When I was little I loved Ragtime music. Now, I hadn't heard anything besides Scott Joplin and it helped I was born in 1974 -- the year the Sting came out and the last time Ragtime had any recent heyday.
Yesterday, something in Nina Rota's La Dolce Vita jogged my memory. Thanks to the power of the internet in less than a minute I was downloading and listening to my favorite ragtime music. And what sweet music to my ears it is. Of course I love the Maple Leaf Rag, but my favorite is a song 100 years old this year, called Solace, a Mexican Serende.
I am always so amazed at the connection that we have.... Last Wednesday, I was dancing to The Maple Leaf Rag. When you were little and would hear The Entertainer (on the radio), you would say "Daddy" because he used to play it on the piano when you were little.
Posted by: Portland Firefly | January 11, 2009 at 07:08 PM