Magnetic Rag - Scott Joplin 

Thank you for NOT playing this one too fast. This is one of my favorites, and you got it just right.

A girl playing ragtime! First time I see this. Magnetic ragnis one of my favourite!

I haven't played piano in a long time. When i had an upright, I loved taking it apart and opening it up. I just felt the musical vibrations flow through me.

Scott Joplin - "The king of ragtime" Kristen Mosca - "The queen of raftime"

One of the best piano rags I've heard. Value the great knowing when to go ahead and when to slow down. so perfect!

Scott Joplin is a genius and it makes me really happy to see people still discovering and playing his stuff after all these years. You're awesome, keep it up.

This feels like a hero's journey in a foreign land as they find their way back home.

just amazing how mr. joplin could put these notes together into such beauty. can't get the melody out of my head, and frankly i don't want to.

My favorite of Scott Joplin's rags - very nice! I love the right hand trickery at the end of the first theme, so fun to play.

First there's the learning, then the memorising, then the playing. Your rag game is excellent

This is one of the best performances I have heard of Magnetic rag! Wow You've really got that spirit!

I forgot how haunting this is.... so many corners in it. I don’t play piano but it seems like a handful. Tears at the end. Thank you so much.

Crisp. Precise. Beautiful

Beautiful! And a good tempo too. My aunt passed away last night, and she would play this for me upon request. Thanks for letting me fell that great feeling again.

It's nice knowing I am not the only one my age who likes ragtime and especially Scott Joplin. Super duper job Kristen

This piece drives the point home of Scott Joplin's genius. It's only 5 minutes, but it's a tour de force of melodies and harmonies. I'm awed by it... (but I may be a musical simpleton). You do a terrific job at it, your rendition is the most appealing to me of all I've heard, playing this piece.

Form across the pond tis old jazzer and lover of Joplin and your playing sends yet more thanks and praise! Rob

Beautiful technique, perfect tempo! You make this rag come alive, not a boring insipid performance! I'd love to hear you play the "Grizzly Bear Rag". This ragtime is familiar music, as I collect old pre-1912 65-note piano rolls.

Nicely played, you're a dream come true. I wish life gives you more talent and wisdom to continue being such a beautiful woman.

With every note you honor Mr. Townsend. I've been blessed with some amazing teachers over the years and I remain grateful to them as well. Keep playing! :-)

Sono stata solo una pianista classica e per me esistevano solo Chopin, Bach, e Beethoven, fino a quando non ho scoperto i tuoi video, ora adoro Scott Joplin, e mi sono appassionata di ragtime anch'io! Ora non passa giorno senza suonare ragtime, non potrei più vivere senza!

Joplin's music must be the most fun to play of all music. I learned and recorded The Entertainer and Weeping Willow on guitar.

Wow! I never heard this one before. That section in minor was a real eye opener. 👍🏻👍🏻

This was always one of my favorites

I’ve Listened To This Piece Many Times And Have To Say I Think It’s Just The Best. I Very Much Like How You Embellish The Phrase That First appears @ 2-10 , When It’s Repeated @ 2-51. It “Rolls Along”, Just Beautifully !. Great Stuff. Kind Regards From Scotland.

Great job on Joplin's best rag, a complex composition. Very nice to hear the "marching" tempo Joplin preferred for his work. Too fast and too slow are whack! :-)

Considering this is Scott Joplins last rag, it kinda fits as an ending theme card type of song and it's pretty scary.

Absolutely Splendid !. I like the little bits of “Sustain” , that keep the piece “Rolling Along” . Terrific Playing !. Many Thanks and Greetings From Scotland.

Just wanted to let you know that your fun ragtime covers and your Disneyland videos have been helping me through this rough patch in my life. I appreciate what you are doing. Keep it up!

Always one of my favorite Joplin tunes

The pianist, Joshua Rifkin, would be proud of this performance. Magnetic Rag is among my favourite Joplin rags! As are Elite Syncopations, Paragon Rag and Solace. Great stuff. Well done.

Absolutely the best job of Magnetic Rag I’ve heard!! Very well done. It’s a very tricky piece near the end and you mastered it well. Great playing. Keep it up.

Let me just say, you are awesome at what you do!! I love that you can play like this. ☺

This is probably my favorite Joplin Rag. A friend introduced me to Scott Joplin's rags when I was in college (in the early 70s!) Best antidepressant I know.

Love your playing, Kristen, but the dwarfs MUST return to the top of the piano!

Chills! I just got chills when this went into that beautiful third section. Such an odd and complex piece. There's both deep sadness and intense joy here, and that little descending coda figure is just the perfect ending. Thanks!!!

I could listen to you play all day, but then I'd never get anything done ...

I love those drastic tempo changes during the melancholy section.

Joshua Rifkin and Scott Joplin would be proud. You're amazing Kristen. I can't stop watching you play because to be able to see the songs I've listened to come back to life live is so tremendously satisfying. Very touching that you dedicated this performance to your favorite piano teacher.

"Not fast but in steady tempo". Excellent.

That transition back to the joyful melody at 4:12 is just hilarious.

Unbelievably great Kristen. This is a majestic piece of music and you dealt with it accordingly. What I like about your playing is that you follow Joplin's mantra of 'not playing too fast', the scourge of ragtime. Have you ever played Jelly Roll Morton? I'd be interested to hear you play 'The Crave' or 'King Porter Stomp'. Cheers, Paul.

When it comes to Kristen, with each new video I first LIKE it and then watch it! How about you?... :)

I love the counterpoint of the rhythm of this piece and you played it wonderfully! Stay strong!

Hey there. Just wanted to let you know that All your videos are fantastic. Even the odd little mistakes are great fun and much much better than any dull old perfect over-sanitised rendition anyway. Thank you for brightening up my life.even more!

Thank you. I like your interpretation of this tricky and thoroughly enjoyable rag. It's interesting (to me, anyway) how you vary tempos between strains and within strains. There's nothing wrong with this in concert, which is what this is, but remember that rags were written mostly as dance music. The pianists certainly did their best to one-up each other, but again that was "concert." The rags themselves were dances. A change of tempo is not problematic, but a change within a strain screws up dancers. Remember the description of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in "Ragtime": Club owners hired him, dancers required him. A delicate balance now, but you play beautifully, and listening to other videos, you obviously get it. Thank you. I'm an old fart who played starting back in the late '60s. That means nothing re: ragtime, just that I'm an old fart with arthritis.

Very nice. This rag for me represents Joplins life. I believe he wrote it near the end. The climax goes off to heaven...

I've loved this one for years. You do it just beautiful madam!!

This is my favorite interpretation

To have Lord Vinheteiro on your following list is really something. You are SPLENDID

Thanks again Kristen for a wonderful performance! This can cheer someone up anytime. Your command of Joplin's music is impressive. It's great to see the video because it shows how hard you have to practice and work to produce great music.

I love listening to/watching you play. You inspire and motivate me to play more!

Wonderfully played! That rag is such a constantly convoluted and twisted piece going from one phase to an other one. Nicely done!

Kristen is beautiful so as her beautiful rendition of any piano piece she plays.... Fantastic!

Another great performance, thanks Kristen!!

Incredible! I can't even imagine how long it takes to learn something like this!

The first time I've ever heard this piece and I admit to being a bit of a Joplin fan. Just goes to show there's always something different to hear.

Awesome work!!!

All day every day. I'm hooked on ragtime. I just bought my first Roland. Thank-you for your videos

Superb. One of my all time favorites.

Thank you for a great performance! I love this piece, it's so imaginative and it makes me feel so good. All the best.

I like this very much. Great playing, and one of S. Js. Best piano rags.

This one is just mesmerizing! The two or three little chromatic notes are soo nice

I can't find words to describe how wonderful your performances are 🙂

Just learned this rag, wish I could play it this well, love the little right hand embellishments on the repeats.

I love your playing. My daughter's great grandmother used to play like that. All the kids would say "Mawmaw, play that saloon music!"

Been on a ragtime bender. love your rendition!

My "soul" is HaPpY!!!! What a great tune!

One of my favorite rags by Joplin, great job with the tempo!

oooohh I'm learning this as well, I've only got through the first 2 sections (: also amazing rendition. 🙌

You have made me want to find my Scott Joplin book and try playing ragtime again. Beautiful

Wow ... I love your music and of course, I love all piano music ... I'm not sure why but I have a good ear for music, and yet I couldn't play the piano to save my life ... you definitely put your own style into playing the piano, so very nicely done ... I loved all the pieces you played as well ... thank you so much for sharing your video ... all the best!

Awesome, moving, beautiful!

k, listening to you play this song video a few years ago helped me thru some dark times. thx

absolutely brilliant as per usual !!! keep it up :)

Amazing! I'm currently learning this song too!! Getting started on the 3rd section :P

Your work is really amazing! I have never heard Ragtime so beautifully and at the same time so perfectly played! And you picked also my favourite pieces (for me" Frog legs " always was the hardest and I never could play Maple leaf rag so fast). I think Ragtime really deserves to be played like you do. Did you make a CD? It really inspires me to take up my own Ragtime playing, I stopped during my classical music studying at university. Ragtime was my first musical love. Thank you so much and best wishes!

It seems you choosed my favourite piano tracks and opened a new youtube channel. Thanks very much! :)

loved it!

I don't understand how you can be getting downvotes for this. You're a very skilled player.

Amazing, once again. Thanks.

You are an inspiration! Thank you!

You are amazing!! I've learned Maple Leaf and Felicity Rags and am currently working on Peacherine. You are an inspiration!

Awesome!! Great job Kristen!! :D

I had never heard this one before. Thanks for bringing it to us! Great as always :)

I watch and hear your videos over and over, and it will happen again 👍dazzled 👏

Dear Kristen; Love your music and I think you're just about ready to compose some of your own rags. Good Luck!

My favourite Joplin rag played so well by youngster! Good job!

I do love the Magnetic Rag.

Bravo, just great

Dude, I love how your hands are dancing all over the piano in all of your videos... Makes me want to learn the piano all the more... Keep on rocking the piano! :D

I just found your channel and marathoned a lot of your videos!

You get better with every upload.....wow!!! God bless Mr Townsend. R.I.P

You've smashed it again, well done Kristen! 😄😎👍🏻

I was going to ask about those Dwarves. Great music!

Beautiful !

This reminds me of Cooking Mama... I miss those days

Nice. Very nice.

Great job!!! All I can play is "Chop Sticks". I miss the Disney Dwarfs you had sitting on the piano. They were very cute.

Great! This is so hard to play. Congratulations on a great job!