A special Pulitzer Prize was given posthumously Monday to America's "King of Ragtime," Scott Joplin for the music he composed ...

At a crossroads in life and music, the ragtime artist produced an intimate, melancholic and introspective waltz.

New Orleanians will be getting a sampling of that history-making concert this Sunday afternoon when Dowling’s show, titled “Great Scott!” will feature roughly half of the Joplin piano ...

The playing on the 1916 roll in question ... What remains is the music he wrote and perhaps the traces of Scott Joplin's hands on the keys of a player piano.

Scott, the second of six children, grew up with music in the household. Aged seven he started playing the piano, taking lessons from Julius Weiss, a German music teacher who lived in Joplin’s hometown ...

By Seth Colter Walls Not long before his death in 1917, Scott Joplin predicted that he ... connected to the original material. Playing ragtime on the piano is hard. So this was also a chance ...

I must have been 7 or 8 when I first heard Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer ... Like pretty much every other piano student in America, I set about learning how to play "The Entertainer." ...

The Texarkana Museum has in its Joplin exhibit the two-volume "Collected Works of Scott Joplin" published ... transcriptions of Joplin's playing from original piano rolls. In observance of ...