- NEW PRO ALBUM RELEASED February 11, 2023.
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 world premier recording of the recently rediscovered George Gershwin overture, La-La-Lucille! (1919). This new PRO album was produced by Judith Sherman, the 2022 and 2023 Grammy Award winning “Producer of the Year, Classical.” The new album can be purchased here.
- RECENT PRO ALBUM GAINS ASIA MARKET June 23, 2022.
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 June 19, 2022.
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 SNOWDON’S “Slow Drag Blues,” CLARENCE WILLIAM’S “Royal Garden Blues,” and J. TIM BRYM’S “Valse Angelique.” WQXR’s support of our work goes all the way back to 1988, when the station first produced what became a series of live PRO simulcast concerts from around New York. And since that time they’ve been regular broadcasters of our recordings. Thanks, WQXR!
- PRO AWARDED NATIONAL ENDOWMENT GRANT April 23, 2022.
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 these funds to produce a concert or film show.
- PRO’S DIRECTOR PRAISED BY ‘THE NEW YORK TIMES’ March 29, 2022.
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 “magisterial.” Click on the link to read a PDF of the article: “Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Is Ambrosia: Here’s Why It Matters” by John McWhorter.