Treemonisha (Scott Joplin) - Houston Grand Opera legendado português-BR
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2017
- Scott Joplin nasceu em Texarkana, nos Estados Unidos. Filho de um ex-escravo, soube tirar proveito de algumas aulas com um músico alemão que morava na cidade e se tornou um pianista habilidoso. Ganhava a vida se apresentando em clubes e “casas de tolerância” ou viajando para tocar com bandas e acompanhar cantores. Em 1899, publicou Maple Leaf Rag, sua primeira peça para piano no estilo ragtime, que combina o ritmo regular das marchas e danças de tradição europeia com as síncopes das tradições musicais afro-americanas (e possivelmente também latino-americanas). A partitura vendeu meio milhão de cópias, garantindo a Scott Joplin a reputação de “Rei do Ragtime”. Desejoso de ter êxito em gêneros mais ambiciosos, escreveu duas óperas: A Guest of Honor [Um Convidado de Honra], que fez uma pequena turnê em 1903, mas foi perdida, e Treemonisha, em três atos, composta em 1910. A parte vocal de Treemonisha (com acompanhamento de piano), foi publicada em 1911, mas Joplin morreu antes de poder garantir que a ópera fosse produzida. Treemonisha é cantada do começo ao fim, com alguns números no estilo das parlour songs [canções de salão] da época, mas com ritmos de ragtime em destaque na maior parte da escrita para a orquestra e para o coro. O libreto, do próprio Joplin, transcorre num único dia de 1884, numa fazenda do Arkansas ocupada por escravos libertos após a Guerra de Secessão. Treemonisha é a filha adotiva de um casal gentil, que deu a ela uma boa educação. Ao se insurgir contra a influência de um grupo de “feiticeiros” que incentivam a crença em superstições, ela é raptada por eles. Após ser resgatada, ela os perdoa, e os moradores da fazenda a saúdam como sua professora de moral e líder.
Quando Treemonisha finalmente foi encenada, durante o boom do ragtime nos anos 1970, isso aconteceu, em grande medida, graças a Gunther Schuller, que não apenas era um eminente compositor, regente e educador, mas também ex-músico de jazz e um respeitado historiador do gênero. Schuller regeu as primeiras récitas profissionais completas de Treemonisha na Houston Grand Opera, em 1975 (e depois gravou a obra). Para essas récitas, fez uma nova partitura da obra para orquestra completa, já que a orquestração do próprio Joplin não havia sobrevivido.
(FONTE: Revista OSESP Edição nº 6 / 2016 - Outubro) 
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I was one of the dancers! My first professional performance. Loved it so much!
Mary McCoy what a start! This a great performance
That's so cool! Do you know where you are in the video?
You guys were great! Top dancers and coreographers
@@idkwhattocallmyselfsothiswilld Oh yes! Absolutely.
What year was this production, please?
I weep every time I see this, because Treemonisha meant only toil, pain, and disappointment to our beloved Scott Joplin in his life. I wish we could bring him back, just for a moment, so he could see the sheer joy in the faces of the performers as they dance and sing to Joplin's creation with boundless energy, the enormous level of talent that so gladly devoted themselves to this production, and the delight of the audience for whom this spectacle ended too soon! It reminds me of the deaf Beethoven being turned around to see the roaring audience he couldn't hear. Bravo, Joplin!
really a great Opera it is Amazing how entertaining yet Meaningful it is in Treemonisha Joplin perfectly blanaced silly and serious How Stupid How Opera Companies Do Not Perform this Treemonisha would undoutably be a big "cash cow" for Stuggling Opera Companies just like Bethoveen is a cash cow for orchestras the problem is virtually no one in classical music has ANY common sense along with the Fact that most Operas only have a few good songs where as Treemonisha is Tuneful from Start to finish !!
Yes, but there is an inherent casting problem, as there is with "Porgy and Bess." Very, very few companies can devote the resources and time to a cast they would use for one opera...or maybe two if they did "P&B" in the same season. But omg, wouldn't it wonderful?
NO !!NO CASTING PROBLEMS FOR TREEMONISHA CAN HAVE A MULTIRACIAL CAST LIKE OTHER GREAT OPERAS !!!
Rick Benjamin Uncovered New Information That Joplin Put on Several full scale productions of Treemonisha with full Orchestra before His Death in 1917 Joplin was Famous in HIS Lifetime
I think it's a very important work, and an absolute shame that there isn't even a DVD of this performance available. I think from a different pragmatic level.... even though it is historically a fascinating work as one of the very few Ragtime operas out there, and from one of the USA's greatest composers of all time.... in my own PERSONAL OPINION.... I don't enjoy the work. I think the characters are rather bland and the story totally cheesy. But I think the music, dances, and orchestrations are absolutely perfect. This is the perfect cast, the greatest talent on stage with a super enthusiastic orchestra and crowd. We're seeing the best this opera has to offer.... and I just kindof winced at the characters and plot. But still, astounding performance and singing.
Scott Joplin was a true genius. Joplin's opere is very nice. A fabulous opera with great melodies. Wonderful performance.....from Texas.
I was simply blown away! If only Scott Joplin himself could have witnessed his opera being performed with such joy and energy. I wish this opera could be staged more often. Thank you, Edivaldo, for putting this video on RUclips.
Imagine if Maestro Joplin had been there this night. To witness his work displayed with SUCH love and energy and care and vitality. This production must have been one hell of an experience to have seen, AND to have been part of.
The music is so incredibly interesting, its a beautiful mix of classical and rag, truly original and genius
I saw this live when I was little girl at Miller Outdoor Theater in Houston. It was fantastic. My father bought the album and played it often. Just wonderful. So proud that Houston chose to do this opera.
Joplin is with out a doubt the most underated composer of All Time !!!!
@@PJGRAND agree!!!
I like to imagine Joplin's spirit watching this as he smiles seeing the audience clapping loudly of this masterpiece
Carmen Balthrop has been my teacher for the past two years! She is amazing as a pedagogue as well as an artist!
Lucky you!!!
Glad to hear it!
She must be your Treemonisha in a way! :)
I'm so envious! She is truly amazing with her beautiful, clear tone. And those effortless high notes at the end! A+++
She showed me the dance from the last scene. It was quite entertaining. Haha.
Now THAT's a flex to be proud of! Hahah
I understand but do not excuse the reasons this was not performed more often in the past. But the fact that it is not in the repertoire of every major opera company in this day and age is simply criminal. This ranks favorably with any opera I have ever seen.
lol its up to BLACK peope to perpetuate our greatest works to the next Generation... We must look into the mirror and build a future our children can inherit.
It should be played by the major opera houses. There is absolutely no reason it shouldn’t, this is certainly the greatest of all American operas.
i too weep at the injustices Scott Joplin had to endure, including the money lost from performances of Scott Joplin's first opera- A Guest of Honor (1903). He was living in the US after the Emancipation Proclamation but there was still defacto segregation in the southern USA . Race relations - while not perfect- have improved significantly since the Emancipation Proclamation. these improvements coincided with the passage of Brown vs Board of Education, and policies updated in response to the civil rights movements of the 1960s. Save covid, there has been no better time than now to start resurrecting this opera and to honor Mr Joplin and to support a full budget production of Treemonisha!
I think this is great music and entertainment as well as a landmark in American music. And yet even recently I have seen comments from opera snobs describing this great piece as "quaint" compared to the European operatic tradition. My response to them is this music makes no attempt to follow European traditions because it's uniquely American music. There will always be attempts to artificially push American and Black American music into the European classical tradition to falsely "legitimize" it. But there's no need because people like Joplin, Ellington, Coltrane, etc. are our American Mozarts and Beethovens.
I believe Scott got his 'big break' at the World Fair.
The audience he was aiming at was not primarilly just Black, we must remember that. And that audience kept his music going, polularised it, archived it etc.
It should be remembred, almost all musicians back then (irrepspective of 'background') were treated bad, under paid, did not have the rights to their music (nor did any expect that). Only few Classical musicans (the most famous in their lifetimes) garnered a 'wealth' from their work.
Scott was a great educator, teacher in his community. His legacy is most important there (his students etc), imho. The musical teaching, disipline he passed down ..effected Black musicians going forewards into the later styles we then saw.
P.s:
I was taught about Scott Joplin from the earliest age. His music has been in school music rooms for many, many, decades (really, going back to the Ragtime crazy). This was true across the globe (US, Europe). Considered a relief by students, after some stuffy classical pieces ;)
Scott has always been recognised as a foundation of a number of modern musical styles. Due to 'changing fads' his fame was lost a bit, in the Black community itself. Who, were busily 'moving on into the future' (out the fields) and expressing this with different types of music (while dismissing the past music as passe). Common for the public to do, trends :)
Scotts talent shows, in the fact we still hear his music (when others have faded) ..irrespective of time period, there he is :)
Also, i think his time period was VERY interesting. Fashion, slang, music ..a rare glimpse into a community at that time
Perhaps the one true American composer of the later part of the 19th century. Contemporary of Mahler, R. Strauss and Debussy and second to none of them. His sense of stage drama is amazing and the music flows like water. I hope somebody finds the score of "A Guest of Honor".
The only true great American composer.
If Scott Joplin could have come back to life for one day and had seen this play live I really think he would be crying like a baby at the end of it.
With Treemonisha Scott Joplin Created One of THE Greatest Operas EVER
holy shit. I've always been a fan of Joplin's piano works, had heard about his operas but never got around to listening to this one (the one that didn't get destroyed). now I'm sad we didn't get symphonies from this man!
Joplin is supposed to have actually written a symphony, and a Piano Concerto as well. But the manuscripts are said to be lost.
I would pull a tooth for a Joplin Piano Concerto to be found.
Montario Benjamin it makes me so sad that we don’t have the other one but at least we can treasure the surviving opera. :)
There needs to be an organized search to find more of his works!
this choreography is great, too
a true masterpiece. Gunther Schuller did an incredible job with the orchestrations. Joplin's music is so beautiful. Its criminal this glorious opera isn't heard more
If your heart doesn't beat faster whenever Carmen sings, there's something wrong with you! What an exquisite beauty, in every way.
Andy, friend of Treemonisha - tenor: Ken Hicks
Cephus, a conjurer - tenor: Michael Gray
Lucy, friend of Treemonisha - mezzo-soprano: Cora Johnson
Luddud, a conjurer - baritone: Cleveland Williams
Monisha, Treemonisha's supposed mother - contralto: Delores Ivory
Ned, Treemonisha's father - bass: Dorceal Duckens
Parson Alltalk, a preacher - baritone: Ray Jacobs
Remus, friend of Treemonisha - tenor: Curtis Rayam
Simon, a conjurer - bass: Raymond Bazemore
Treemonisha, a young, educated freed slave - soprano: Carmen Balthrop
Zodzetrick, a conjurer - baritone: Obba Babatunde
Treemonisha takes place in September 1884 on a former slave plantation in an isolated forest, between Texarkana, Texas (Joplin's childhood town) and the Red River in Arkansas. Treemonisha is a young freedwoman. After being taught to read by a white woman, she leads her community against the influence of conjurers, who are shown as preying on ignorance and superstition. Treemonisha is abducted and is about to be thrown into a wasps' nest when her friend Remus rescues her. The community realizes the value of education and the liability of their ignorance before choosing her as their teacher and leader.[20][22][23]
The opera opens with Zodzetrick, a conjurer, attempting to sell a bag of luck to Monisha ("The Bag of Luck"). However, her husband, Ned, wards him off. As Zodzetrick slinks away, Treemonisha and Remus hear the folks singing and excitedly prepare for the day ("The Corn Huskers"). Treemonisha then asks if they would like a ring play before they worked. They accept, and Andy leads the folks in a song and dance ("We're Goin' Around"). When the folks have finished dancing, Treemonisha notices that the women wear wreaths on their heads, and she herself tries to acquire one from a tree ("The Wreath"). However, Monisha stops her in her tracks, and tells her of how this certain tree is sacred. Monisha performs an aria, talking of Treemonisha's discovery under the tree ("The Sacred Tree"). Treemonisha is distraught to learn Monisha and Ned aren't her true parents and laments over it ("Surprised"). Monisha then tells of how Treemonisha was brought up and educated ("Treemonisha's Bringing Up"). Parson Alltalk then arrives in a wagon, talking to the neighborhood and confirming their belief in superstition. Whilst he distracts the folks, the conjurers kidnap Treemonisha ("Good Advice"). Once Alltalk leaves, the neighborhood realizes Treemonisha is gone ("Confusion"). Remus sets out to rescue Treemonisha.
Act 2 opens with Simon, another conjurer, singing of superstition ("Superstition"). Zodzetrick, Luddud and Cephus then debate on Treemonisha's punishment for foiling their plans earlier in the day ("Treemonisha in Peril"). Whilst Treemonisha is bound, strange creatures perform a dance number about her ("Frolic of the Bears"). Simon and Cephus then take Treemonisha to be thrown in a giant wasps' nest ("The Wasp Nest"), but Remus arrives just in time, masquerading as the devil, scaring the conjurers away ("The Rescue"). The next scene opens on another plantation, where four laborers perform a quartet about having a break ("We Will Rest Awhile / Song of the Cotton Pickers"). Treemonisha and Remus then arrive, and ask for directions to the John Smith plantation. Once they have left, the workers hear a horn, and celebrate that their work is finished for the day ("Aunt Dinah has Blowed de Horn").
The third act opens with a prelude ("Prelude to Act 3") in an abandoned plantation. Back in the neighborhood, Monisha and Ned mourn about Treemonisha's disappearance ("I Want to See My Child"). When Remus and Treemonisha return, the neighborhood celebrate, and show that they have captured two of the conjurers, Zodzetrick and Luddud ("Treemonisha's Return"). Remus then lectures about good and evil ("Wrong is Never Right (A Lecture)"). Andy still wants to punish the conjurers, and riles up the neighborhood to attack them ("Abuse"). Ned then lectures the conjurers about their own nature ("When Villains Ramble Far and Near (A Lecture)"). Treemonisha persuades Andy to forgive the conjurers ("Conjurers Forgiven"), and sets them both free. Luddud decides to abandon conjuring, but Zodzetrick insists that he will never change his ways. The neighborhood then elect Treemonisha as their new leader ("We Will Trust You As Our Leader"), and they celebrate with a closing dance ("A Real Slow Drag").
One detail I do not remember from Joplin's opera concerns how Treemonisha learned to read. I do not remember Monisha recounting how Treemonisha learned to read.
@@lucyhoward8044 She does in those exact words actually "A White Lady"
I had heard of this opera but never come across until now. I found it heartbreakingly beautiful. Thank you everyone who took part in this production, you were all brilliant.
I forgot to say thank you to you Ron Edwards for your outline storyline.
@@colinnewton5254 No problem. It IS in English, and the diction is good. But if you look away for a time this makes it easier to catch up.
Thank you for your contribution. It's very rare because Scott Joplin's Treemonisha has very few productions.
I wish Houston Grand Opera would do it again. It's been over 30 years. It's time!
Honestly, I'm tired of seeing of seeing the opera companies advertising "Madama Butterfly" again and again. I would much rather see this.
@@O5680 AMEN!
Scott Joplins music is beyond words, it is so unique and emotionally moving! I would love to see this opera produced again :)
Act Two Finale is a real show stopper which always brings me to tears.
This is the production I saw on PBS all those many moons ago. It's as wonderful as I remember; thank you so much for uploading.
Not only an OPERA ALSO BALLET???!!!! Everything about this is immeasurable beyond measure!!!!
Great production and what an amazing lead soprano!
I only just discovered this opera. It's absolutely wonderful. Balthrop is superb. I hope it is staged again. The Met should consider it.
The Met has been REALLY STUPID NOT doing TREEMONISHA ONE of The Best OPERAS EVER Honestly can you even THINK of ANY OPERA Thats better than Treemonisha ???
This is fantastic. Just watched from start to finish. A true reflection of the score. Great to see it on stage.
I could just burst. What a performance from every member of the cast. And how could Carmen B sing like that for 90 minutes? Just amazing.
It's nice that at the finale Joplin has the protagonists all marching onward together by doing the "Slow Drag," rather than the "goose step."
I can’t believe this is so underrated… this opera is a gem of music which should be way more performed in concert !
Incredibly good. Such fun. The dancing! The singing! Thank you. Thank you!
Thank you sooooo much for posting this! I have played the CD's a zillion times. Now I could finally watch the show with it. Still wish I could see a live performance, though......
Edivaldo Ferreira! Muito obrigada! Precisamos de um brasileiro como voce para termos esse Tesouro no RUclips . Grata.
this is basically a movie, cuz feels like im gonna cry, bravo
and part that got me was the very end where the horn blows, that song was too good 👍
Fantastic. What a stage presence they all have
I've been wanting to watch this ever since the publication of the DGG recording publication !!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!
So very glad that this is available on You Tube! Wonderful performance!
Great ! Great ! This is a great ,moment pre-Gershwin. Joplin's opera is very nice. This production shows all the best. Thanks.
I have the double CD since the seventies. Love and was extatic to find it on RUclips!!!!!!!!!!!
there are only 2 "black operas" in the world. we all know Porgy and Bess, so we know now which is the second
Fantastic! Make us believe once again in mankind; i mean, in the bigness of mankind! Thanks God that man existed, i mean, exists! Great Scott Joplin, since I've first listened to him, i couldn't stop anymore! Can't hear any other thing! God be blessed!
I remember when HGO presented this great show we were all so excited!! What a fabulous Opera by Joplin and what a CAST!!
1:00 holy shit can we just appreciate that guy's agility?
Obba Babatunde. Multi-talented guy! This was when he was still in theater. Now he's a screen and voice actor, and also produces new shows.
a minute in and your commenting :/
Absolutely fantastic and magnificently performed! I have always loved Joplin and I had heard that too much of the score from Treemonisha was lost. I am thrilled to learn that is not true and that his opera was not lost! If only it was performed more. I had chills during the ending!
Thank you to everyone who made this performance and recording possible.
Why isn't this being performed?!?!? This is incredible! So relevant to todays fight between misinformation/religious superstitions and education. A musical language that represents American music from a variety of regions, supports a community that leaders have been promising to support, and in ENGLISH! This is everything Opera is lacking in connecting to todays audience.
I'm from a country with not very many people of African heritage (there are several such countries in East Asia, and definitely elsewhere), and it would feel weird having non-black people even if there isn't any blackface
Also it's great to see yet another American speaking like America is the default country 😄much of Europe, Latin America and Asia likes classical music too
@@PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS That's kind of an uncalled for insult. To my knowledge this Opera has only ever been performed in the United States, written by an American about Americans. So naturally, as an American, I would be referencing its reception it had in my home country. Regardless of that, these are global issues and english is the most common language spoken in the world.
@@Yunamyhero Europe saw staged versions in Venice (Italy), Helsinki (Finland) and Gießen (Germany). After the German premiere at the Stadttheater Gießen in 1984, Germany saw another stage version at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden in April 2015.
^ from the Wiki. I am fairly surprised that it's been staged in all these places to be honest
A fabulous opera with great melodies throughout. I wish we could have this produced in Australia, it would be more popular than the 'standard' operas where most of them have only a few good tunes in them.
THIS is America's true Classical Music
Quite literally, this is the true American heritage, that for some reason is ignored today
Superb opera and superb singers - the dancing, the entire production is wonderful. Only wish that Mr. Joplin had witnessed this.
Scott Joplin was a true genius!
In Caracas 1978 I turned on the radio and something unknown was playing. I rushed to my tape recorder and recorded the whole thing. My best guess about the composer was Victor Herbert operetta. Since then I have heard it dozens of times. Later I was thrilled by the piano rags. My favorite opera, clearly influenced Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and even The Sound of Music. Amazing performance by all.
Mr Joplin was a friggin GENIUS.
Um the dancing in the overature!!! That man is going to start a hurricane with all that fanning! I would have fallen to my death.
Viv Scott Joplin!
Bravo! That man had divine talent!!!
23:27 listen to the backround music! the 3 parts specifically, It changes once, then the next time thats where the emotion hits
The Bag of Luck - 5:16
The Corn Huskers - 11:38
The Wreath - 14:34
The Sacred Tree - 16:00
Treemonisha's Bringing Up - 21:38
Good Advice - 25:58
Confusion - 30:40
Superstition (Act II, Sc. I ) - 33:30
Treemonisha In Peril - 37:02
Frolic of the Bears - 39:35
The Wasp-Nest - 41:40
The Rescue - 43:30
We Will Rest Awhile - 44:58 (Absolutely Beautiful!)
Going Home/Aunt Dinah Has Blown The Horn - 46:15
ACT III Later...
What are you doing? Resting a while?
@@DrWhomthey probably died
Fascinate
Fantastic and uplifting
Continues to fascinate me every time.
After becoming a fan of Scott Joplin and learning about his life I feel absolutely privileged to watch this play. However I also feel a bit guilty because well I have the privilege of seeing it Joplin himself never got the chance to see a finished production of this play. To me that's just a damned shame and I would give anything to bring him back long enough to at least see the play one time and maybe critique it afterwards.
A Superb Performance - Wonderful !!
there are only two *black* operas in the world. Every one knows one. Everyone should know this one, too. I have the record since more than 30 years and love every second of it.
The only other one is Gershwin’s opera ?
@@Dylonely42 right on.
@@Dylonely42 Porcy and Bess
May S. Joplin rest in peace.
The entertainer, the weeping willow, and the kismet - the life of the king of ragtime.
very well expressed
- random guy in the Scott Joplin move 😂
I've always been a fan the entertainer and a few other popular pieces. But after reading Joplin's Ghost I had to search for more of his works.
What a cast! Incredible.
Bravo Bravo Bravo!
Oh my goodness... what a magnificent work! Thank you so much for uploading this!
Maravilhoso!
The only all-American folk opera. It should be celebrated and not obscure.
Dr Joplin just so included everything into Treemonisha including ballet!! Tragedy GUEST Of Honor exists survives only by its title and subject!!!
Gracias por subir esta joya perdida de la opera. Saludos desde Mexico.
So glad I found this.
obrigado pela legenda ☺
Terrific !!
Opera eccezionale, uno Scott Joplin fantastico che tratta le voci molto bene con grande inventiva, un grande applauso à tutti gli interpreti!!
Outstanding!
Indeed.
11:37 We're Goin' Around (A Ring Play) - Andy, Chorus
28:25 Good Advice - Parson Alltalk, Chorus
39:35 Frolic of the Bears (ballet) - Chorus
44:55 We Will Rest Awhile / Song of the Cotton Pickers - Chorus
46:49 Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn - Chorus
49:07 Act 3 Prelude
1:13:30 We Will Trust You As Our Leader - Treemonisha, Chorus
1:16:01 A Real Slow Drag - Treemonisha, Lucy, Chorus
Thanks !
Scott Joplin . Puro talento e genialidade .
Master piece good work 🌝👍
The folk opera subgenre is truly entertaining, and the music of Joplin is unceasingly entrancing. Personally, I think Treemonisha should have gotten to sing the "Wrong is Never Right" aria, as she was the one who was really benevolent immediately preceding the song, but I mean, I'm not here to judge. Thank you for uploading this masterwork, I know that I've thoroughly enjoyed it!
Formidável !!
Joplin was a visionary based on a passion for history and his own experiences. Big changes in the 20th Century, let alone in 20 plus years 21s Century, and Joplin understood his own community, his own soul, to foresee the Women's Movement and Civil Rights Movements to come. Let alone the music and doing everything himself, because nobody had any interest in him except if he wanted to play to Tin Pan Alley, but not his way, I'm afraid to say. Doors closed, did it himself. Brilliant fellow, suffered so, Baruch Hashem Scott. Amen ( please ). thank you.
Amazing!
Amei
For a minute there I thought the conductor was Larry Harlow.
Incredible
RIP Carmen Balthrop
I really like this opera. wish the subtitles were in English though.
Search for the libretto, it's easily found!
@@BFDT-4 yeah but you can watch and read at the same time
Thanks to Sideways for introducing us to this gem!
Sideways brought me here too!
@@vafanapoli5396 Sideways?
So glad to see and enjoy this eventually. Shame about the aspect ratio, though. Can you fix it?
39:46 These Gators
🤩Bravo!!!👏🤩🤩 How is Mr. Joplin’s opera absent from our musical cannon and music classes??!! He is not a novelty composer!
Edvaldo, bom dia. Sou estudante eterna desta arte; a música. Poste mais ópera com legenda, please, sempre quiz assistir assim com legenda. Grata. Deus continue te capacitando.
Linda ópera afroamericana,, lastima qué no está subtitulada en Español.. saludos y gracias.
RIP Carmen
I feel cheated we ain’t learn about Scott Joplin in history classes.
Anyone knows if there is a Blu-ray or DVD version of this? Would buy it in a heartbeat
LIke Mozart, Joplin was not appreciated until after his premature death.
Mozart was very much appreciated in his lifetime, but not always in the same places at the same time. When Salzburg shunned him, he went to Vienna. When Vienna was frosty, Prague had the hots for his music. When the imperial opera house did not stage his works, the Theater auf der Wieden did, etc. Maybe you confuse Mozart with the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)?
Operas in the 18th century: Love, suffering, revenge, humor, virtuoso arias
Operas in the 20th centure: Love, suffering, revenge, humor, virtuoso arias, *OOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAH*
Zadrerick is like early Michael Jackson
36:18 even though this is the evil part its not bad
12:28
People have been wondering who the American equivalent to Tim Smith/Cardiacs is for a good decade
And I'm over here like "we had our Cardiacs equivalent all the way back in the ragtime days - and he was black to boot"
i think my fave character is remus.