I've been looking through the dictionary ♪
For a word that's always running through my mind.
Though I love the name of brother, I was looking for another
And I must confess that word I cannot find
Can it be that all its glories are forgotten,
And it's buried with the language of the Greek?
If it is 'twill ever linger in my memory
As the first word that I heard my daddy Speak...
♫ Saloon, Saloon, Saloon ♫ ,
It runs through my brain like a tune.
I don't like café, And I hate cabaret, But just mention saloon and my cares fade away.
For it brings back a fond recollection of a little old low ceiling room.
With a bar, and a rail, and a dime, and a pail. Saloon, saloon, saloon. #NowPlaying#NSR Max Morath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjiadNmF2F0 #Ragtime#Music
I can picture swinging doors wide open.
I can almost see the sawdust on the floor.
And I dream of pals and cronies drinking highballs, steins and ponies,
I can see the name of "Ehret*" on the door;
But the free lunch counter now is but a memory,
It has vanished with the joys we used to know,
Never more we'll hear that old familiar parting -
Just one drink, boys, just one more before we go. #Ragtime#Music#Lyrics
Saloon, Saloon, Saloon. Have you been forgotten so soon.
You nestled so sweet in that little side street, so respected, protected by cops on the beat.
Since you've left us the world seems in darkness, like a cloud passing over the moon.
No more joys in my life, no more lies to my wife. Saloon, saloon, saloon.
Someone here was giving examples of cultural appropriation and like half of it was #Jewish#Swing musicians. Denying the influence of #klezmer on #Jazz is almost as bad as denying the influence of #blues and #ragtime... But I guess that that would be considered an embarrassment, like a problematic fave from an author's youth, or an ill-considered early collaboration...
They'll edit us out of #American cultural history just like they did from Poland to Iraq. Nu... Nothing is new under the sun.
The 2023-20234 season of Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia will feature no less than six musicals and related seminars and streaming events. The line up includes:...
Someone out there on the internet found the original booklet that came with the original Nintendo system version of 'Tetris' and, hold on to your hats people, the blocks have names.
THE BLOCKS HAVE NAMES!
Jazztodon artist of the week: Scott Joplin! How would jazz have been different without his early influence of syncopation, fusion of classical forms and piano techniques with the dance music of the day, and his proto-swing? Plus, top-quality regtime is just beautiful and entertaining music by any standard. Here's one of his gorgeous pieces that you may not have heard, "Solace."
I don’t “compose music” so much as “write songs.”
what I write mostly fall into the genres #HotJass, #hokum, and #novelty. but I wander about in styles that would probably be accurately described as #folk and occasionally #ragtime raises its syncopated head.
mostly I try to live by Duke Ellington’s theory that there’s only 2 kinds of music, good music and bad music. hell with genres, I just try to write good music. sometimes I succeed.
Ragtime, The Bridges of Madison County, Hair and other musicals in Virginia's Signature Theatre's 2023-2024 season (www.sigtheatre.org)
The 2023-20234 season of Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia will feature no less than six musicals and related seminars and streaming events. The line up includes:...
Producer Garth Drabinsky Appeals Antitrust Lawsuit Against Actors' Equity Association (www.broadwayworld.com)
Producer Garth Drabinsky has appealed the dismissal of his antitrust lawsuit against Actors' Equity Association....