wakaba314 says:

07-22-2008

His songs make me feel so happy, they're beautiful! I always feel like dancing when I hear them... :)

retepjapan says:

06-23-2008

Agreed, karynsong. I especially wish they played "Paragon Rag", "Fig Leaf Rag" and "Euphonic Sounds".

karynsong says:

06-13-2008

Joshua Rifkin is my absolute favorite interperator of Scott Joplin rags. I was fortunate to see him perform twice in Irvine, CA...front row. He is just as good in person as in the studio...no flaws. Perfection. Sometimes I listen to his CDs all day long. I wish Pandora would play ALL the selections on ALL his albums instead of just a few on this one. They are ALL magnificent. :D

drama_tic says:

06-10-2008

Having not read below, I didn't touch on a couple things which have been alluded to. There was a biographical film about Joplin - maybe a t.v. film - about 30 years ago. (Am I dating myself?) It answered a number of preciously "untouched" questions. Don't know how accurate the history was.
Also Joplin has a heavy influence in Gershwin's music, and vice versa. Just listen and you'll hear it yourself.
Good to get in on this forum!

drama_tic says:

edited on 06-10-2008

Joplin set the standart for ragtime (ragged time) piano in his own time. Now we are listening to everyone from the greats of another century to our own "new" great rag piano artists. But no one will ever replace or compare to the great Scott Joplin. It is too bad he died so young while he still had so much music inside which will never be heard.

retepjapan says:

05-30-2008

Pandora seems to have a surprisingly scant repretoire of Joplin's music...

retepjapan says:

02-15-2008

Well... he did compose Treemonisha. . . and I was more refering to jazz and other types of popular music.

kbeebf109 says:

02-12-2008

I too am surprised there is no biographical information on Scott Joplin, where is it mentioned that he contributed to the opera at the turn of the 20th century?

lkcgm says:

02-11-2008

Scott Joplin was introducted to me in the movie "The Sting". The rhythm immediately was a hit with us. I have loved his sound ever since - happy music!!

retepjapan says:

01-13-2008

I am greatly surprised Joplin gets no biography on Pandora. He was the greatest ragtime composer of all time and had a subsequent influence on later musical genres in America.