Compact Discoveries 167: More Scott Joplin Variations
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:58:00
Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman brings you versions of Sun Flower Slow Drag, The Cascades, Sugar Cane Rag, The Chrysanthemum, Heliotrope Bouquet, and Elite Syncopations. Performers include the Southland Stingers, Itzhak Perlman, André Previn, Richard Glazier, Joshua Rifkin, the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Benjamin Loeb, and John Arpin.
This program should only be used by stations which first carry Compact Discoveries 166: "Variations on Scott Joplin Rags." However, program 166 can be used without broadcasting this follow-up show.
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Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman brings you versions of Sun Flower Slow Drag, The Cascades, Sugar Cane Rag, The Chrysanthemum, Heliotrope Bouquet, and Elite Syncopations. Performers include the Southland Stingers, Itzhak Perlman, André Previn, Richard Glazier, Joshua Rifkin, the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Benjamin Loeb, and John Arpin.
This program should only be used by stations which first carry Compact Discoveries 166: "Variations on Scott Joplin Rags." However, program 166 can be used without broadcasting this follow-up show.
Broadcast History
This is the world premiere.
Transcript
Program 167
"More Scott Joplin Variations"
MUSIC: Scott Joplin: Sun Flower Slow Drag performed by the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble conducted by Gunther Schuller [EMI/Angel/Musical Heritage Society 5185857, excerpted from track 2] [under the following]
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman. The last hour of this program was devoted to “Variations on Scott Joplin Rags.” That consisted of only four of this African-American composer’s delightful, energetic pieces, since I played different versions with different orchestrations of each of those pieces.
Well, stay with me for this next hour and I’ll continue where I left off. I’m going to announce the name of each piece and the performers, but nothing else, really, in an effort to get 14 different interpretations of 6 different delightful Scott Joplin tunes to your ears before time runs out...
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