Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation Board president John Simmons’ presentation and annual report to Sedalia City Council included a $12,000 request for funding for this year’s music festival ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and ...

Louis Armstrong sang in a New Orleans quartet and ragtime composer Scott Joplin’s 1910 opera Treemonisha includes a barbershop number, “We Will Rest a While.” The groups that recorded in the late ...

Bronny James hit the first three-pointer of his NBA career in the Lakers' win over the Clippers, giving Savannah James a proud mom moment. During the Lakers' 122-97 win over the Clippers ...

There were five of us in the studio with Kris Bowers during this recording of Variety’s Behind the Song, and by the time he finished taking us through “I Could Use a Boost,” there wasn’t a ...

Marsha Norman has written 12 shows including Getting Out (Playwright), night Mother (Playwright), The Secret Garden (Bookwriter), The Red Shoes (Bookwriter), Love's Fire: Fresh Numbers by Seven ...

Batiste credits Louis Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, John Coltrane, Mahalia Jackson, James Brown, Nina Simone, and Miles Davis as the artists who have most influenced his artistic and musical choices. In ...

Classical pianist Arthur Ozolins is 79. Comedian Robert Smigel (SNL, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) is 65. Actor James Spader is 65. Country singer Garth Brooks is 63. Keyboardist David Bryan of Bon ...