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BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS EIGHTY YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 1936 • Monett Postmaster J.P. Martin has received blueprints and specifications for the new Monett post office. It will be constructed of brick, one story in height, with a large basement. A large public lobby in the front will have a tile floor and tile wainscot. The building will be similar to the Aurora post office in size. • More than 1,000 persons attended funeral service for James O. “Jim” Browning, former heavyweight wrestling champion who grew up in Verona and died June 19 in Rochester, Minn., where he recently underwent an operation. Browning won the National Wrestling Association title in 1933 by beating Strangler Lewis. SEVENTY YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 1946 • Despite a rainy beginning, the annual Jaycees Carnival opened with record throngs. To the great joy of the kiddies, the ponies arrived on June 20 and were given a continuous workout as the children clamored for rides. The aroma of frying hamburgers and sizzling hot dogs proved so tantilizing — maybe the cold weather helped– that they sold out on the 20th. • The War Dads on June 21 made plans to obtain additional housing space in Monett for veterans and their families. Literature would be distributed urging people to make room in their home for veterans’ families, or to convert extra space into apartments. SIXTY YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 1956 • A pretty Purdy Miss, Loanna Rupp, daughter of

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Rupp, was crowned Monett’s 1956 Miss Maid of Milk on June 22 as a climax to the annual Dairy Day Festival. The Monett Chamber of Commerce sponsored the contest. • Construction is expected to begin soon on a $110,000 addition to the National Guard Armory at Pierce City that will be located immediately to the east of the current structured at Locust and Main streets. The addition will be a one-story, 92-by-136foot assembly hall that will be used by Company D, 135th Tank Battalion and as a gymnasium and meeting place. FIFTY YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 1966 • Col. Ralph J. Hallenbeck, a native of Monett and chief of staff at the U.S. Air Force Academy for the past four years, has been named to be the deputy secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. A 1939 graduate of Monett Junior College, the 47-year-old colonel graduated from West Point in 1943 and served nearly a year as a prisoner of war of the Germans. • Twirlers and instructors attending the 13th annual baton twirling camp in Monett held a surprise party for Homer F. Lee, founder and director of the camp. The 412 twirlers purchased a cake large enough to serve 500 persons and the instructors presented it to Lee with a gift. FORTY YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 1976 • Heavy rain dumping 6.3 inches of rain in 24 hours sent streams out of their banks on June 23. N.H. Bowman of Monett

Monett’s City Hall Auditorium was long a center for entertainment, even from out of town performers like youths from Purdy. On June 19, 1956, piano and accordion pupils of Mrs. Harvey D. Phillips of Monett presented a recital. Accordionists preparing for the performance, pictured, from left, were: Rex Henderson, Johnny Henderson, Ray Henderson, Ronnie Henderson and Ike Hemphill. File photo/The Monett Times had his pickup swept of the low water bridge at the east end of Broadway. Burl Thomas made his way to Bowman’s truck with a rope, which Bowman used to escape. • During its 10th reunion, the Monett High School Class of 1966 presented the school district with a plaque in memory of Col. Howard Andrew Threet, a class member killed in Vietnam. The plaque was to be hung in the foyer of the classroom building. THIRTY YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 1986 • George Spratley, whose parents owned the Spratley Garage, visited Monett for the first time since 1929. “Monett surely must have the best in

civic leadership,” he said. “When I left in 1929, the Frisco Railroad was the only industry.” • International Dehydrated Foods Inc, with facilities in Monett, received the “New to Export” Award during Missouri’s third annual Governor’s Conference on International Trade. IDF currently exports to Canada and has orders pending to Israel and Singapore. TWENTY YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 1996 • The move has begun into the new Monett High School. Superintendent Charles Cudney said waxing had started on the east wing, asphalt work would begin immediately and crews were getting ready

to lay curbing. • Fausto and Alma Villagrana have arrived in Monett for a five-year appointment to serve as missionaries to the Hispanic community through the First United Methodist Church in Monett. They will split their duties between Monett and Noel. TEN YEARS AGO JUNE 19-25, 2006 • Construction is underway at the Monett Municipal Airport, where Jack Henry and Associated

is doubling the size of office space that houses the company’s travel office. The single-story addition to the building is part of a five-year plan. Work will be completed by the end of summer. • The Lawrence County Commission is considering putting a funding proposal on the November general election ballot as plans shape up for what is likely to be a new judicial center, located a block north of the Mt. Vernon square.

ON THE COVER: Bryan Wright, playing at the Scott Joplin Festival in Sedalia, concluded a two-piano rendition of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” with fellow pianist Tom Brier, who simply would not stop, making it impossible to end together, the goal of duo piano performances. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

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Keep the beat alive: Ragtime celebrated in Sedalia Missouri’s Scott Joplin Festival salutes the ‘cradle of ragtime’ BY MURRAY BISHOFF

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he Scott Joplin Ragtime Music Festival, the largest event of its kind in the nation and an annual event in Sedalia, saw several major changes at the 2016 celebration, including a salute to three major figures who helped begin the tradition in 1974. The Joplin festival celebrates the birth of ragtime, America’s first original music form that served as the root for jazz. It was in Sedalia in 1899 that Scott Joplin, later recognized as the king of ragtime, signed the first music contract between an African American musician and a white publisher, awarding royalties, serving as a model for interracial business that followed. The publisher, John Stark, is also celebrated for his vision. This year a commemorative plaque was unveiled in the Sedalia square outside of where Stark had his business, acknowledging the cultural milestone. Next to that spot, the Stark Pavilion tent, the largest outdoor venue of the festival, served as a focal point for activity. Syncopated music poured from the spot, a living legacy to a simple business deal that laid the groundwork for popular American music. On Saturday afternoon, the tent site served as the center of the world for festival goers. Around 400 people packed under the tent, spilling over onto the nearby sidewalks and the courthouse lawn, to hear two hours of dual piano mania. Typical was the performance by Brian Holland, this year’s artistic director, and Jeff Barnhart, a favorite two-piano team, performing the “Great Scott Rag” by Carthage native James Scott (1909). Syncopated rhythms and improvised harmonies spilled out in quantity taxing the human limit, Barnhart stomping the stage for more effect on the last verse as octogenarian Mike Schwimmer, back after several years, adding another layer of sound on the washboard. Between such volcanic outbursts came songs, those indelibly funny ragtime-era Tin Pan Alley ditties. Bryan Wright sang from a 1921 record

Jeff Barnhart was one of the most popular performers playing under the Stark Pavilion Tent in the Sedalia square during the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com “Oh, They’re Such Nice People,” filled with homicidal implications that the too-dense narrator does not grasp. Blues queen Bessie Smith’s 1930 song “Kitchen Man,” loaded with sexual double entendres about food and kitchenware, became doubly funny when sung by Wright’s wife, Yuko, a dainty Japanese who has a PhD in ethnomusicology, belting it out like a bawdy earth mother. The Saturday afternoon set ended with a call-and-response on Papa Charlie Jackson’s 1920s hit “Shake That Thing,” as Barnhart improvised rhymes to invite over a dozen performers in the audience to come on stage and play a verse until the scene dissolved into pandemonium, performers

dancing on stage, five people trying to play one piano and the audience clapping along. This year’s festival, held June 1-4, moved almost all of the concerts downtown, leaving auditoriums at the State Fair Community College west of the fairgrounds and the high school for the Liberty Center, a block off the square. After a fire in January destroyed the historic First United Methodist Church, another block away, which had housed the afternoon concerts and symposiums since 2009, more relocation had to take place. Those too moved back into the Liberty Center. Changes came out of a general reassessment of the festival’s operations, coinciding with a new artistic director.

Last year, with the death of the festival’s director, another leader stepped in, Terri Ballard, executive director of the Liberty Center Association for the Arts. Years before, the Liberty Center, a surviving old theater, had served as a main performance venue for the festival. Strained relations in 2008 and growing crowds prompted festival leaders at the time to seek different housing for most events. Ballard’s further assistance offered to mend that rift. In October, the Liberty Center began construction on a major addition, providing new bathrooms and activity space that made the facility much more useable as a public events venue. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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A LOOK AT AREA EVENTS THIS WEEK

BY MURRAY BISHOFF

ROGERS, Ark: At the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Rd., Widespread Panic performs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: At George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson, performing this week are the Wabi Wabi Spring, Dio, Abboriginal, Purp Loader, Spiff, Atta and No.Faces on Thursday; Unevowned King and the Boss Tweeds plus Queens of Dickson with Trixie Mattel on Friday; tribute concerts to Phish and Talking Heads on Sunday; Ben Nichols, Oliver Peck Bike Riders and Baker of Gravedancer on June 20; Candlebox Acoustic and Ben Del Shreve; and Seth Cagle plays JP and the Lees on June 23. The Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival continues at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center, 340 N. Garland Ave., with performances of the Cello Sonata and Piano Quintet by Frank Bridge. The final concert will be a tribute to composer Florence Price, with two pieces of hers and a film on her life, at 7:30 p.m. on June 22 at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville. EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark.: Legendary folk singer and singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot performs at 8 p.m. on June 23 at the Auditorium, 36 S. Main. JOPLIN: At the Downstream Casino, performing this week are Retrorockerz with classic rock on Friday. and Brent Giddens and the VCR Band with country on Saturday. TULSA, Okla.: Leon Russell performs at 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Hard Rock Casino in Catoosa. Pop diva Selena Gomez performs with Joe Jonas’s band DNCE and Bahari at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the BOK Center, 200 S. Denver. At Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main, performing this week are Rev. Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson, Koffin Kats and Lincoln Durham on June 21; Citizen Cope on June 22 and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on June 23. KANSAS CITY: At the Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., R&B artists Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill and Joe perform at 8 p.m. on Friday. Lil Wayne and 2Chainz perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday. At the Starlight Theater in Swope Park, Bad Company and Joe Walsh perform at 7 p.m. on June 20. Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples perform at 7:30 p.m. on June 21. Widespread Panic performs at 8 p.m. on

June 22. Steely Dan plays at 7 p.m. on June 23. At the Midland Theatre, 1228 Main, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo perform at 8 p.m. on June 23. At the Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., Rosanne Cash performs at 8 p.m. on Friday. The Kansas City Symphony, chorus and soloists perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 7 p.m. on Thursday, 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway. The Robert Cray Band plays at 8 p.m. on Thursday at the VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino.

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SPRINGFIELD: Missouri State University’s Tent Theater in Springfield presents “All Shook Up,” a musical based on the early career of Elvis Presley, with shows at 8 p.m. through Saturday. Paul Slade Smith’s comedy “Unnecessary Farce” opens June 23 with shows for the next two weekends, all on the lawn behind Craig Hall. Springfield Contemporary Theater’s production of Peter Shaffer’s play “Black Comedy” is offered at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at 431 S. Jefferson. OZARK: Ron Boutwell’s play “The Angel of Bochim” runs through July 2 at the Stained Glass Theater, 1996 Evangel. ROGERS, Ark.: Mitch Albom’s play “Tuesdays with Morrie” is presented at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Arkansas Public Theatre, 116 S. Second St. NEOSHO: The Crowder college theater department presents a stage version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2 at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Elsie Plaster Community Center. TULSA, Okla.: At the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 S. Second St., the musical “Forever Plaid” is presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, 7 and 9 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday in the Liddy Doenges Theater. Favorite original short plays are offered by playwrights Dan McGeehan and Susan Apker at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in the Charles Norman Theatre. “The Ultimate Elvis Experience,” a theater show with Jake Rowley, known for his young Elvis in “Million Dollar Quartet,” is pre-

sented at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in the Chapman Music Hall. “The Way Motown Revue,” an ensemble presentation of monster hits by 10 performers is offered at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Robert LaFortune Studio. Tulsa Youth Opera presents Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the John H. Williams Theatre. BROKEN ARROW, Okla.: The Broadway musical “Gypsy” is presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, with more shows next weekend at the Community Playhouse, 1800 S. Main. KANSAS CITY: “The Bridges of Madison County” is presented at 8 p.m. Thursday through Sunday at the Starlight Theater in Swope Park. “Heathers: The Musical” runs through June 26 at the Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main. Musical Theater Heritage presents Roger Miller’s “Big River,” a musical version of “Huck Finn,” running through June 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Crown Center, Pershing Road and Grand Blvd. “Madagascar: A Musical Adventure,” a stage version of the animated film, runs through Aug. 6 at the Coterie Theatre at Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd. The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival presents “Twelfth Night,” at 8 p.m. through July 3 at the Southmoreland Park, 47th and Oak St. Alfred Uhry and Jason Brown’s play “Parade” is offered at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, with more shows June 23 through next weekend at the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main. ARROW ROCK: The Lyceum Theater presents “Oliver!” at 8 p.m. at 2 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. on June 23 with more shows through next weekend. COLUMBIA:The Columbia Entertainment Company’s production of “The Music Man” runs at 7:30 p.m. through Sunday at 1800 Nellwood Dr., with more shows next weekend. The Corner Playhouse at the University of Missouri present “Greater Tuna” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The Missouri Symphony Orchestra and Missouri Contemporary Ballet perform new works at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at the Missouri Theater, 203 S. Ninth St. “Truffles and Nougat,” a restored 19th century French farce, is presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday by Talking Horse Productions at 201 St. James St. ST. LOUIS: Garrison Keillor for one final tour presents “A Prairie Home Companion” radio show live at 4:45 p.m. Saturday at the Fox Theater, 527 N. Grand.

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SPECIAL EVENTS Rotary Rodeo will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Bill Hailey Arena.

SPRINGFIELD: The Outlaws Nationals Monster Truck Show runs Saturday and Sunday at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, Highway 37. Repticon, the Springfield reptile and exotic animal show, is offered 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Shrine Mosque, 601 St. Louis. TULSA, Okla.: A Metcalf Gun Show is offered Saturday and Sunday at the River Spirit Expo Hall at Expo Square, 4145 E. 21st St. Rodeos this week include the Juneteenth Multicultural Rodeo on Thursday in Ponca City, northwest of Tulsa, and in Tulsa on Sunday; the Big Brothers Rodeo at Drumright, west of Tulsa on on Sunday, and the Fort Gibson PARCA Rodeo on Sunday in Fort Gibson, west of Tahlequah. BRANSON: The Star-Spangled

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Opera Theater St. Louis continues its season at the Loretto Hilton Center on the Webster University campus in Webster Groves. Shows include Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 8 p.m. on Thursday and 1 p.m. on Saturday and on June 22; Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” at 8 p.m. on Saturday and 8 p.m. on June 22; and Jack Perla’s new opera “Shalimar the Clown” at 8 p.m. on Friday, 7 p.m. on Sunday and 8 p.m. on June 23. Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is presented as part of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis at 8 p.m. in Forest Park by the Art Museum through June 26 except on Tuesdays. The Muny opens its outdoor theater season in Forest Park with the stage version of “The Wizard of Oz,” running at 8:15 p.m. June 13-22. Alan Ball’s play “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” opens Thursday and runs trough June 25 at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays at the Tower Grove Abbey Theater, 2336 Tennessee Ave. Stages St. Louis presents “It Shoulda Been You” at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday, 2 and 8 p.m. June 22 and 8 p.m. June 23 at the Robert Reim Theatre at the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 S. Geyer Rd. “Disney’s Alice in Wonderland” is presented at 11 a.m. Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. June 21-23 at the Playhouse at Westport Plaza. Both shows continue to July 3. CASSVILLE: The 74th annual Cassville

Summer Festival runs through July 24 at Silver Dollar City, including the 90th anniversary celebration of the Harlem Globetrotters, magician Peter Gossamer. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: The Arkansas New Play Festival runs at 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday and again next weekend at the Walton Art Center, 495 W. Dickson, featuring three readings of new American plays. “Romeo and Juliet: Damascus,” Shakespeare’s play set in modern Damascus, adapted by Kholoud Sawaf, is presented at 7 p.m. on Friday and 8 p.m. on June 23 at the Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson. Amy Evans’ play “The Champion” is presented at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Deborah Yarchun’s play “Tectonic Mélange” is presented at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

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For a great chance to see quality opera close to home, check out Opera Theater of the Ozarks, a program for college and post-college singers to gain experience. All productions are done in full costume, with live orchestra and supertitles. Performances include Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and June 22, Benjamin Britten’s comedy “Albert Herring” at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and June 23; and “Pagliacci” and Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” at 7:30 p.m. on June 21. All performances are at the Inspiration Point music shed on Highway 62, west of Eureka Springs, Ark.

The OK Mozart Festival runs through Saturday in several locations in Bartlesville, Okla. A concert of jazz is offered by Catherine Russell and her quintet at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Bartlesville Community Center, 300 S.E. Adams Blvd. The Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra offers its big outdoor concert at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Woolaroc Wildlife Preserve. The Tulsa Symphony plays the Grand Finale Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” at the Community Center. Chamber music concerts are held at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Thursday and Friday at Ambler Hall, 415 S.E. Dewey Ave.

Great variety is offered in the Eureka Springs Blues Weekend, with concerts Thursday through Sunday in several locations. On Thursday, Damon Fowler of the Allman Brothers, J.P. Soars and Victor Wainwright perform at the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, 239 Turpentine Creek Lane. Chris Duarte plays at the Barefoot Ballroom. Performers Friday include Alvin Youngblood Hart at Turpentine Creek, Blew Reed and the Flatheads at the Rowdy Beaver, Bourbon Highway at New Delhi; and Chris Duarte at the Barefoot Ballroom. Playing Saturday are Blew Reed at New Delhi; Buddy Shute at the Rowdy Beaver; and the Cate Brother, Trey Johnson and Jason Willmon, Divas on Fire and Cedell Davis at Turpentine Creek. On Sunday, Brick Fields and the Delgado Brothers play at Turpentine Creek; and Whiskey Mendez at New Delhi. Other venues also have acts booked.

Murray Bishoff is a veteran theatergoer, traveling weekends to many of the venues within driving distance, from Tulsa to St. Louis. From dance recitals to operas, he’s been there and shares his recommendations.

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Ragtime: Crowd was thrilled by return of three major performers of past

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The festival board subsequently hired Ballard as its new executive director. According to Kathleen Boswell, president of the Scott Joplin Foundation board, festival leaders decided to rent office space in the Liberty Center as well and close its store, which had been a fixture downtown for decades. The store opened in the new addition to the Liberty Center for the festival’s duration, then much of the material went back into storage. Performers were asked to take their CDs with them, and others were mailed back, leaving the store to largely restock itself with new material next year. As final preparations drew near, another major problem developed when Ballard’s husband developed health issues and she found herself shuttling to St. Louis to be with him during cancer treatments. In stepped Deb Biermann, executive director of the Sedalia Heritage Foundation and site manager for the restored KATY Depot. With the activation of other board members under Biermann’s leadership, the festival swung into gear. Wednesday concerts, which had higher attendance than usual, were held at State Fair Community College. All later paid afternoon and evening concerts as well as symposiums were held in the Liberty Center. Boswell crossed her fingers the Saturday night concert in particular would not overrun the approximately 400-seat facility. Extra excitement comes from a full house, she observed, as opposed

to the comfortable but spacious 770-seat Heckart Performing Arts Center at the new Smith-Cotton High School, used for the last five years. Concert sales for 2014 and 2015 had dipped to where the Liberty Center would again prove adequate for evening concerts. Though nearly full on Saturday, the hall proved adequate this year as well. Major excitement stemmed from three of the major performers/ artistic directors from the festival’s earliest years returning: Max Morath, now 89; Richard Zimmerman, now 79; and Terry Waldo, who accompanied his mentor, Eubie Blake, to the 1974 festival. Each spoke on a reflective symposium about the first year of the festival. Morath and Zimmerman spoke in greater depth in their own presentations. Morath, likely the best known of all modern ragtimers who retired in 2006, offered a retrospective on his career, “Living the Ragtime Life,” using the title of the 1900 song. From his early days as a professional pianist playing jazz, once playing in a brothel at age 19 — “I thought it was a nursing home” — to playing for conventions, trade shows and at hotels, Morath talked with tongue in cheek about the travails of a traveling musician. He advised when to get to gigs, paying the maitre d, maybe enlisting the busboys at $5 each to help get the grand piano on stage if it arrived before the stage was set up, and never staying in the hall on break to avoid the offers of drinks, even if it meant retreating into the

In his only “performance” at the festival, Max Morath gave the words to Benjamin Harney’s “Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose” while Ramona Baker played and festival artistic director Brian Holland held the music. Murray Bishoff/times-

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kitchen and its “ancient grease” smell. Morath recalled “Ragtime Bob” Darch, “one of the most persuasive ragtime missionaries,” Johnny Maddox, himself and a few others who toured playing ragtime in the 1950s and 1960s. Having worked as a broadcaster, in 1952 Morath was hired to run a TV station, which supported him between piano gigs. His playing brought him to the attention of National Educational Television, now PBS, which was looking for show material in the 1950s. Morath made 28 episodes of “The Ragtime Era,” a half-hour show that got distributed nationally with the dawn

of videotape. Record companies called, he made recordings, and in 1967 struck out on his own as a full-time musician, crafting six shows that he toured with for 40 years. Today Morath is working on editing a folio of recently composed rags, with his partner from the first TV show, and a screenplay about Missouri ragtime-era genius John William “Blind” Boone, who played at the Pierce City Opera House in 1886. Morath said, “Sixty is the new 90,” so it should be no surprise that he remains busy, a comment that brought cheers from his gray-haired audience members. Likewise, Zimmerman made a presentation on

his latest project, a folio of 35 rags published by John Stark from the approximately 50 pieces issued that were not written by “the Big Three”: Joplin, Scott and Joseph Lamb. Zimmerman has released a CD of the 18 best of the group, and is working on another recording of early Chicago ragtime to accompany another folio he has edited and published. The music, the irresistible under-your-skin bouncing tunes and driving syncopation, pulled in the audience. The spectacle of the players, who made all that finger flying look easy, proved to be a stronger draw, and varied as much as the music. Making his first

appearance at the festival was John ReedTorres. At 24, one of the younger players, Reed-Torres frequently played his own compositions, like the “Belle of Los Angeles” and the “Carrot Cakewalk,” very gentle, lightly played, like a melodic breeze through the trees, structured very similarly to the simple models offered in 1905 by Joplin and Scott. Violinist David Reffkin provided the concert hall quality of a different instrumental voice, paired with pianist David Majchrzak as accompanist. While playing Joplin’s “The Chrysanthemum” (1904) and the “Sugar Cane Rag” (1908) in Joplin’s familiar, pure voice, Reffkin

The Monett Times Midweek also tried oddities, like playing the very familiar “Maple Leaf Rag” (1899) backwards, a feat of orchestration that sounded nothing like Joplin, with brief moments of familiarity as the forward melody peeked through, culminating in the surprising last (first) note, then silence, leaving the audience chuckling. “Our focus has always been ragtime,” said Holland, wearing his artistic director hat. “Should we include other styles of music, and those that descended from ragtime? Absolutely. I allow artists to be who they are. I want [boogie woogie specialist] Sonny Leyland to be Sonny, not to play rags. If I wanted to hire only ragtime musicians, they’d be four of us, and about four in the audi-

ence. We celebrate early American music and all that came out of it.” While the performers generally played Scott Joplin straight, without interpolating jazz chords and phrasing that turn his music into something he did not imagine, many offered exciting variations from other composers. Majchrak, for example, played an all-over-the-piano arrangement he made of Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” (1896). The supremely polished Frederick Hodges played a piano arrangement of the overture to Irving Berlin’s 1914 Broadway show “Watch Your Step,” 10 songs that sounded like the whole show, including one addition by Hodges, “Play a Simple Melody,” the show’s hit song, known to the pub-

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Thursday, June 16, 2016 • Page 7 lic because Ethel Merman sang it in the film “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” Adam Swanson, now 24 and finishing his second music degree at the Peabody Institute, played Eubie Blake’s “Blue Thoughts” (1933) on Friday night, a rich palette of alternating keys and big chords, along with a medley of Broadway songs by Rodgers and Hart, providing the smooth, romantic sound of a pit band rather than a percussive ragtime piano. There were the thunderers, led by Tom Brier. Another West Coast performer, Brier cultivated a computer geek look, in contrast to Hodges’ Arrow Shirt Man and Swanson in the traditional turn-ofthe-century suited and bow-tied saloon pianist. When playing outdoors Friday afternoon, Brier boomed his original piece, “Spasmodic,” followed by Joseph Northrup’s “Cannonball” in as loud and frenzied an eruption

Boogie woogie master Carl Sonny Leyland, left, and Tom Brier improvised a two-piano performance of “Monday Morning Blues” for the final evening concert at the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com as seemed humanly possible. Some performances toyed with classical themes. Richard Dowling at Thursday night’s concert played “Charleston Claude” by Vincent Johnson, a rag version of Debussy’s “Clair de

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Lune.” Bryan Wright and Barnhart played a two-piano version of Con Conrad’s “Moonlight” (1921), a takeoff on Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” William McNally, who won the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest in Memphis last month and completed his doctorate last year, applied modern music dissonance, fluid changes between keys and partial tone rows in his original piece “Black Unicorn,” showing ragtime is not petrified in the simple tunes and harmonies of its day a century ago. Many performances painted pictures. Jack Rummell played his piece “Waiting for the Zenith” (1985), written while waiting for his Zenith computer to arrive — it never did — that had the feel of a horse on a slow trot. His performance of Clarence Woods’ “Sleepy Hollow Rag” (1918) evoked rain lightly running down a sidewalk. The most evocative piece of the festival came Thursday

night when Holland and Barnhart played a tribute to frequent festival performer and composer Glenn Jenks, who died unexpectedly at age 69 earlier this year. They played Jenks’ “Planxty Jim Stewart,” a Scottish tinged adagio requiem. As Holland intoned the folk song shaped repeated foundation tune, Barnhart sounded the harmonic counter melody at the top of the keyboard, a bell-like line as if angels were singing. The festival had its share of pleasant surprises. Daniel Souvigney, now 15 and playing at the festival since age 11, played Vincent Youman’s “Tea for Two” (1925), the simplest of song structures augmented with as much jazzy syncopation and amplified harmony as possible, in the end spilling off the top of the keyboard, a virtuoso showing for a pianist of any age. Previously unseen performers like riverboat veteran Jazzou Jones provided new faces to enjoy. The CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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surprise newcomer of the year was French boogie master Sébastien Troendlé. Playing with polish and virtuosity, Troendlé also flashed an inviting ear-to-ear grin, charmed with his French accent and performed on a large exercise ball which he carried most places, a most unconventional calling card which he uses to accommodate an old back injury. One of the biggest revelations came in a symposium on Brun Campbell, the only white student of Scott Joplin, who lived until 1952. With the death of Campbell’s daughter, an antique dealer who cleaned out her estate found three boxes of Brun’s memorabilia, including unpublished music. Novelist Larry Carp, who had used Campbell as a character in two books, acquired the effects. His new book on Campbell, including much undiscovered information, sold out at the festival. No ensembles were hired to play this year. Holland had hoped to hire one group but grant money had not come through. “That’s part of the heritage of ragtime music that needs to be perpetuated,” Holland said. “My budget has been very tight. For my first year, I wanted to play it safe. Hiring a seven-piece band is like hiring seven separate musicians. I have to look at how do I get the best bang for the buck.” The band that played this year at the ragtime dances came from pianists who also play other instruments. This “Junkyard Band,” as Majchrzak called it last year, performed well as a pick-up ensemble for the dance sessions, which were held during the afternoon instead of in competition with evening concerts. Holland felt both worked well. The festival also featured fewer song performances, making the ones offered even more special. Morath wrote a new verse to his “Temporary Baby, Don’t You Try To Permanent Me,” for Sue Keller to perform with Barnhart on Saturday night. Morath, who doesn’t play any more, joined teen pianist Ramona Baker, a student of featured performer Virginia Tichenor, to recite the lyrics to Benjamin Johnson Harney’s 1896 story song of bad deeds, “Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose.” The festival’s top honor for promoting and preserving ragtime was awarded to “Perfessor” Bill Edwards, performer, symposium coordinator and author of the comprehensive ragpiano.com website who is working on the most comprehensive book to date on women ragtime composers. Edwards was in tears when the award was presented at the Saturday evening concert. He explained that he had lost his daughter this past year after an 18-month battle with oral cancer. He accepted the award by playing Eubie Blake’s pensive “Memories of You.” In one of the happy accidents of the year, the festival abandoned its long practice of having a paid program book for a free flier listing the concert schedule and bios of the principal performers. In a further consolidation for next year, Holland announced the 2017 festival would begin on Thursday, dropping to a three-day event. He was pleased to report this year had no real disappointments, and he even guessed well on concert lengths, shaped by his bookings. Holland planned to spend the drive back to Texas pondering next year’s festival and how to expand on this year’s successes.

A band of pianists who also play other instruments came together to provide a band for the ragtime dances at the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com Tom Brier’s big booming sound made his style ideal for performing under the Stark Pavilion tent at the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/ timesnews@ monett-times. com

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Bill Edwards, left, fought off tears as he received the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation Award for 2016, presented by Brian Hollard, festival artistic director. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

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Jeff Barnhart called performers up to the stage for the big Saturday afternoon finale at the Stark Pavilion. At the piano are Brian Wright and Richard Dowling. At rear: Daniel Souvigney, Frank LiVolsi, Jazzou Jones, Bill Edwards on the bass and Barnhart. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Martin Spitznagel, left, and Brian Wright, right, emerged from under coverings after playing “Maple Leaf Rag” blindfolded in front of an audience, while other pianists pushed their pianos to displace their fingering. Amazingly they ended in the right spot, as the audience’s cheers attest. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Pianists Jeff Barnhart, left, and Brian Holland, right, reprised their duo piano finale for the Saturday afternoon at the Scott Joplin Festival, with a little extra help from washboard specialist Mike Schwimmer, center. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

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Pianist William McNally played “Soirée Macabre” by Carter Pan, a student of William Bolcolm and William Albright, a piece McNally said could serve as “a ragtime soundtrack to ‘The Shining.’” Murray Bishoff/times-news@ monett-times.com

Part of a three-panel exhibit shown at the Scott Joplin Festival showing how ragtime influenced the evolution of American popular music. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Max Morath, the Grand Old Man of ragtime, served as master of ceremonies at the Thursday night concert at the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

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Violinist David Reffkin, left, and pianist Dave Majchrzak made the impressive performance of playing Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” backwards. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

French pianist Sébastien Troendlé, sitting on his exercise ball, played vigorous boogies for the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Tulsa pianist Donald Ryan performed several pieces by George Gershwin at the Friday afternoon concert of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@

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Dick Zimmerman displayed the cover art to E.J. Stark’s “Chicago Tango,” one of the last pieces to come from the Stark company at the end of the ragtime era. Murray

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Couple caught in the middle of impending family affair

EAR ABBY: My fiance, “Rick,” and I have been together for years and recently got engaged. We are over the moon about it, and genuinely in love. However, this exciting time in our lives has been met with some difficulties. We recently learned Rick’s mother has been having an affair, which makes for a very uncomfortable situation. My future mother-in-law doesn’t know we know. Rick’s father came to us for help because he suspects she’s cheating. She engages with this man publicly by texting, calling, etc. when we spend time with her, so I avoid her because I don’t want any part of it. It’s hard to ignore because we live with Rick’s family. He believes we should say nothing. I spoke to our priest about it because I am so deeply disturbed by her behavior and was told to “pray for them.” I’m worried this will be a negative influence on my fiance and me, and that by remaining quiet we have become part of her lie. What should I do? — CLEAN CONSCIENCE IN THE EAST DEAR CLEAN CONSCIENCE: Listen to the advice you received from your priest. Pray for your almost in-laws, but do not involve yourself in their marital problems. If Rick’s father approaches

what happened, but I still feel upset and angry toward them whenever I see my cat’s picture by her urn on my memory shelf. Am I wrong for feeling this way? — NOT FEELING PURRFECT

JEANNE PHILLIPS DEAR ABBY you again for help, tell him that he needs to discuss his suspicions with his wife because that’s the only way his problems will be resolved. DEAR ABBY: I lost my favorite cat a year ago to kidney disease. I had noticed she wasn’t doing well, but when I told my parents, so we could take her to the veterinarian, they insisted she was fine. They said she didn’t need to see the vet because her ailments were just age. They refused to have her examined until it was too late, and by then, the vet’s attempts to help her only weakened her. She died in my arms on the way home. I am devastated. She was my therapy animal and she helped me combat my anxiety disorders for over seven years. When she died, my family seemed to be suddenly struck with grief, even though they ignored her most of the time. This makes me angry because I feel their hesitation to take her to the vet and refusal to listen to me are what killed her. I’ve forgiven them for

DEAR NOT FEELING PURRFECT: Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your cat. What happened to her is regrettable, but holding a grudge won’t help. What might help would be for your parents to get you another therapy cat, and I’m advising you to suggest it. DEAR ABBY: My daughter recently had her first child (my first grandchild), and I am wondering if there’s any protocol regarding the first visit. Should I wait until my daughter invites me, or should I just tell

her I want to come? I’m afraid it would be rude to just invite myself before she’s ready to show off her newborn. — BABY STEPS IN VIRGINIA DEAR BABY STEPS: Give your daughter some time to rest and for her and her husband/partner to establish a routine, and then ask when it would be convenient for you to come and if she’d like you to help out in any way. I’m sure that approach would be better received than an announcement. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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