Louis World's Fair, and The Strenuous Life which celebrated the life of Teddy Roosevelt.
Starting out with the Queen City Cornet band, his first published works were songs like Please Say you Will . John Stark published one third of his works including Cascades which was performed at the St.Louis World's Fair, and The Strenuous Life which celebrated the life of Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt would reappear, along with Booker T Washington, in the opera Guest Of Honor , but it is for a certain style of piano music rarely exceeding 68 bars with names like: Roseleaf , Sunflower , and Maple Leaf , that he is best known. FTP identify this composer of rags like The Entertainer  and the opera Treemonisha .
Starting out with the Queen City Cornet band, his first published works were songs like
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