NEW PRO ALBUM RELEASED
The Orchestra’s nineteenth album was released on February 12 on the Rialto label. Entitled DEUCES WILD, this new album includes twenty-five historic pieces (over seventy-six minutes of music) and features the […]
RECENT PRO ALBUM GAINS ASIA MARKET
Our recent surge of happy fan email from Asia has now been explained! Our most recent album has gone on sale there. ありがとう！/ 감사합니다! / 谢谢你！
PRO ON THE AIR IN NEW YORK CITY
Our old friends at WQXR CLASSICAL RADIO featured the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra FIVE times for their “Juneteenth” broadcast day: WILL MARION COOK’S “In Dahomey Overture,” EUBIE BLAKE’S “Shuffle Along Overture,” Q. ROSCOE […]
PRO AWARDED NATIONAL ENDOWMENT GRANT
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA.gov) has once again re-authorized PRO’s annual performance touring grant – Paragon LIVE in Historic American Theaters. Click here to see how your presenting organization could access […]
PRO’S DIRECTOR PRAISED BY ‘THE NEW YORK TIMES’
We’re always happy to see a Scott Joplin article in The New York Times, and even happier when it gives live links to our recordings and calls our conductor’s contributions to Joplin’s legacy […]
THE HARTFORD COURANT FEATURES OUR DIRECTOR
Today the Hartford Courant – America’s oldest newspaper – published this lovely feature article about Rick Benjamin’s lecture appearance in Canterbury, Connecticut. You can read the piece here: “Ragtime Expert Rick Benjamin Enchants […]
PARAGON RAGTIME ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES 30th ANNIVERSARY
30 years ago today Rick Benjamin conducted the first rehearsal of a new student group he was organizing at The Juilliard School: “The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.” We’re delighted to say […]
BROADWAY TRADE NAMES NEW PRO RECORDING A TOP TEN VOCAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
It’s good to see that our new Irving Berlin CD has just been selected as one of the “Top Ten Vocal Albums of 2015” by TALKIN’ BROADWAY – http://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/sound/january2916.html. We’re in pretty good […]
NEW ALBUM PRAISED BY TALKIN’ BROADWAY –IRVING BERLIN: THIS IS THE LIFE!
The review of our brand new album has just appeared in TALKIN’ BROADWAY. Here’s the opener: “Response to the singing and instrumental work on New World Record’s new CD could reach […]
PARAGON’s 17th ALBUM RELEASED –IRVING BERLIN: THIS IS THE LIFE!
Ranging from his explosive 1909 arrival as “The Ragtime King” into the dawn of the Jazz Age, this album highlights legendary American songwriter Irving Berlin’s music for vaudeville, revue, and the […]
