BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...

Scott Joplin House State Historic Site in St. Louis is celebrating its 15th anniversary by presenting a lecture and concert series entitled “Ragtime, Rhythm and Roots: St. Louis Music Comes Home.” The ...

The four girls walked into the band room at Howard County's Reservoir High School as though they were any modern-day teenagers strolling through the mall: Their hair was tied up in sloppy ponytails, ...

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 ...

Lincoln Center Theater has announced today that incoming Artistic Director Lear deBessonet’s inaugural season will open with a new production of her acclaimed New York City Center Gala revival of ...

Director Lear deBessonet has chosen wisely in the first production of her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, resurrecting the grand, however imperfect musical Ragtime, ...

2010 Tony Awards Best Direction of a Musical Marcia Milgrom Dodge 2010 Tony Awards Best Lighting Design of a Musical Donald Holder 2010 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a ...

The Devil Makes Three doesn't have a drummer, but the band doesn't need one. Cooper McBean's percussive banjo accents and Lucia Turino's forceful slaps on her bass supply more than enough rhythm.

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 ...

2010 Tony Awards Best Costume Design of a Musical Santo Loquasto 2010 Tony Awards Best Direction of a Musical Marcia Milgrom Dodge 2010 Tony Awards Best Lighting Design of a Musical Donald Holder 2010 ...