Lamb (b Montclair, NJ, 1887, d Brooklyn, NY, 1960) is considered the greatest and, with Joplin and James Scott, completes the triumvirate of the genre's main composers. Clarke), commercialized by Tin Pan Alley, and exaggerated into exhibitionistic and technically extravagant novelty pieces by Mike Bernard, Zez Confrey, and others, including, in Canada, Willie Eckstein and his protégés Vera Guilaroff and Harry Thomas.ĭespite its black origins ragtime has had many white exponents, of whom Joseph F. In the years following, ragtime was played by such bands as that of John Philip Sousa (often under the direction of Herbert L. The proprietors were Will and Walker Williams who, according to legend, were said to have come from London, Ont, and to have named the club after the popular symbol of their homeland.) (The work was named after the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, Mo, where Joplin was working. Ragtime's leading figure is the composer-pianist Scott Joplin (1868-1917), and its most popular composition is his Maple Leaf Rag (1899). ![]() The genre proliferated in sheet-music form, the easiest pieces (or adaptations of more difficult works) receiving wide performance in North American and European parlours. Krell's Mississippi Rag (1897), which in fact was a cakewalk. Ragtime is dated generally from the first published piece called a 'rag' - William H. Elements of both fads, especially their characteristic syncopation, prepared the North American public for ragtime. Ragtime was preceded immediately by the 'cakewalk' dance craze in both black and white societies, and by such racist (but popular) 'coon-songs' as 'The Bully,' sung on US stages by May Irwin (1862-1938, a native of Whitby, Ont) and recorded on her Victor 78s of 1907. It takes its inspiration and unique character from the melodic and rhythmic vivacity of Afro-American folksongs and dances. In its strictest form, ragtime adheres to a composed score of four themes, each of 16 bars, syncopated in rhythm, and ordered AABBACCDD. The lecture is a lead-up to the two-day “Wine Country Ragtime Festival.” For more information, go to the festival website at genre of Afro-American origin, dating from the 1890s, popular until the late 1910s, and revived in the mid-20th century. Partridge will outline the life of this important American composer and perform several of Lamb’s most noted rags. One of the “big three” composers from Ragtime’s “Golden Age”, Lamb created beautiful, lyrical compositions that have remained favorites with performers and audiences for nearly 100 years. ![]() John Partridge, music director of the Wine Country Ragtime Festival, will discuss Lamb’s life and work illustrating his talk with live performances of some of Lamb’s greatest compositions. His ragtime compositions are lyrical and romantic and of such a high quality that he is now regarded as one of the greatest ragtime composers of that era. He was a young man from New Jersey who fell in love with the music of Scott Joplin and began writing rags of his own sometime around 1900. Most of the composers and performers from Ragtime’s “Golden Age” (1890 to 1920) were African-Americans from the Midwest. The presentation will kick-off the 2017 Wine Country Ragtime Festival. Local music scholar John Partridge will discuss ragtime legend, “Joseph Lamb – Romantic Ragtimer,” at 6 p.m.
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