Don’t Miss a Moment. Join 30,000 locals who stay current on Orlando news, culture, and events. Get Orlando Weekly’s free daily newsletter. Sign up Scott Joplin’s lost opera “Treemonisha” premieres in ...

(May 5, 1976) -- A special Pulitzer Prize was given posthumously Monday to America's "King of Ragtime," Scott Joplin for the music he composed throughout his career. The award to the Texarkana native ...

SEDALIA, Mo. (KCTV) - An annual summer music festival is set to return to Sedalia in 2025 as it honors the more than half-century-old legacy of Ragtime, where it all began. Scott Joplin Festival ...

Scott Joplin was raised in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Texas. During the late 1880s, he traveled the American South as a musician and in 1893 he went to Chicago for the World's ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3)—Sedalia, Missouri, will host the International Ragtime Festival next week (May 28-31). The festival celebrates the life of famous Missourian Scott Joplin. Joplin landed in ...

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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 ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

When “Treemonisha” takes the stage at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, it represents more than an evening’s entertainment. Opera Orlando is presenting the Florida premiere of this ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3321: Scott Joplin and Ragtime Episode: 3321 Scott Joplin persevered in creating Ragtime music as a black musician in post-Civil War America. Today, Joplin ...

When I first heard Scott Joplin’s “Bethena,” I was a college freshman and my friend Robert was playing it on the piano in a common room. The college’s century-old Steinway was appallingly out of tune, ...