Scott Joplin News
American composer, musician, and pianist
- piano, guitar, violin, cornet
- ragtime
- United States of America
- pianist, composer, banjoist, jazz musician
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2023-10-28 07:22:00
Exploring his musical roots: conductor Duncan Ward chats about his jazz-inspired, Eastern European & French music coming up with the London Symphony Orchestra
[…] in a light style, he was into musicals and at the age of 12, wrote a musical version of Alice in Wonderland. He took the score to one of the teachers who amazingly encouraged Duncan to perform it, and he organised the performance. No-one taut him to compose, orchestrate or conduct (though a cellist in the orchestra explained how to conduct 3/4). But he did it, and everything was instructive. He also played jazz, loved Scott Joplin and had a jazz band for a period in his mid-teens. Whilst he was in his teens he was bunking off class at school, playing the piano and was heard by members of a New Orleans Jazz band that was playing that evening. They invited him to join them that evening, which he did, and then he went on a tour of UK traditional jazz festivals. He was 13, and most other musicians were […]
2023-08-23 00:00:00
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