Ep 3 from 'All You Need is Love: I Can Hypnotise ‘Dis Nation'
SELECTIVE RETROSPECTIVE 
"This Episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) showing what the Ragtime cakewalk was really like. Also extracts from The Royal Ballet production based on Scott Joplin’s music, “Elite Syncopations”, plus extracts staged by the Houston Grand Opera of Joplin’s only surviving opera, “Treemonisha”.
There is also rare early film of Irving Berlin (Alexander’s Ragtime Band) as well as film of Joplin’s birthplace and of the madhouse where he died. Although reference is made to other early ragtime composers, this episode is essentially the story of Scott Joplin – an extraordinary tragedy of failure, frustration, pride, of the black man’s struggle to achieve for himself a proper place in American society.
With: Eubie Blake, Houston Grand Opera, Irving Berlin, Monica Mason, Rudi Blesh, Terry Waldo and Christies Ethiopian Serenaders."
- Tony Palmer
Tickets £8
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