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    Treemonisha (1911) is an opera by American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. It is sometimes referred to as a "ragtime opera", though Joplin did not refer...
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    1973 film The Sting, which featured several of Joplin's compositions. Treemonisha, his second opera, was produced in 1972 and in 1976 Joplin was awarded...
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  • opera Treemonisha. Berlin and other music historians, along with Joplin's widow, have pointed to similarities between the story of Treemonisha and Joplin's...
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    Mondi, Spoleto, Italy, July 9, 1972. Broadway debut: Treemonisha in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha (Gunther Schuller, conductor), (Wednesday and Saturday...
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    American composers like George Gershwin (Porgy and Bess), Scott Joplin (Treemonisha), Leonard Bernstein (Candide), Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and...
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    the Houston Grand Opera's second production of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha. They had produced it first in 1976. After the opera was rediscovered...
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    synthesizing the worlds of ragtime and opera, to which end the opera Treemonisha was written. However, its first performance, poorly staged with Joplin...
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  • Festival and on Broadway, where he was set designer for Scott Joplin's Treemonisha in 1975. In 1976, Holby began choreographing for opera companies, first...
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    the New York Public Library; the first full staging of Joplin's opera Treemonisha; and a performance of period orchestrations of Joplin's music by a student...
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    Paragon Ragtime Orchestra premiered their version of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha at the Stern Grove Festival, the oldest festival of its kind in the United...
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  • Don't Know". It was also used in the song "I Got My Mojo Workin". In "Treemonisha" by Scott Joplin, Zodzetrick refers to himself as the goofer dus' man...
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  •  36 Alberto Jonás 1868 1943 Spanish Scott Joplin 1868 1917 American Treemonisha ragtime Frederic Lamond 1868 1948 Scottish Signe Lund 1868 1950 Norwegian...
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    1901 Bethena, 1905 The Ragtime Dance, 1906 Nonpareil, 1907 Solace, 1909 Treemonisha, 1911 Magnetic Rag, 1914 Blesh 1981, p. xxiii. Berlin 1994, pp. 52, 56...
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    from 1907 onward, Joplin was again busy working on his second opera, Treemonisha. Scholar Edward Berlin's research noted Joplin's readiness to leave his...
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  • She has been involved in a number of theatre productions including: Treemonisha (2020), playwright The Hallway (2015), playwright. Nowheresville Code...
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    Visitation. He also orchestrated Scott Joplin's only known surviving opera Treemonisha for the Houston Grand Opera's premiere production of this work in 1975...
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    tune." Joplin's widow claimed that, "after Scott had finished writing Treemonisha, and while he was showing it around, hoping to get it published, [Berlin]...
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    pianist Scott Joplin incorporated a barbershop quartet into his 1911 opera Treemonisha. The genre gradually faded into obscurity in the 1920s, although barbershop-style...
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    colored musician exponent of ragtime rhythms, was the author of the opera Treemonisha (1911). The following year, Horatio Parker premiered Mona, which passed...
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    Victor is a natural operatic soprano, also sang Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha, and performed at the 85th Academy Awards. While still in her studies...
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  • Peter sees and falls in love with a girl named Treemonisha Joplin (named for the opera Treemonisha by ragtime composer Scott Joplin). After introducing...
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    forward to 1911, where Scott Joplin's trailblazing ragtime-folk opera, Treemonisha, took center stage, adding a unique and vibrant chapter to the history...
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  • Co-operative System of Society Treatment of the enslaved in the United States Treemonisha Trenholm State Technical College Tresillo (rhythm) Triple oppression...
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    1975). "Treemonisha – Broadway Musical – Original". IBDB. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022. "Treemonisha (Broadway...
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  • Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Scott Joplin Treemonisha (Overture & Act 3 Aria) Orchestra: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra. Conductor:...
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    recording won the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, which comprises a variety of musical styles even though it is often...
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  • and performed on Broadway in the title role of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha. She served as professor of voice at the University of Maryland. National...
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    Wiz 1975 Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) Eagles 1976 Scott Joplin's Treemonisha Gunther Schuller, arr. 1976 Wanted: Live in Concert Richard Pryor 1978...
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  • Eugen d'Albert, 1911 Tosca, Puccini, 1900 La traviata, Verdi, 1853 Treemonisha, Joplin, 1911 Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1875 Tristan und Isolde...
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    directing the premiere full, posthumous production Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha in 1972, a joint production of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the...
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