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...people with funny hats and striped sleeves." That was several months ago, and since then Ostlere has become a rags buff. She had an opportunity to indulge her new musical interest by doing the research for this week's Music section story on the late composer Scott Joplin...
...still teaches ballet in her spare time. Independently, the two discovered-and became part of-the ragtime revival. Jones borrowed two unpublished volumes of Joplin's works and tried them on his piano for six hours straight, developing a sore left wrist from Joplin's thumping bass beat-and much affection for the tunes...
Ostlere, meanwhile, set out to learn what the old ragtime dances were like. In a Harlem retirement home, she found 89-year-old Ida Forsyne Hubbard, a popular dancer at the turn of the century who had known Joplin and performed to his music. With Jones at,.the piano and Ostlere on the boards, the old trouper instructed both in the rhythm and techniques of ragtime. Says Jones: "She conducted me, forced me to play it as she remembered Joplin. With a nod and her voice, she taught me what Joplin himself sounded like." She also taught Ostlere dances like...
...wait. It is opera, or can be. Back in 1911, Scott Joplin, the self-styled King of Ragtime, composed an opera called Treemonisha. It was one of the few early attempts at an opera by an American black composer, and it drew intriguingly on the musical comedy styles of the day, including ragtime. Neither distinction was enough to get it produced. For 60 years the work gathered dust on library shelves. Last week, at Atlanta's Memorial Arts Center, Treemonisha finally made it to the stage. It turned out to be of far more than historical interest. Despite...
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