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The Entertainer (rag) " The Entertainer " is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. [1] It was sold first as sheet music by John Stark & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, [2] and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. [1] The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin ...
Marvin Hamlisch. Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and composer Richard Rodgers are the only people to have won those prizes and a Pulitzer Prize ("PEGOT").
Pulitzer Prize (posthumous, 1976) Signature. Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime ", [1] he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, [2] one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and ...
Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, [2] is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. [1] Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. [1] Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb. Ragtime pieces (often called "rags") are typically ...
Henry Mancini ( / mænˈsiːni / man-SEE-nee; born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) [1] was an Italian-American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, [2] [3] he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a ...
For the theatre, Addison wrote the music for John Osborne's plays The Entertainer (1957) and Luther (1961). He collaborated with John Cranko on a revue, "Cranks" in 1956. Although he wrote numerous classical compositions, Addison explained that "If you find you're good at something, as I was as a film composer, it's stupid to do anything else."
Maple Leaf Rag. The " Maple Leaf Rag " (copyright registered on September 18, 1899) [1] is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, becoming the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. It is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces. [2]
Genres. Jazz, classical, third stream. Occupation (s) President of the New England Conservatory. Instrument (s) French horn, flute. Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925 – June 21, 2015) [1] was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.