"Benjamin and his orchestra filled the second half of the evening with lilting, humorous, and even elegant readings of ragtime numbers, a W.C. Handy blues song, and even a Sousa march…Popular music, A.D. 1900, is still going strong."
– Pasadena Star News
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Special Scott Joplin Memorial Centennial Concert at the composer’s grave, St. Michael’s Cemetery, Queens, New York
May 27, 2017 @ 2:00 pm EDT
FREE! Produced by noted Joplin biographer Edward A Berlin (author of King of Ragtime).
