Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba 13, 1974 64 ragtime London up it s a Long Way from the brawling barroom of new Orleans in 1900 to an attentive audience at London s Royal festival Hall in 197-1, but the ragtime revival Lias finally made it to the English concert platform. Twice in five months the festival Hall has had Reva recitals by Josnua Zifkin the 29-year-old american music professor who has put ragtime at the top of the classical charts in the United states with his elegant renderings of Scott Joplin compositions. The son of an sex slave was born in 1868 and was already near the end ail com his life when Irving Berlin swept the world in 1911 with Alexander s ragtime band and other syncopated hits which in fact bore As Little relationship to True ragtime As Berlioz to Bach. Joplin s famous Maple Leaf rag composed in 1899, launched a whole new style to 1 music but within 20 years it was superseded by Dixieland jazz based on the ragtime beat but essentially improvised not written Down. Zifkin banishing the Honky Tonk image performs on a concert grand piano and his delicate performances have a Quality of chamber music. Joplin s music has been enjoying in revival in North America for some time and now it has suddenly become the fashionable accompaniment Here to everything from pub sessions to trendy occasions like the opening of the roof Garden on the 1930s-style Elba department store. Of recent Mollei have Joplin soundtracks irrespective of the the sting with Robert Redford and Paul Newman is set in the 1930s and Woody Allen s new comedy Sleeper in the 21st Century. Sadler s Wells has put on a Ballet prodigal son to Joplin rags and the new York choreographer Twyla Tharp recently hit town with a much praised modern dance Ballet to the music of Joalto Jelly Roll Morton meanwhile West end record shops Are doing a roaring Trade in the single Joplin rag the entertainer from the sting s soundtrack no fewer than nine versions Are on Sale. Sales of ragtime Sheet music Are reported to be and there is a Boom in piano buying even in pianola which were a feature of every Home before the first world War. Mary Bolton of the original pianola shop in Brighton does brisk business in lovingly restored player pianos and keeps a comprehensive Stock of Rolls both original and reproduction the latter being imported from the United states. Brighton that highly individualistic resort on. The Sussex coast also has England s Only professional pianola tuner. The perfect Home Beauty treatment. 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