Composer of the Week - Scott Joplin (1867-1917) - The Ragtime Debate

Scott Joplin (1867-1917) 3/5. The Ragtime Debate Donald Macleod examines how America's critics and musical establishment responded to ragtime. Supporters claimed ragtime was 'the only original and characteristic music America has produced thus far', but the music was seen by some as a moral, intellectual and physical threat. Weeping Willow Scott Joplin (piano roll) Bethena (A concert waltz) Morten Gunnar Larsen (piano) Something Doing; Binks' Waltz Ralph Grierson (piano) The Southland Stingers George Sponhaltz (conductor) The Chrysanthemum; The Cascades Dick Hyman (piano) Superstition; Frolic of the Bears (Treemonisha, Act 2) Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra Morten Gunnar Larsen (director) Seim Songkor Leif Egil Vatnoy (conductor) Rosebud March Scott Kirby (piano) A Concert Waltz Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos) The Wasp Nest; The Rescue; We will rest awhile; Going home; Aunt Dinah has Blowed the Horn (Treemonisha, Act 2) Simon ...... Raymond Bazemore (bass) Cephus ...... Dwight Ransom (voice) Treemonisha ...... Carmen Balthrop (soprano) Remus ...... Curtis Rayam (tenor) Chorus and Orchestra of Houston Grand Opera Gunther Schuller (conductor).