Aaron J. Rabushka: ....wonders what would've happened had ragtime fallen into the hands of Tchaikovsky (bigoted as he was) or Dvorak...
And Les chimes in: Oh, I dunno - I've always felt Dvorak did toss a little rag into the New World Symphony -- that secondary tune in the exposition of the first movement could have been a quick Joplin syncopated two-step! Best, Les Les Marsden Founding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale