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The Ragtime Craze!

Florida Atlantic University Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, Boca Raton Campus, Boca Raton

Although ragtime music was first heard at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, it took another seven years for the syncopated music to become the rage of the new century. This program includes scores of archival recordings and clips, as well as live performance by Robert Wyatt.

The Enigmatic Life of Frank Sinatra

Sinatra’s career took flight from the Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliff, NJ, when trumpeter Harry James rescued him from the ranks of singing waiters in 1939. Yet not until Tommy Dorsey coaxed him into his band later that year did Sinatra begin to soar as the idol of the bobby-soxers. Within three years, he led [...]

Gilbert and Sullivan

Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum Independence Ave and 7th St SW, Washington

The musical theatre of the Victorian era radiated the brilliance of librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and to the works they jointly created. Between 1871 and 1896 they collaborated on fourteen comic operas of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known. Along with Gilbert’s [...]

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