It’s been about a century since ragtime music’s 20-year reign as America’s primary form of popular entertainment came to an end. But down through the decades, ragtime’s story has continued to be told ...

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra will be at the 1891 King Opera House in Van Buren Sept. 16 to play the music that accompanies three silent films -- plus the intro, intermission and outro of an evening ...

Ragtime became America’s pop music at the turn of the 20 th century, and the work of composers like Scott Joplin still influence the jazz and second line music we hear today. The Paragon Ragtime ...

In the post-Civil War era, the cruel breath of slavery and the aborted plan of Reconstruction still hung over the American South. But in the Joplin home, banjo and fiddle music filled the family’s ...

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin is back, this time in concert at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, in Michigan. We hear them play Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. Scott Joplin's Paragon Rag makes a ...

When Scott Joplin’s father left the North Carolina plantation where he had been born a slave, there was one thing he wanted to hold on to: the echoes of the Negro spirituals he had heard in the fields ...