As radical as rock & roll was when it first emerged in America, ragtime seemed childish to many at first, a fad that would fade quickly. Others found it threatening, and quirte possibly dangerous. To ...

TJ Muller takes care of Scott Joplin's piano at the Scott Joplin House, in St. Louis, Mo. The music known as ragtime first swept the nation more than 100 years ago. Missouri, known as the heartland of ...

Ragtime, a distinctly American musical genre that was very much in vogue in the early 20th Century, is experiencing the beginnings of a renaissance thanks to the man who’s the subject of this week’s ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...

For a few reasons, Gaptime was a perfect starting point for the 14th annual Celebration of the Arts (COTA) jazz fest, which began Thursday evening and continues today and tomorrow at several venues in ...

"Ragtime," the Tony-award winning musical that is the cornerstone of St. David's Episcopal Church's 2015 Celebration of the Arts, is a community-wide production with a diverse group of actors, ...