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Marvin Hamlisch lightly adapted and orchestrated Joplin's music for the 1973 film The Sting, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation on April 2, 1974. [11] His version of "The Entertainer" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 18, 1974, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] prompting The New York Times to write, "the whole ...
Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow .
A list of ragtime composers, including one or more famous or characteristic compositions. ... A New Dictionary of Music. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin ...
While the word ragtime was first known to be used in 1896, the term probably originates in the dance events hosted by plantation slaves known as “rags”. [4] The first recorded use of the term ragtime was by vaudeville musician Ben Harney who in 1896 used it to describe the piano music he played (which he had extracted from banjo and fiddle players).
Pages in category "Ragtime films" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alexander's Ragtime Band ...
Joplin composes ragtime music. One day his "Maple Leaf Rag" is heard by John Stark, a publisher of sheet music in Sedalia, Missouri and later St. Louis, Missouri. Stark is impressed, buys the rights to the composition and sells it, with Joplin sharing some of the profits. Joplin's new songs also achieve a great popularity.
In doing so, he created an exciting and novel fusion of ragtime, black sacred music, marching-band music, and rural blues. He rearranged the typical New Orleans dance band of the time to better accommodate the blues: string instruments became the rhythm section, and the front-line instruments were clarinets, trombones, and Bolden's cornet.
Timothy Brock (born 1963) – new music for silent films Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Faust', Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis; Michael Brook (born 1951) – An Inconvenient Truth, Into the Wild; Eric Brosius – System Shock 2, Thief: The Dark Project, Guitar Hero; Dirk Brossé (born 1960) – Daens, When the Light Comes, A Peasant's Psalm