The amount of educational material in your videos is always worth its weight in gold; But personally, as a musically uneducated black american aspiring to learn theory and one day compose, I very much appreciate the level of in depth detail you’ve shown this genre regarding a black american. It’s genuinely means the world to any aspiring black composer. Thanks again. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have to watch this 10 more times. just to make SURE I get all the information!
Fantastic introduction to an underperformed and underrated composer. Just wanted to note that Joshua Rifkin's 1970 recording of some of Joplin's rags (and the fantastic concert waltz Bethena), which sold more than a million copies, is also credited with reviving interest in the genre. Funnily enough, Conlon Nancarrow was born in Texarkana, Arkansas; I wonder to what point his player piano pieces were influenced by his neighbor!
Really REALLY great video !!!...stupidly under appreciated in comments.... answered many serious questions about the form, historic sicial context and Joplin's genius I've had for over 3 decades. Thank you.
learning the context behind magnetic rag gave me a profound new level of appreciation for it. its a shame joplin wasnt able to continue his focus on his idea of proper ragtime evolution. also. these videos are amazing. theyre as timeless as the music they discuss. thank u for blessing us with these. and im sure the next few hundred years of music nerds feel the same way
1st published Ragtime piece before the name was invented seems to be DansesbCuhaijesv(Danzas?!Baile Cubanos) 1840, by 19th c. pianist &! composer superstar, Louis Moreau Gottschalk., now almost unknown,but still being recorded.
That half dollar story is bonkers. Thanks so much for all your love for the topic and engrossing presentation. Quite interesting to hear the magnetic rag, too.
Thank you for discussing such an important composer! And thank you for this video series in general, I just watched the episodes on Rachmaninoff, Boulez, and Frank Zappa and they're all so good and well put together. May I suggest looking to Astor Piazolla? You probably know of him already but just in case you don't: he combined classical composition and instruction with tango to create a whole new form of music, and it seems classical musicians (at least on RU-vid) love to play his works.
Absolutely love your channel CN! Learning so much. If possible, could you cover Domenico Scarlatti - Composer of 555 piano sonatas and within are gems that are quite forward thinking for the time. Thank you so much.
I wonder if Joplin would have been as upset as I was with the recording of Magnetic Rag you chose. I found its lack of fidelity to the score unnerving. That said, thank you for this wonderful video. I greatly appreciate it.
Very important parts of the history of Treemonisha Our left out of this video we're discovered before the 2011 recording of Treemonisha but for people to think that Treemomisha was a complete flop and Joplin just had one rehearsal and a hall In 1915 Joplin's folic of the bears was performed by full symphony orchestra in 1915 which is retitled dance of the bears for the occasion I'n,1916 Treemomisha was perform many times we know for sure in 2016 Joplin perform Treemonisha was performed many times with orchestra and costumes all this is in the book that goes along with the 2011 recording of Treemonisha on New World Records I notified these people 2 years but they still haven't fixed it in 2 years instead they're still haven't corrected the major errors in this video please correct or delete the video don't keep telling people false information then they keep repeating to other people
There's a piano pice by Maurice Ravel that sounds like a more modern version of a Scott Joplin Ragtime song. Can you please help me to remember what it is?
Very informative! I've been interested in knowing more about the history of ragtime bands. You mentioned that Joplin led a group early in his career, and it seems there were some popular ones as in the song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (although I'm not sure if that one is real or fictional). Early jazz bands would sometimes play songs with "rag" in the title so it seems there might have been some crossover in the early days of jazz.
Very Interesting! I would humbly request Lutoslawski, Walton, Primrose, Kodály, Ysaÿe, and Spectralism. Keep up the good work, looking forward to future videos!
Thanks! Unfortunately I'm only accepting five requests per viewer to keep the request pool manageable. Which five of these six would you like me to add?
I did Bridge a few years ago [ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dncq0SmiezY.html ]. Bliss has been duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html
Interesting-I've never actually heard his name pronounced. (People complain when I pronounce foreign names with an American accent, and now the opposite, lol)
Joseph Lamb I consider to be second only to Joplin as a ragtime composer. There were also quite a few women ragtime composers, and there's a good compilation album of some of their work that you can find online. Finally, I strongly recommend checking out William Bolcolm, a classical composer who wrote a number of rags that pay homage to the tradition while incorporating his own more modern style. (I haven't watched to the end yet so I apologize if any of these were mentioned).
Rick Benjamin conducter of the Paragon Orchestra discovered that Joplin actually performed both A. Guest of Honor and Treemonisha with orchestra many times the old rehearsal hall story is just a myth this new info is in the book of Benjamin's Full length Version of Treemonisha on new world records and even includes a picture of the first Treemonisha also An expert from Treemonisha Frolic of the Bears was performed at a synphony concert in 1915
Apart from the "opera" (that surely must have been a rather foolish decision), I often wonder what Joplin would have produced had he studied orchestration. The mind boggles! Thanks for yet another superb video.
I did an old, old video on Rautavaara [ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NgvQVD695kk.html ] but he might be due for an update. We'll see.
Either my e-mails aren't going out properly or my messages to you have been flagged as spam ... you may want to try thomaslittle@brandeis.edu if you can't find my messages from Sunday morning or today.
1:43 yes .. if a fire breaks out , the exit is always to the left .. and remember , no smoking in the theater ! (Wink wink) 13:29 the white city : a self indulgent and meaningless feat of architecture , meant as a prototype for what an ideal city would look like . It caused a fair bit of unrest in a country where the homeless and the poor were increasingly persecuted and criminalised , serving as a reminder of the cold detachment of the rich from society , of the over-romanticised and nostalgic neo-classical ideals of modern libertarian ideology
I have a very old Scriabin video that I plan on remaking some time soon-ish (I'm obliged to do doctoral apps first, obviously). And while my video on Rachmaninoff isn't up to today's production quality, it does indeed exist.
Cuts are a very common technique across RU-vid, and my goal is to deliver information as accurately as possible. In recent episodes, I've rigged up a teleprompter to combat this (as it cuts down editing time).
