Scott Joplin’s lost opera “Treemonisha” premieres in Florida at the Dr. Phillips Center Credit: Courtesy photo Legendary American jazz and ragtime composer Scott Joplin’s lost opera Treemonisha is ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3321: Scott Joplin and Ragtime Episode: 3321 Scott Joplin persevered in creating Ragtime music as a black musician in post-Civil War America. Today, Joplin ...

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 ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

Before ragtime made him famous, Scott Joplin dreamed of something bigger - a full-scale opera that would tell the story of a young Black woman who lifts her community through knowledge. That opera was ...

Scott Joplin was raised in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Texas. During the late 1880s, he traveled the American South as a musician and in 1893 he went to Chicago for the World's ...

When “Treemonisha” takes the stage at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, it represents more than an evening’s entertainment. Opera Orlando is presenting the Florida premiere of this ...

(May 5, 1976) -- A special Pulitzer Prize was given posthumously Monday to America's "King of Ragtime," Scott Joplin for the music he composed throughout his career. The award to the Texarkana native ...

There was a huge weeping willow tree on my elementary school playground, I loved standing under it and imagining I was in a castle. What will you imagine while listening to Weeping Willow by Scott ...

TEXARKANA, Texas -- Texarkana native Scott Joplin, the King of ragtime exhibit and silent auction, is taking place at the Gallery at 1894 through Friday. Curator Carol Collins-Miles said the auction's ...