Max Morath: Living a Ragtime Life! Part 6

Max Morath In concert on 5/24/1963.

First Song: "Ragtime Nightingale"

"This is one of my favorite rags, a part of that top layer of ragtime known then and now as 'classic' ragtime. Joseph Lamb was a protege of the ragtime master, Scott Joplin, and is one of the now-legendary band of great players who established the classic ragtime style for the new syncopations. The average run of ragtime was pale by comparison. As ragtime publisher John Stark said of the classic rags, 'They create renewed exitement in the hall whenever played.'"

-Max Morath

Second Song: "Heaven Will Protect The Working Girl"

"A spoof even in 1909, when it was written for the show 'Tllie's Nightmare.' I'm sure no clear-eyed working girl really beleived that Providence alone would intercede in her behalf. Today, with fringe benefits and Social Security, the question has become purley academic anyway."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ragtime
• Max
• Morath
• Piano
• Nightingale
• Joseph
• Lamb

[ddanze]

Have always loved this tune; my Grandmother

played it - now I play it on guitar. It

evokes the mental picture of the bird hopping

around. Maybe dancing on a telegraph line.