His only surviving opera ends with "A Real Slow Drag" after the title character is rescued from the conjurer Zodzetrick.
His only surviving opera ends with "A Real Slow Drag" after the title character is rescued from the conjurer Zodzetrick. In the same year that he composed The Favorite and The Sycamore, he used a series of rising arpeggios to simulate the sound of a waterfall in his 1904 piece commissioned by the World's Fair, The Cascades. Awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Treemonisha, nearly all of his works, such as The Easy Winners and Elite Syncopations, include the warning "Not Fast". Repopularized in the 1970s by Marvin Hamlisch, who used his pieces for the score of The Sting, FTP, identify this American composer of The Entertainer and The Maple Leaf Rag known today as the "king of ragtime".
His only surviving opera ends with "A Real Slow Drag" after the title character is rescued from the conjurer Zodzetrick.
Scott {Joplin}