Mention Scott Joplin and most peoples' minds go automatically to "Maple Leaf Rag." But Fayetteville State University music professor Amanda Virelles said there's a lot more to the composer, who died ...

Scott Joplin was fond of naming pieces of music after various types of leaves. The maple, palm, fig and sycamore leaves all figure in Joplin's music — and so does the rose leaf. William Albright plays ...

John Schaefer: You're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab, WQXR's incubator for emerging and mid-career artists. I'm John Schaefer, and today is the final episode of flute player Emi Ferguson's ...

Toe-tapping and head-bobbing are inevitable when listening to the "King of Ragtime’s" songs. They’re so compelling and familiar that one is even a famous ice cream truck jingle. But the music that ...

(May 5, 1976) -- A special Pulitzer Prize was given posthumously Monday to America's "King of Ragtime," Scott Joplin for the music he composed throughout his career. The award to the Texarkana native ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...