This recording reintroduced Joplin's music to the public in the manner the composer had intended, not as a nostalgic stereotype but as serious, respectable music.

# The New York Public Library issued a two-volume collection of Joplin's music, thereby giving the stamp of approval of one of the nation's great institutions of learning.

# Gunther Schuller, president of the New England Conservatory of Music, led a student ensemble in a performance of period orchestrations of Joplin's music.

# Inspired by Schuller's recording, the producer of the movie The Sting had Marvin Hamlisch score Joplin's music for the film, thereby bringing Joplin to a mass, popular public.

* Selected snippets of Joplin's works, some appearing on the album and some not, provided linking music over the title cards that were used to introduce major scenes.

However, as Joplin's music came to be considered passé, such requests were few.

* The epigraph to E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime quotes Scott Joplin's instructions to those who play his music, " Do not play this piece fast.

In 1903 Stark issued a " Maple Leaf Rag Song ", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown.

On this record, Joplin's lyrics were noticeably more clever and playful than on Useful Music, with subject matter including the nature of popularity (" The Wonderful Ones "), the absurdity of snobbery among music lovers (" It's Only Entertainment "), and the uselessness of trying to predict the future (" The Future That Was ").

Stop-time in Joplin's rags is characterized by directions in the music for performers to stomp their foot to the beat.

John Stark later became a music publisher and made his fortune by publishing Scott Joplin's The Maple Leaf Rag.

The Turkey Trot was done to fast ragtime music popular in the decade from 1900 to 1910 such as Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.

Describing the work as " unpretentious ", he notes that the opera " is much more an amalgamation of the well-established American traditions of vaudeville, tab-show, melodrama, and minstrelsy, all held together by Joplin's marvelous music.

" He told the Wake Forest University newspaper that Joplin's " real dream was to give everyday people the opportunity, perhaps their only one, to experience opera on their own terms in the music halls and neighborhood theaters.

Berlin describes it as a " fine opera, certainly more interesting than most operas then being written in the United States ", but then states that Joplin's own libretto showed the composer " was not a competent dramatist " with the book not up to the same quality as the music.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

Joplin's early performances from when she was a folk-blues singer have been released on several well received compilations through the years, one such compilation is the nine disc Blow All My Blues Away.

In 1971 Joshua Rifkin brought out a compilation of Scott Joplin's work which was nominated for a Grammy Award.

The film's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag " The Entertainer " was a Top 5 hit in 1974.

In 1899, Scott Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag " was published, which became a great hit and demonstrated more depth and sophistication than earlier ragtime.

Although most ragtime was composed for piano, transcriptions for other instruments and ensembles are common, notably including Gunther Schuller's arrangements of Joplin's rags.

However its first performance, poorly staged with Joplin accompanying on the piano, was " disastrous " and it was never to be fully performed again in Joplin's lifetime.

First, pianist Joshua Rifkin brought out a compilation of Scott Joplin's work, Scott Joplin: Piano Rags, on Nonesuch Records, which was nominated for a Grammy in the " Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist ( s ) without Orchestra " category in 1971.

Hamlisch's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag " The Entertainer " won an Academy Award, and was an American Top 40 hit in 1974, reaching # 3 on 18 May.

Bell had played with Ronnie Hawkins after the departure of the original Hawks, and was best known from his days as a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Janis Joplin's last known residence was located in Larkspur at 380 West Baltimore Avenue.

Joplin's three-story " House of Lords " was its most famous saloon, with a bar and restaurant on the first floor, gambling on the second, and a brothel on the third.

On November 11, 1978, Joplin's once-stately Connor Hotel, which was slated for implosion to make way for a new public library, collapsed suddenly and prematurely.

No injuries were reported, but the Islamic Society of Joplin's building was a total loss after the blaze, first reported at about 3: 30 a. m., the Jasper County Sheriff's Office said.

Originally titled Pearl, after Joplin's nickname, and the title of her last album, it was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.

The company has toured extensively both internationally and nationally The first national tour in 1975 to the Kennedy Center saw the company present Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.

Also significant is Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha, which is unique as a black jazz-folk opera ; it was first performed in 1911.

" Of these, Joplin's and Hendrix's deaths were drug-related ; Jones's may have been ( the coroner's verdict was " death by misadventure "; there has been much controversy surrounding the events leading to his death ); Holly died in a plane crash and Marley of cancer.

Joplin's version topped the charts to become her only number one single and only the second posthumous number one single in rock & roll history ( the first was "( Sittin ' On ) The Dock of the Bay " by Otis Redding ).

It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers.

Even in retirement Dunham continued to choreograph: one of her major works was directing Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha in 1972 at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

There was a family connection of sorts between the two men, since Joplin's first wife, Belle Hayden, had been Scott Hayden's sister-in-law.

These included what is reputed to have been the first recorded version of Scott Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag "; no copies of these are known to exist today.

As a popular psychedelic act of the late 1960s, many of Joplin's live concerts with Big Brother were professionally recorded and have been released on albums like Live at Winterland ' 68 and Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.

The film's success encouraged a surge of popular and critical acclaim for Joplin's work.

Many of Taylor's early bands opened for many of the popular bands and artists of the ' 60s and ' 70s including Van Morrison, Janis Joplin's band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service.