Ragtime In Randall Rag

[tdub1941]

Beautiful! Very nice performance! I love it!

5 Stars.

RagJazzMonkey

Tom Warner

[tophatbill1]

I love your videos!!! Ragtime music is my all time fav. Do you do Heliotrope Bouquet?

also how bout the front page rag? it is hard to find...and one i think is great is from the movie the Boys Next door- it has a rag in it that kind of reminds me of this one...

Please keep making videos!

Your friend

Bill

[GreenHat9]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked my videos. Actually, I used to play Heliotrope Bouquet. But I stopped playing it because there are too many big stretches for my small hands - playing it made my arthritic wrists ache! I do love it, though.

I'm not familiar with 'Front Page Rag', but I'd like to hear it if I could find it.

Best regards,

Paul

[rtnanny]

Paul, you're just great to play this rag. You got the habanera beat of the 4th theme down pat. I stole this rhythmic idea from my great uncle, composer Charles N. Daniels. He did this in "Sugar Plum," a rag (labeled "intermezzo two-step") he composed in 1908 as "L'Albert." Switching back and forth between two-step and habanera works nicely and was often done in ragtime to please the dancing crowd. Definitely not a new or a Terre Verde invention. Nan Bostick, Composer

[GreenHat9]

Nan, that's very interesting. I think your great uncle Charles' "Sugar Plum" is a lovely, bouncy rag. I just listened to your performance of it with Tom Brier, and I do hear the habanera theme, which I somehow hadn't noticed before. Frankly, I like your take on the habanera rhythm (in "Randall") much better - it has so much more feeling, longing. It's enormously gratifying to play it. Thanks so much!

Best regards,

Paul

[jnclassicalguitarist]

Beautiful composition!

Wonderfully played!

Thanks, Paul!

Regards,

Julie

[idasynco]

Another solid performance. You make it look easy, which it isn't!! Great dynamics, phrasing...this rag has a big change up for a trio...interesting style and unique to Nan's compositions.

[GreenHat9]

Thanks very much, Karen. The trio is the part in A-minor, yes? I'm not familiar with this term. By my count, this is the fourth unique part of the piece, so I guess "trio" doesn't mean "third part". So how does the naming work?

[idasynco]

OH, my mistake...without the score in front of me, I just was wrong...oops!

[Gangly1]

Fantastic piece Paul. Not heard of Nan Bostick before, being a guitar player. I love the tempo changes and your dynamics are great...especially in the transition around the 2.55 mark.

I suspect this will be a little bit difficult on 6 strings though!!

Best Regards Sir,

Paul

[GreenHat9]

Thank you, Paul. Nan is well known in the ragtime circuits as a master performer, teacher, composer and historian of ragtime music. She performed at the West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento, November 2007, where I first heard her play.

Cheers, Paul