Rag" was Composed in 1899

Ragtime | Instrumental | Scott Joplin

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Personnel: Joshua Rifkin: Piano

Recorded: in New York City September, 1970

Released: November, 1970 Nonesuch Records

'… by giving artists like (Joshua) Rifkin the opportunity to put Joplin's music on disk Nonesuch Records "created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival." ' - Alan Rich, New York Magazine (1979)