Professor Elam

Tuesday Dec 6, 2011

We recently featured a story on the San Antonio Ragtime Society hosting Bryan Wright. 

I don't know if this link will work b but the WSJ featured a story on the first and only opera that 

Scott Joplin wrote. Joplin was black, a native of Texarkana, TX. He wrote the music specifically for the sort of orchestra that one would find in vaudeville theaters, not opera theaters, ie, for the average attendee not the up market type at operas at the time. 

This is an interesting historic piece on the development of American Music.