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After his mother's death, and one argument too many with his father about learning a trade, the boy left home for good at age 14 to become a honky-tonk pianist. It was the only trade he cared about. No doubt Joplin could play "ragged time," as it was first called because of its bouncing bass and syncopated right hand, as bumptiously as the next man. But by the time he began writing his rags down in the late 1890s, they had obviously become objects of care, even personal meaning...
Died. Ima Hogg, 93, spirited Houston oil heiress and arts patron whose benefactions to the Houston Symphony, which she helped to found in 1913 after abandoning a budding career as a concert pianist, and other cultural causes made her the doyenne of Lone Star society; of complications after a fall suffered while traveling in London...
When he put his mind to it, he was a brilliant pianist, but he usually composed his many operas, ballets, concertos, chamber music and 15 symphonies right on the page without reference to the keyboard. He claimed that he could write in a doghouse, as-officially, at least-he often did. Beyond his work, his enthusiasms were soccer and chess...
...different from everybody else, reclining on a European tour as frail aristocrats line up to beg for favors. He is the most powerful man in the world. Meanwhile, a black ragtime pianist, thought to be a Junatic, is holed up in J.P.'s library, ready to blow it up. He is holding all New York at ransom to correct a racial humiliation. He bombs fire stations, dominates the tabloids, and threatens to detonate the Morgan property if he is not avenged. As in Attica, a "representative" is sent in, Booker T.Washington, but the ragtime man is adamant...
...Modern jazz Quartet's pianist, John Lewis as well as Marian McPartland, will be performing tonight at Sanders Theatre. Lewis is past his prime, but at one time he was pretty innovative. Tickets are available through Holyoke Center ticket office at $3 and $4 a piece. The show starts...