Come on an exciting “RAGTIME ROMP” in this thrilling afternoon program at a private home in the Givens Estates.   Pianist Daniel Weiser will perform about 20 different rags from composers including Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, George Gershwin, and more.  He will also perform some fun novelty rags including “Ragging the Scale,” “Russian Rag,” and Felix Arndt’s hilarious “Operatic Desecration Rag.”  Dr. Weiser will talk about the history of this exciting syncopated music as well as the profound social implications of its rise from black ghettos into white cities.  Take a trip back to the first twenty years of the 20th century when Ragtime was king!

Listen to Dan perform George Cobb’s Russian Rag, based on the Rachmaninoff Prelude in C Sharp Minor: