![]() ![]() And the Ragtime Extravaganza is the Revue’s biggest event each year - and by far "the most fun," Pemberton said. The Revue has grown to be one of southeast Michigan’s most respected performance groups, featuring musicians from across the state, including professors from Central Michigan and the University of Michigan’s music departments. He’s served as its president - and tuba player - ever since. Now, a hundred years after ragtime's apex, and 47 miles east of the Remick Music Shell, the sixth the annual Ragtime Extravaganza aims to recreate the look, feel, and sound of the music's classic era at the Michigan Theater on January 21.Įxtravaganza organizer William Pemberton has always loved ragtime music and founded the River Raisin Ragtime Revue in 2002. (Read a history of Detroit ragtime here.) In fact, the Remick Music Shell on Belle Isle is named for Jerome Remick, one of the biggest publishers of ragtime music. If the American ideal is defined by the coming together of various cultures to create a unique whole, then ragtime is the country's first musical example of that worldly synthesis.ĭeveloped in African-American communities in the 1890s, the music combines African rhythms and syncopations, European harmonies, marches, and a Latin tinge to create a sonic brew that the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin, described as "weird and intoxicating."ĭetroit loved that weird intoxication and was a hub for ragtime during the music's peak period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before it gave way to jazz. ![]() Into the valley of Erin Morris & Her Ragdolls.
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