A Ragtime Feast: Forgotten Rag

A Ragtime Feast: Forgotten Rag

Track Listings

1. Possom & Taters

2. Queen Of Love

3. Tickled To Death

4. Just Ask Me Why

5. Why We Smile

6. A Tennessee Tantalizer

7. Cotton Bolls

8. Back To Life

9. Bowery Buck

10. Buffalo Rag

11. Harlem Rag

12. A Ragtime Nightmare

13. The Saint Louis Rag

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Pro-Culture Editions, Inc. is proud to present this Cd audio, first in our series of Ragtime's forgotten masterpieces. The artist performing these Rags, Miguel Pineda-Van Gelder, is well-known in Parisian music circles. Of Mexican-American origins, he studied Musicology at the Sorbonne, where he obtained his doctorate. His interpretation of these Ragtime tunes is based on extensive research in the field and can be taken as models for this musical genre so diversly rendered today.

Product Description
This cd audio is the first in our series dedicated to forgotten masterpieces of Ragtime and deals with the music of Charles Hunter & Tom Turpin.

In the case of the blind artist Charles Hunter of Tennessee, it captures the essence of "Rural Ragtime" piano and, in the case of Tom Turpin, that which evolved from Black Minstrelsy in Harlem. An interesting contrast for this illustration of Ragtime piano.

The very music of ragtime holds within it a key to understanding this entire period of American popular music and the culture that grew around it. Its syncopation is just one of the mysteries and fascinations that attract ragtime fans today. Slightly out of step, each note reflects the birth of modern electrical technology, the grammaphone in particular, always slightly out of step with reality. Far from being imperfect, this music is a technical challenge, equal to playing any contemporary classic for piano of the time, such as Rachmaninoff's works.

A Ragtime Feast: Forgotten Rag,Miguel Pineda-Van Gelder

A Ragtime Feast: Forgotten Rag

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