All You Need Is Love The Story of Popular Music All You Need Is Ragtime ( Part 3)
This Episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) showing what the cakewalk was really like. Also extracts from The Royal Ballet production based on Scott Joplins music, Elite Syncopations. Also extracts staged by the Houston Grand Opera of Joplins only surviving opera, Treemonisha. There is also rare early film of Irving Berlin (Alexanders Ragtime Band) as well as film of Joplins birthplace and of the madhouse where he died. Although reference is made
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