In November 1970, Joshua Rifkin released a recording called Scott Joplin: Piano Rags on the classical label Nonesuch, which featured as its third track 'The Ragtime Dance'. Joplin reused this effect in his 1910 'Stoptime Rag'. Starting with the 'D' section, the pianist is instructed to 'Stamp the heel of one foot heavily upon the floor' in time with the beat. ' Stop-time' refers to an unusual effect used in the second half of the piece. The piece was subtitled 'A Stop-Time Two Step'. It opens in the key of B-flat major, but modulates to E-flat major at the start of the 'B' section. The overall structure is: Intro AA BB CC D E F. The song also appeared in the soundtrack of the 1978 film Pretty Baby and the 1980 Broadway musical revue Tintypes.

Marvin Hamlisch incorporated 'The Ragtime Dance' into a medley for the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning 1973 film The Sting. The cover art for the 1906 sheet music featured an African American couple dancing in formal attire: the lady holds a fan, and the gentleman holds a top hat and cane. The copyright for this arrangement was registered December 21, 1906. The choreography is for four couples.įour years later, Stark republished the piece in a piano rag arrangement, stripped of its narration and choreography and substantially shortened. on a Thursday night and included a cakewalk. The narrator recounts a 'dark town' ball that took place at 9 p.m. The 1902 arrangement was a short ragtime folk ballet suitable for stage performance, complete with narration and choreography. When he eventually published it in 1902, at the urging of his daughter, it was a commercial failure. John Stillwell Stark had planned publishing it in September 1899, but had doubts about the marketability of the piece and delayed publication. *Food donations can be sent via fax and/or modem to just shove it into your USB port and hit 'enter'.Although the piece was performed in Sedalia, Missouri on November 24, 1899, it wasn't published until 1902. But how many can be hidden within phrases, where the food doesn't mean the food? I couldn't think of any right off the top. One might think that it misses on specificity, since there are dozens of traditional Thanksgiving Day foods which could be included. I generally like to see a theme that is both consistent and specific, and this puzzle certainly hits on the former. It sure would be nice to have one scale with which to judge what is 'good' or 'bad', but this serves as a good reminder that so much in crosswords is subjective. Some of them are completely fine with partials and some abhor them, especially five-letter ones. But it's been eye-opening working with a bevy of different collaborators. I would have guessed that everyone would have a similar hierarchy: old-timey entries like ADIT at the top of the hit list, followed by crossword-friendly words like ERNE/EPEE, esoteric names, and then partials.

Sidebar on A LOOP: there's a surprising disparity among constructors on what the worst type of fill is. And it allows him to fill the puzzle cleanly, with just a smattering of ETTE, OTOS, A LOOP. Jules only has two long downs in the puzzle but makes good use of them: CHARLESTON and BUICK SEDAN are both quite nice. Five is becoming the new four in terms of theme entries, and it's hard to pull off cleanly. If only there were such a thing as BRUSSEL SPROUT FLAIR or PECAN PIE GEOGRAPHY so my favorite American Thanksgiving foods could have been included*. Fun pre-Thanksgiving puzzle from Jules, phrases containing a hidden traditional Thanksgiving dish.

Ragtime dance crossword clue