Marvin Hamlisch lightly adapted and orchestrated Joplin's music for the 1973 film The Sting, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation on April 2, 1974. In 1979 Alan Rich in the New York Magazine wrote that by giving artists like Rifkin the opportunity to put Joplin's music on disk, Nonesuch Records "created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival". The album was nominated in 1971 for two Grammy Award categories, Best Album Notes and Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), but at the ceremony on March 14, 1972, Rifkin did not win in any category. Separately both volumes had been on the chart for sixty-four weeks. 4, and a combined set of both volumes at No. The Billboard Best-Selling Classical LPs chart for September 28, 1974, has the record at No. It sold 100,000 copies in its first year and eventually became Nonesuch's first million-selling record. In November 1970, Joshua Rifkin released a recording called Scott Joplin: Piano Rags on the classical label Nonesuch, which featured as its second track "The Entertainer". The centerpiece of the original cover art featured a minstrel show caricature of a black man in formal attire on a theater stage. The copyright on "The Entertainer" was registered December 29, 1902, along with two other Joplin rags, "A Breeze from Alabama" and " Elite Syncopations", all three of which were published by Stark. Stark issued an arrangement of the piece for two mandolins and a guitar. Suggested by the rag's dedication to "James Brown and his Mandolin Club", author Rudi Blesh wrote that "some of the melodies recall the pluckings and the fast tremolos of the little steel-stringed plectrum instruments". Joplin may have performed the piece at a fundraiser in Parsons, Kansas, on April 27, 1904. "It is a jingling work of a very original character, embracing various strains of a retentive character which set the foot in spontaneous action and leave an indelible imprint on the tympanum". Rosenfeld described "The Entertainer" as "the best and most euphonious" of Joplin's compositions to that point. Louis Globe-Democrat, contemporary composer Monroe H. The B section contains an indication that the melody is to be played an octave higher on the repeat. It is primarily set in the key of C major however, for the C section (commonly referred to as the "Trio"), it modulates to F major, then shifts back to C major for the D section. Its structure is: Intro–AA–BB–A–CC–Intro2–DD. "The Entertainer" is subtitled "A Rag Time Two Step", which was a form of dance popular until about 1911, and a style which was common among rags written at the time. The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it at No. The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time. 3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at No. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached No. Īs one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting. The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. Louis, Missouri, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. It was sold first as sheet music by John Stark & Son of St. " The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. Live performance of "The Entertainer" in 2007
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