1973's The Sting took it global, but there's more to ragtime music than that film's Keystone Kops crazy-chase soundtrack
Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to The Maple Leaf Rag played by Scott Joplin
One album was all it took to herald a revival. In 1970, the year of Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and The Beatles' Let It Be, a record of arcane late 19th-century American piano music, released on a label that was otherwise building its reputation as a chronicler of the hardcore American avant-garde, began to sell in implausible quantities. Audiences ordinarily enamoured of piano miniatures by Chopin, Brahms and Liszt were suddenly taking pleasure in the compositions of Scott Joplin, the Texas-born "King of Ragtime" whose über-catchy 1899 Maple Leaf Rag brought him immediate popularity, but who died in 1917 with two typically embarrassing composerly problems hanging over him: syphilis and a terminally unproduced opera, Treemonisha,...
Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to The Maple Leaf Rag played by Scott Joplin
One album was all it took to herald a revival. In 1970, the year of Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and The Beatles' Let It Be, a record of arcane late 19th-century American piano music, released on a label that was otherwise building its reputation as a chronicler of the hardcore American avant-garde, began to sell in implausible quantities. Audiences ordinarily enamoured of piano miniatures by Chopin, Brahms and Liszt were suddenly taking pleasure in the compositions of Scott Joplin, the Texas-born "King of Ragtime" whose über-catchy 1899 Maple Leaf Rag brought him immediate popularity, but who died in 1917 with two typically embarrassing composerly problems hanging over him: syphilis and a terminally unproduced opera, Treemonisha,...
- 1/22/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
Oscar-winning composer who found success on Broadway with A Chorus Line
The American musician Marvin Hamlisch, who has died aged 68 after a short illness, won three Oscars, four Emmys, four Grammys and a Tony award in the course of composing A Chorus Line and a host of movie soundtracks, including The Sting and The Way We Were. Barbra Streisand, who starred in the latter film alongside Robert Redford, praised Hamlisch for "his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity and delicious sense of humour, which made him a delight to be around".
Hamlisch began his professional career working as a rehearsal pianist for Streisand's Broadway show Funny Girl. A meeting with the film producer Sam Spiegel led to his first film score, for The Swimmer (1968), and he then worked on the early Woody Allen movies Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971).
By the early 1970s, Hamlisch was on a spectacular creative...
The American musician Marvin Hamlisch, who has died aged 68 after a short illness, won three Oscars, four Emmys, four Grammys and a Tony award in the course of composing A Chorus Line and a host of movie soundtracks, including The Sting and The Way We Were. Barbra Streisand, who starred in the latter film alongside Robert Redford, praised Hamlisch for "his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity and delicious sense of humour, which made him a delight to be around".
Hamlisch began his professional career working as a rehearsal pianist for Streisand's Broadway show Funny Girl. A meeting with the film producer Sam Spiegel led to his first film score, for The Swimmer (1968), and he then worked on the early Woody Allen movies Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971).
By the early 1970s, Hamlisch was on a spectacular creative...
- 8/8/2012
- by Adam Sweeting
- The Guardian - Film News
Award-winning arranger and producer best known for music from film The Sting and for Barbra Streisand's The Way We Were
Marvin Hamlisch, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies including The Sting and the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles. He was 68.
Hamlisch collapsed and died on Monday after a brief illness, his publicist Ken Sunshine said, citing the family. Other details were not released.
Hamlisch's career included composing, conducting and arranging music from Broadway to Hollywood, from symphonies to R&B hits. He won every major award in his career, including three Academy Awards, four Emmys, four Grammys, a Tony and three Golden Globes.
The one-time child prodigy's music coloured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most important works.
Hamlisch composed more than 40 film scores, including Sophie's Choice, Ordinary People, The Way We Were and Take the Money and Run. He won...
Marvin Hamlisch, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies including The Sting and the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles. He was 68.
Hamlisch collapsed and died on Monday after a brief illness, his publicist Ken Sunshine said, citing the family. Other details were not released.
Hamlisch's career included composing, conducting and arranging music from Broadway to Hollywood, from symphonies to R&B hits. He won every major award in his career, including three Academy Awards, four Emmys, four Grammys, a Tony and three Golden Globes.
The one-time child prodigy's music coloured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most important works.
Hamlisch composed more than 40 film scores, including Sophie's Choice, Ordinary People, The Way We Were and Take the Money and Run. He won...
- 8/7/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Composer Marvin Hamlisch -- one of only 11 people to win all four big showbiz awards (Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony) -- died Monday at age 68. Of the grand slam winners, Hamlisch earned the most Oscars (three) and Grammys (four) and is tied with Mike Nichols for the most Emmys (four). Only Hamlisch and the very first grand slammer, Richard Rodgers, also have the Pulitzer Prize. Related: Egot winners photo gallery Hamlisch won his three Academy Awards in 1973 for both the title song and dramatic score of "The Way We Were" and the adapted/original score of Best Picture champ "The Sting." His work on those two films brought him three Grammys the following year -- Song of the Year and TV/Movie Score Album for "The Way We Were" and Pop Instrumental Performance for "The Entertainer" (the theme from "The Sting"). He also won Best New Artist. In 1976, he claimed...
- 8/7/2012
- Gold Derby
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2:30 pm The Walking Dead marathon (AMC) | Blood, guts and carcasses. Nope, it’s not your Thanksgiving leftovers; just zombies. Catch up on the series’ second season before the mid-season finale airs at 9 pm.
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8 pm The Amazing Race (CBS) | Racers shift into high gear when they take a thrilling test drive, and results are far...
- 11/27/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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