While Scott Joplin (1868-1917) is most noted for developing ragtime music, he also wrote music for ballet and opera. As Johann Strauss is to the waltz and John Philip Sousa is to the march, so is Scott Joplin to ragtime: its guru, chief champion, the...

As a pioneering African American composer of ragtime music, Scott Joplin took part in a musical revolution in America at the turn of the twentieth century and left an enduring mark on the musical culture of the country. Best known during his lifetime...

Scott Joplin (born November 24 1867 and died April 1 1917) was an American musician and composer of ragtime music. He remains the best-known ragtime figure and is regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime,[1] along with...

Sunhawk Corp offers 'Total Joplin: The Complete Works of Scott Joplin' as its first interactive music software production. Featuring a digital compilation of scores and recordings of music composed by Scott Joplin, it is recommended for music lovers, music students and pianists. It can...

I recall the beginnings of Edward Berlin's research on this new Scott Joplin biography. In 1988, I attended the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, the most concentrated gathering ever of world-class ragtime performers and historians. Berlin had assumed the responsibility of...

After more than 6,500 episodes of "The Price Is Right," it was Bob Barker's turn to "Come on down."House Speaker Rod Jetton and Barry Bennett, a former radio broadcaster who now works for Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, couldn't resist the opportunity to repeat the famed...

Keys has made it her business to defy people's expectations. She was a virtual unknown a little over a year ago. Then, with the release of her self-written Songs in A Minor, she shocked the industry by topping the charts and becoming an overnight success....