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The Great Crush Collision March (Scott Joplin) played by John Reed-Torres

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Uploaded by on Jan 12, 2012

Before he had any ragtime published, Joplin had written songs, marches and waltzes, including this march in 1896 commemorating a publicity stunt in which two locomotives were crashed into one another for paying spectators. So many people attended that the temporary makeshift town of Crush, Texas, was for that day the second-largest city in the state. Two or three spectators were killed and many others injured when one or both of the locomotive boilers exploded, sending shrapnel into the crowd.

John, a newcomer to the ragtime scene, adds some ragtime variations to the repeats during this performance from his ragtime festival debut at the 2011 West Coast Ragtime Festival. See John's YouTube page, http://www.youtube.com/user/ragtimejohn

Download the sheet music for this march here: http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/images/crushcol.pdf

West Coast Ragtime Festival info: http://www.westcoastragtime.com

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  • Sorry if some of you are seeing an ad on this video. There's a group called GoDigital making a fraudulent copyright claim on this public-domain work (as they do with every public-domain Scott Joplin work). If they don't stop it, they'll be receiving nasty letters from the many ragtime musicians who are also lawyers.

  • @avalonkiller (Strangely the reply function isn't working.) Yes, everyone wanted John's hat!

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  • Dat piano skill

  • dat hat

  • I am glad to learn about the history of both - the creation of this piano-piece and the mad happening creating this collision.

    Thank you all playing so and uploading ...

    Peace and health be with you!

  • I like creative rags like this, much like stoptime rag written by the same composer.

  • The golden olden days of negligence <3

  • Have to agree with you - spledid work from Scott Joplin

  • Way to go!!! Great performance!!! I really like this particular piece, and he did such a great job with it. Now if only I can remember how to play it....Thanks for the sheet music link, by the way. Now I can RE-LEARN it. :P

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