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| Jun 26 20:56:09 UTC 2001 |
Thanks, Mickey.
I've recorded something that probably everyone reading this item
has heard and uploaded it to the website. It's Scott Joplin's
"The Entertainer", published in 1902. The piece didn't enjoy
large sales at the time but became a hit 70 years later when it
figured prominently in the soundtrack of the movie "The Sting".
There's no proof, but it's been speculated that Joplin originally
wrote the tune for a mandolin or banjo ensemble (such groups
were common at the time) and only later arranged and published
it as a piano solo. There's no proof of this, but the general
style of the piece and the fact that it is dedicated to "James
Brown's Mandolin Club" lend credence to the theory.
My performance of "The Entertainer" is at
http://jremmers.org/midi/entrtanr.mid
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