Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

Johnny Maddox, a legendary ragtime pianist who was a mainstay at the Diamond Belle Saloon for 16 years, died Tuesday in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 91. Maddox had an illustrious career, first taking ...

Strolling up Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland, one can’t help but hear the sounds of ragtime music drifting from the Refreshment Corner where there sits a pianist tinkling the ivories on one of the ...

Pianist William McNally plays the 'Maple Leaf Rag' for students at Skyline Elementary School in Sedalia, Mo. Ragtime is big with the kids in Sedalia. One day this spring, about 100 of them cheered for ...

Bob Milne, master of ragtime and boogie-woogie piano, will return to Grace United Methodist at 3 p.m. Jan. 27 in a special Music at Grace concert. Milne started playing in symphony orchestras in the ...

To quote the recently deceased Max Morath, the pianist and television presenter who spent most of his 96 years keeping the sounds of ragtime in the people’s ears: “Ragtime . . . makes you think not ...

Westworld is back, in all its maddening complexity. After only one season, the show has become notorious for the deep-cut references and clever Easter eggs hidden within cryptic dialogue, mysterious ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...

When Richard Dowling was 9, the movie “The Sting” came out, with the famous Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack that included six ragtime songs composed by Scott Joplin. “I literally fell in love with ‘The ...