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Back in the Good Old Days EIGHTY YEARS AGO June 28-July 4, 1935 • On June 27, Barry County Probate Judge Dan B. Meador, just after driving a golf ball from the No. 8 tee at the Monett golf course, was shot in the head by an unseen assailant, possibly behind a tree at the No. 6 hole.

By July 3, Meador began speaking to doctors at the West Hospital. Lawrence Coffey, 18, of Butterfield, confessed to a robbery attempt where he lost his nerve after the shooting.

• On July 2, between 30 and 40 Federal Emergency Relief Administration laborers armed with picks and shovels resumed work on Kelly Creek, clearing debris out of the creek, deepening and widening the bed from Ninth Street east to the ice plant.

SEVENTY YEARS AGO June 28-July 4, 1945 • On June 28, Monett Post No. 4207 of Veterans of Foreign Wars was organized at Monett City Hall with 17 charter members.

George Stice was installed as the first commander.

Membership is based on having earned an honorable campaign medal for service in one of the military branches.

• Indications pointed to an unusually quiet Fourth of July observance in Monett. Stores, offices, banks, city offices and business houses generally were closed for the entire day. No special observance of the day was made other than the picnic gathering at the city park, sponsored by the local chapter of the American War Dads for members of the organization, the War Moms and all who have children in

service.

SIXTY YEARS AGO June 21-27, 1955 • Dairy Day Festival in Monett began with a parade down Broadway on June 23, leading up to the Miss Maid of Milk contest, which included 26 candidates. Margaret Berry of rural Mt. Vernon won the crown. Ermel Stever and his Turkey Mountain Gang from Cassville provided a program at the park amphitheater.

• Monett became a convention city on June 26 as twirlers registered for the second annual state baton twirling clinic and sixth annual state baton twirling contest, under the direction of Homer Lee. As many as 75 contestants are expected.

SIXTY YEARS AGO June 28-July 4, 1955 • State Highway Department officials have been in Monett the past two weeks acquiring right-of-way for rerouting Highway 60 through the south edge of the city, skirting around the business district. Steps are part of an elaborate plan for “straightening out” Highway 60 in southwest Missouri. Plans now call for closing the entrance to the city park off Highway 37, leaving only the entrance on South Central Avenue and placing a blinker caution light at Central.

• A crowd of 6,000 people attended the greatest array of fireworks ever displayed in Monett on July 4. The day-long program climaxed in a $1,000 fireworks show at the Jaycess Athletic Field, 10 percent more fireworks than last year. Attorney Edward B. Sweeney gave

the patriotic address.

FIFTY YEARS AGO June 28-July 4, 1965 • On June 30, members of the Monett City Park Board recommended that the Monett City Council replace sand greens with grass greens at the municipal golf course.

• The Monett Junior Chamber of Commerce on July 1 voted to sponsor a competitive swimming team for local youths who will hold their first meet at the Monett pool this summer. Lon Gallup, supervisor of the Monett Youth Council, said there is sufficient interest and talent among Youth Council swimmers to justify a competitive team.

FORTY YEARS AGO June 28-July 4, 1975 • Mike Garrett, Missouri public safety director, announced the selection of a six chairmen for a task force to assist in the development of a Missouri Action Plan for Public Safety. One of those Garrett named was W.R. “Dick” Vermillion, a Monett native who had served on the Board of Probation and Parole since 1968, to lead the police task force.

• Missouri Lieutenant Governor William Phelps offered the patriotic address at Monett’s second annual Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration at the city park. Music was provided by the Morlan Family Quartet, county musician Robbie England, ragtime pianist James Tipling, the Messenger Quartet.

THIRTY YEARs AGO June 28-July 4, 1985 • Land clearing operations for a new 125,000 square foot addition to the

Completely outfitted with two-way radio and a powerful motor, Monett’s new police car in June 1955 was a Chevrolet two-door. Originally all black, the car was given a snappy two-tone look with the top painted white. The new car replaced the 1953 Ford used by the department for the past two years. It was purchased from Mix Davis Chevrolet Company of Monett, who submitted the low bid of $760, which included the trade-in of the old car. Police Chief Dan Macdonald prepared to enter the new car.

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EFCO Corporation plant at Bridle Lane and County Road have been completed and construction started to double the plant’s manufacturing space. The new building will house a new anodizing line and a much enlarged painting facility.

• Area residents bid farewell to Railson DeCarvalho, a boy with crippled legs discovered two years ago by Sister Rita Witt in the jungles of Brazil. After 15 months in the Ozarks, “Ha” returned home at 64 pounds, up from 34, with legs strong enough to walk a few steps with his braces when he could not walk at all before.

TWENTY YEARS AGO June 28-July 4, 1995 • Jean Berg of Mt. Vernon has been named the new director of the Barry-Lawrence Regional Library. She

succeeds David Doennig, who left the post under pressure after 22 years.

• After months of debate, the Monett City Council adopted a new purchasing policy.

Previously ordinances said all purchases made over $100 needed a purchase order and all over $500 required full council action. Purchases were being approved after the fact. The new ordinance requires advance approval for items costing at least $25,000, authorizes utilities and street/park purchases up to $5,000 by department head, and others up to $500 prior to approval by

a commissioner.

TEN YEARS AGO June 28-July 4, 2005 • The Monett Chamber of Commerce’s Junior Livestock Show stretched into two days this year to become the biggest show in the 58 years of the event. Premiums totaling $2,575.81 were paid out to exhibitors, all of which came from blue ribbons.

• State Representative Jack Goodman provided the patriotic address at Monett’s Fourth of July celebration. Opening with a pre-dawn thunderstorm, the day closed with the most perfect conditions imaginable for a summer day.

ON THE COVER: Boogie woogie specialist Carl Sonny Leyland sang “Deep Ellum Blues,” named for the historic African American neighborhood in downtown Dallas, Texas, home for several legendary blues singers, during the Friday night concert at the Scott Joplin Festival.

Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

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Scott Joplin Festival continues Missouri’s ragtime salute

Despite adversity, 2015 Sedalia event creates great music

By Murray Bishoff times-news@monett-times.com

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usic festivals this summer have suddenly become endangered.

The World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest in Peoria, Ill., ended in May after 41 years. The Blind Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival in Columbia was cancelled this year. The Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival, the biggest festival anywhere of its kind celebrating its 41st year in 2015, had significant organizational issues unlike the others, and yet pulled off an impressive four-day event despite difficulties.

Sedalia is ground zero for the beginning of ragtime, America’s original music, where publisher John Stark first released the works of Scott Joplin in 1899 and established what he called “classic ragtime.” The Scott Joplin Festival has been held there annually since 1983.

No one saw the festival’s problems coming this year. Kyle Siegel, the Scott Joplin Foundation director, unexpectedly did not return for a third year. The board recruited Tabitha Lazenby, longtime Scott Joplin Foundation board member, to carry on. Eight weeks before the festival, as the final organizational activity moved into full gear, Lazenby, a school teacher and young mother, killed herself for reasons that seemed to have little to do with her new duties. Lazenby’s death sent shock waves through the Scott Joplin organization, which operates much like an extended family.

“I like to come into the festival with 80 to 90 percent of the work done,” said David Majchrzak, the festival’s artistic director for the sixth year. “This year it was more like 60 percent done.

The [eight] board members really stepped up. They were doing their jobs and something else.”

Terri Ballard, the executive director of the Liberty Center Association for the Arts, which runs a major performance facility downtown once used by

A Dixieland jazz band, formed of mostly of ragtime piano players on different instruments, appeared for the third year at the Scott Joplin Festival as a variation on the festival’s traditional sound. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com the Scott Joplin Festival, stepped in as interim executive director.

With everyone more or less mobilized, the festival time arrived suddenly, and with it came the rain. For the first day, all the events take place at State Fair Community College, and everything ran well. The second day, on Thursday, a squall blew in and shut down the outdoor pavilion where the Maple Leaf Club, the source for the name of the “Maple Leaf Rag,” once stood. Organizers pulled the sound equipment and never reopened the site. Performers relocated to the Liberty Center, though the word spread spottily.

“Thursday was a long day,” Majchrzak said. “Friday and Saturday went well. This was the first time anyone saw cracks in our product. Usually nobody knows if we have problems. It’s been a hectic six weeks.”

People come to the Scott Joplin Festival for the extraordinary music, and it was available in abundance.

There were many times when audiences practically held their breath as the music pushed aside the rest of the world.

At the Thursday evening concert, Canadian pianist Mimi Blais played “Lamb Chop,” a tribute piece to ragtime composer Joseph Lamb by Blais’ personal friend Larisa Migachyov.

Playing for Lamb’s daughter, Pat Conn, who was in the audience, Blais painted a slow, easy, lyrical picture, a sweet lazy afternoon feel that expanded in big arches and slowed to a delicate finish.

The most overwhelming moment came when pianist Brian Holland at the Saturday evening concert played Irving Berlin’s 1952 song “For the Very First Time,” a slow melancholy piece with an aching feel, amplified by percussionist Danny Coots playing cymbals lightly with brushes and an occasional tap. Holland never identified the piece, saying only, “This is for Tabitha.”

Pensive moments like these are exceptions in the ragtime landscape, better known for boisterous enthusiasm and infectious rhythm.

Almost every concert had its explosive moments. The highlight for fans seeking high energy came at the end of Saturday afternoon, when Jeff Barnhart and Brian Holland took center stage at the Stark Tent in the downtown square. This two-piano duo barreled through such note-showering selections as George Cobb’s 1909 “Rubber Plant Rag,” Nat Ayer’s 1911 “King Chanticleer,” Alex Hill’s 1929 “Stompin’ ‘Em Down” and a layered syncopated version of the Russian folk song “Dark Eyes” that rose from a languid minor melody to volcanic levels and speed before tapering off to a faded finish. The duo also launched audience participation on Fats Waller’s “Rump Roast Serenade” and Papa Charlie Jackson’s 1925 “Shake That Thing” that brought all the performers Continued on Page 6

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SPRINGFIELD: At the Gillioz Theater, 325 Park Central East, Turnpike Troubadours perform at 7:45 p.m. on Saturday. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band plays at 8 p.m. on June 30. Classic Rock Experience, with music by Queen, Styx, Journey, Boston, Led Zeppelin and Elton John at 8 p.m. is presented on July 2.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: Sad Daddy, headed by Maybelles founding member Melissa Carper, plays folk/roots music at 7:30 p.m.

Friday at the Fayetteville Underground, 101 W. Mountain St. At George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson, performing this week are Luke Pruitt and Elise Davis on Thursday; Joe Giles and the Homewreckers, the Odds and Groovement on Friday; and The Big Damn Horns on Saturday.

Song stylist Colbie Caillat performs at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Arkansas Music Pavilion at the Washington County Fairgrounds.

CARTHAGE: At the Woodshed in Cherry’s Art Emporium, 311 S. Main, Patty Johnson performs a free concert during Art Walk at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

JOPLIN: The 35th annual Joplin Pops concludes the Pro Musica concert series with the Fountain City Brass Band performing at 8 p.m. on the Oval on the Missouri Southern STate University campus.

At the Downstream Casino, west of Joplin, performing this week will be Phil McGarrah and Running on Empty with country music on Friday, and Ole Friends with variety and classic rock on Saturday.

MIAMI, Okla.: Country music star John Anderson performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buffalo Run Casino.

Native American artist Joanne Shenandoah performs at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Coleman Theater, 103 N. Main.

TULSA, Okla.: At the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 S. Second St., the acoustic ensemble Vintage Wildflowers perform Celtic, folk and bluegrass on violin, bass and harp at 7 p.m. on June 25 in the Robert LaFortune Studio. Thomas Williams presents a cabaret song of songs about being a hero at 8 p.m. on Saturday in the Robert LaFortune Studio. The Appassionata Duo, playing violin and harp, play pop music from the Beatles to “Bohemian Rhapsody”

at 4 p.m. on Sunday in the Charles Norman Theatre.

At Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main, performing this week are Corey Smith and the Cody Bryan Band on Thursday; plus Hayes Carll and Ryan Culwell on Friday.

At the Brady Theater, 105 W. Brady St., the Turnpike Troubadours and Paul Cauthen perform on Friday.

KANSAS CITY: “Weird Al” Yankovic performs at 7:30 p.m. on June 30 at the Midland Theater, 1228 Main.

At the Power and Light District, 13th and Walnut, Craig Wayne Boyd performs at 7 p.m. on Thursday; the Kongas at 8 p.m. on Friday; and Travis Marvin at 7 p.m. on July 2. Pat Green and the Josh Abbott Band play at 7 p.m. on July 9.

A tribute concert to Alice in Chains is offered at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino.

Ace Frehley performs at 8 p.m. on July 9 at the VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino.

COLUMBIA: At the Missouri Theater, 203 S. Ninth St., the Missouri Symphony plays a concert of music geared at children, including “an instrumental petting zoo,” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. The orchestra also plays at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the Shelter Gardens, 1817 W. Broadway. The orchestra plays a concert of patriotic pops at 7:30 p.m. on July 1 at the Missouri Theater.

Theatrical vocalists Doug Lebreque and Christiane Noll perform Broadway selections at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the Missouri Theater.

ST. LOUIS: Darius Rucker performs with the Brothers Osborne, Brett Eldredge and A Thousand Horses at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Maryland Heights.

“Weird Al” Yankovic performs at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Peabody Opera

AREA THEATRE

A look at area events this week

By Murray Bishoff

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House, 1401 Market St. SPRINGFIELD: Missouri State University’s Tent Theater continues with the second in its 53rd season, the comedy/drama “Sherlock Holmes: the Final Adventure,” opening Thursday with shows running through July 3. Shows run Thursday through Saturday at 8:15 p.m. on the lawn outside of Coger Hall, National and Grand.

OZARK: Ron Boutwell’s play “The Forerunner” about John the Baptist runs through July 4 at the Stained Glass Theater, 1996 W. Evangel.

CARTHAGE: The Stone’s Throw Theatre presents John Patrick’s play “Curious Savage” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday. A meal is available one hour before the show.

TULSA, Okla.: At the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 S. Second St., Stephen Sondheim’s “Into The Woods” is presented at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday in the John H. Williams Theater. Actor Pat Hobbs offers a one-man show recounting firsts in his career at 8 p.m. on Friday in the Robert LaFortune Studio. The Tulsa-based dance company Perpetual Motion offers a show and dance and aerials at 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday in the Liddy Doenges Theatre. JohnTom Knight and Chris Jett’s play “C-C-C-Combo Breaker” is offered at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in the Charles Norman Theatre.

KANSAS CITY: The musical “Pippin” is offered at 8 p.m. on June 30 through next weekend at the Starlight Theater in Swope Park.

The musical “Hairspray” runs through July 12 at the New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster in Overland Park, Kan. “A Year With Frog and Toad” runs through Aug. 2 at the Coterie Theatre, 2450 Grand Blvd.

Nina Raines’ play “Tribes” concludes at the Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” runs at 8 p.m. through July 5 at Southmoreland Park, 47th and Oak St. COLUMBIA: The homicidal comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace” opens Thursday and runs at 7:30 p.m. through July 5 at the Rhynsburger Theater on the University of Missouri campus.

The Columbia Entertainment Company presents the musical “Lucky Stiff,” with shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at 1800 Nelwood Dr. The Stephens College Summer Dance program presents a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at 100 Willis Ave. ST. LOUIS: The Muny continues its season of outdoor theater at Forest Park with the musical “Hairspray,” running through June 30.

Stages St. Louis concludes two productions this weekend. “Smokey Joe’s Café” runs Thursday through Sunday at the Robert Reim Theatre at the Kirkwood

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Community Center, 111 S. Geyer in Kirkwood. Disney’s “The Aristocats” has shows Thursday through Sunday at the Westport Plaza.

Opera Theatre St. Louis concludes its season with Tobias Picker’s “Emmeline” at 8 p.m. on Thursday and 1 p.m. on Saturday; Handel’s “Richard the Lionheart” at 8 p.m. on Friday; Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” at 8 p.m. on Saturday; and Puccini’s “La Rondine” at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Shows run at the Loretto Hilton Center on the Webster University campus in Webster Groves.

AREA FESTIVALS

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. A rally for Kawasaki Vulcan motorcycle enthusiasts concludes Thursday at Best Western Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center.

Wynonna Judd and the Big Noise perform at 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Hard Rock Casino in Catoosa.

TULSA,, Okla.: Comedienne Kathy Griffin performs at 7 p.m. on Friday at the River Spirit Events Center, 8330 Riverside Parkway.

At Expo Square, 4145 E. 21st St., the Morgan Horse Association of Oklahoma offers its Tulsa Summer Classic Thursday through Sunday in the Mustang Arena.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: The Arkansas New Play Festival runs through Sunday.

Performances are at the Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson. Performances include “The Quest for Don Quixote,” based on the Cervantes novel, runs at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday in the Studio Theater; “The Ding-Dong, Or How the French Kiss,” adapted from “Le Dindon” by Georges Feydeau, at 5:30 p.m. on Friday; Lee Blessing’s play “Uncle” at 5 p.m. Sunday; and Qui Nguyen’s play “Dusk” at

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The Artosphere Music Festival continues in various locations. Final performances include the Dover Quartet playing works by Haydn, Ullman and Schumann at 7 p.m. on Friday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 224 N. East Ave. in Fayetteville and the Artosphere Festival Orchestra playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 5 at 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville.

ROGERS, Ark.: The Arkansas Beer and Burger Food Festival with celebrity chef Carla Hall will be held on Thursday and Friday at the Arkansas Music Pavilion on the Washington County Fairgrounds. Craft beer will also be available.

PITTSBURG, Kan.: The 27th annual Southeast Kansas Gas Engine and Tractor Show runs from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday at the Crawford County Historical Museum grounds, on the Highway 69 Bypass outer road. Dan Duling and the Tractor Boys perform live music at 6:30 p.m.

KANSAS CITY: Future Stages Festival runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway. Stage performances and interactive art activities are offered.

Waterfest is offered Friday through Sunday at the Excelsior Springs Memorial Airport.

The Kansas City Nanobrew Festival runs from 2 to 6 p.m. at 1600 Gennessee St. Crawfish Festival runs Friday evening at the City Market, 20 E. Fifth St.

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Murray’s top picks for the week

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Final performances of Springfield Little Theater’s musical “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Landers Theater, 311 E. Walnut. Based on the popular film, the play focuses on two con men living on the French Riviera swindling women. Deciding the area isn’t big enough for both of them, the scoundrels pick a target and determine the winner will stay. But she has other plans.

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Opera in the Ozarks opens its season Friday at the Inspiration Point Pavilion west of Eureka Springs. Performances are with live orchestra and full staging with supertitles. Shows include Rossini’s “Cinderella” on Thursday and July 2; Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffman” on Friday and June 30; and Verdi’s “La Traviata” on Saturday and July 1. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m., continuing through July 17, a great opportunity to see full opera productions at a bargain price. Bring cushions as seats are hard. Rossini’s “Cinderella” is presented indoors at the comfortable Bentonville High School Performing Arts Center at 4 p.m. on Sunday.

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The Rolling Stones perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Despite the difficulties of attending an outdoor venue of this size, opportunities to see the Stones are rare indeed. This will indeed be one of the concerts of the summer and a great opportunity to buy Stones’ memorabilia.

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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Festival: This year’s event featured one of the strongest lineups assembled

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within hearing distance on stage to improvise a verse. Each number brought a hearty round of cheers from the crowd that packed the tent and seating around within a block’s distance.

The Joplin festival again represented a gathering of superstars in the ragtime world. Majchrzak felt the lineup was one of the strongest he had assembled. He credited Ragtime in Tulsa for laying the groundwork to bring in Norwegian pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen, who continued on to Sedalia. Richard Dowling, both a classical and ragtime pianist, and Canadian Mimi Blais were in the area and headed in as well.

“The stars lined up to get this,” Majchrzak said.

Dowling showed his chops on the Thursday night concert. He played Bix Beiderbecke’s 1927 “In the Mist” like a French impressionist piece, with long pauses between phrases that faded in the echoing hall. He glided through Joplin’s 1907 “Rose Leaf Rag” and took a virtuoso romp through Chopin’s “Minute Waltz” that he repeated in a ragged syncopation. On Saturday night, he ended with Zez Confrey’s 1915 “My Pet,” transcribed from a piano roll and released with more notes than one person should have been able to play.

Morton Gunnar Larsen, whose smooth articulate playing offered profound clarity, dazzled from simplicity to the most complex works. In Joplin’s pieces, such as 1909 “Paragon Rag” and the 1915 “Silver Swan Rag,” he injected cre-

scendos to build intense lines that he varied as the pieces progressed.

He showed his breadth by adding uncharacteristic pieces in his repertory, such American Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s 1857 pre-ragtime Latin flavored “Danza” to the stride piano post-ragtime soundscape of Willie “The Lion” Smith’s dreamy “Echoes of Spring,” which Larsen transitioned into Norwegian classical composer Christian Sinding’s song “Rustles of Spring.”

Larsen showed his power on his own “Norwegian Rag No. 5,” known as his “Olympian Rag” for incorporating the folk song used as the theme for the 1952 Olympics in Norway, building a march out of a hymn tune to reach a thundering finale.

The ragtime era, running roughly from 1898 to 1920, had its share of sheer whimsy celebrated by many performers. The Thursday afternoon concert explored late-ragtime excursions into sheer pianism, known as novelty songs. British composer Billy Mayerl was well-represented in flashy pieces like 1938 “Railroad Rhythm,” played by the pianist who seemed to be everywhere, Martin Spitznagel, and Mayerl’s 1933 “Jazzartistrix” and 1938 “Sweet William,” played by British pianist the mercurial Phillip Dyson, who would lose himself in the music and often hum along.

Americans had their showing too in four flashy pieces by novelty specialist Zez Confrey and works by George Gershwin. The supremely polished Adam Swanson performed a suite of

songs from Gershwin’s 1930 Broadway show “Girl Crazy,” adding “You’ve Got What Gets Me” from the 1931 film, not in the original piano arrangement. Frederick Hodges, another pianist distinguished by his breathtaking clarity, played Gershwin’s 1919 “Novelette in Fourths” transcribed from a piano roll. Hodges showed off more of his technique on Felix Arndt’s 1915 “Nola” in a transcription by theater organist Walt Stroney and a piano roll transcription of Adam Carroll’s 1928 “Nanette.”

Period songs known for their silliness made audience favorites, and the more obscure the better. Bryan Wright, who owns 15,000 78 RPM records, dug into his archive to perform the 1935 “No One Has Endurance Like the Man Who Sells Insurance” under the Stark Tent on Saturday. Wright’s wife, Yuko, donned a Marie Antoinette wig to sing “Guillotine Days,” a paean to the entertainment of watching public executions during the French Revolution, from the 1960 album “Sing A Song of Sickness.” Wright and Martin Spitznagel also turned the Sesame Street classic “Rubber Ducky” into a boogie woogie showpiece.

These excursions beyond the standard ragtime repertory followed a trend promoted by Majchrzak in his tenure of transitioning into a general music festival rooted in ragtime. Audiences responded well to the high difficulty performance pieces, turning out in the highest numbers

for the stride piano salute on Friday night.

In this concert, Adam Swanson, who won the Old-Time Piano Playing World Championship in Peoria for an unprecedented fourth time this year and who is studying for a degree at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, played a suite

by Baltimore native Eubie Blake. Stride specialist Paul Asaro worked the field with selections by James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and Donald Lambert’s aptly titled “Jersey Rocket.” Bob Milne, whose career has extended for more than 50 years, showed the technique in a

soft set. His take on W.C. Handy’s “Beale Street Blues” sounded like distant tunes heard down the street at dawn. Meade Lewis’s “Honky Tonk Train Blues” started with the sound of a train in the distance augmented by train rumble from the left hand with a high voiced melody in the right.

The Monett Times Midweek Intriguing original compositions by the performers worked their way into the sets.

The often-bombastic Jeff Barnhart showed his impressionistic side in scenes from his

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Majchrzak scheduled a Christmas concert for Friday afternoon. Except for a handful of exceptional songs, such as Bob Darch’s “There’s a Little Bar in Bethlehem (Pa.)” played by blues specialist Sue Keller, the concert became weird with oddly uninspired playing on too familiar tunes.

On the other hand, for the third year ragtime piano players got together to form a Dixieland jazz band, playing on instruments not second nature to them. The nine-person ensemble mustered a big, rollicking sound inside the Liberty Center on a rainy Saturday morning, to the delight of crowd that kept growing.

The festival stayed grounded with two concerts that illustrated the fundamental musicality of ragtime and its connection to the bigger music world. The Thursday evening concert began a set by Scott Kirby, a masterly tasteful musician, who moved from Joplin

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and Scott Hayden’s 1903 “Something Doing” to David Thomas Roberts’ Caribbean-tinged serenade “Roberto Clemente” and into a Kirby transcription of John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan,” not a ragtime treatment, but straight, showing the solidity of the music around Joplin’s time.

Violinist David Reffkin, playing with Majchrzak’s piano accompaniment, gave a chamber music treatment to several pieces, including Joseph Lamb’s 1915 “Contentment Rag” and 10 college songs, written in the ragtime period with progressive levels of ragtime syncopation in them.

The Saturday afternoon concert focused solely on Joplin’s work.

Here the artists with real polish shined. Scott Kirby, whose interpretations of Joplin’s work set the standard, illustrated the profound clarity and lyricism of Joplin’s writing in the 1901 “Peacherine Rag,” the 1908 “Sugar Cane Rag” and Joplin’s often overplayed Mexican serenade, “Solice” from 1909, which Kirby played with taste and without drag.

Sue Keller and Richard Dowling collaborated in a two-piano version of a train crash in the dramatic “Great Crush Collision March” from 1896. Rhode Island pianist Frank LiVolsi offered a touching take to Joplin’s 1914 “Magnetic Rag,” his last published piece with its enigmatic cheerfulness in some of Joplin’s most difficult days.

Majchrzak, as has been his tradition, ended the festival at the Saturday night concert playing this year’s showcase song, Joplin’s “Silver Swan Rag,” a late piece released only on piano roll that Continued on Page 9

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Violinist David Reffkin and pianist Dave Majchrzak provided the only non-piano selections at a major concert at this year’s Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@

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British pianist Phillip Dyson vocalized as he played George Gershwin’s Second Prelude at the Thursday afternoon concert. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Adam Swanson, winner for the fourth year in a row at the Old Time Piano Playing Championship, performed with Frederick Hodges on two pianos Saturday morning under the Stark Tent at the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Festival: Director announces he’s stepping down, names his successor

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had been lost until 1970.

Crowd sizes seemed down somewhat from last year, but attendance remained high at the paid concerts.

The weather hampered attendance at the free outdoor concerts.

The Scott Joplin Foundation announced two recognitions during the festival. Janice Cleary of Omaha, Neb., received the foundation’s

Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award.

A fan of “Ragtime Bob” Darch, Cleary amassed and catalogued what may be the largest ragtime archive in existence, containing 50,000 pieces of music. Both Jeff Barnhart and Adam Swanson have dipped into her collection to create showcase recordings of works from 1910 and 1912. Cleary’s family accompanied her

to Sedalia for the honor.

Larry Melton, the first president of the festival in 1974, was named director emeritus for the foundation’s board.

Melton is presently working on the Ragtime Heritage Project, which will be the closest thing to a general ragtime museum anywhere. The project is planned for exhibit in a new addition at the Liberty Center.

At the end of the last concert, Majchrzak announced he was stepping down after six years as the festival’s artistic director, a decision he made a year ago.

Considering the difficulties the festival faced this year, Majchrzak expressed relief that he had not left sooner, placing less experienced people in charge. Majchrzak introduced Brian Holland

as his successor.

“Brian’s philosophy is not much different from mine,” Majchrzak said.

“There was more anxiety when I came on because I was the first artistic director who was not a known performer. Brian is a musician’s musician. People know with Brian the quality will be the same. That makes it exciting.”

Majchrzak’s advice to

Holland was simple.

“We know how all these people play and what they play,” Majchrzak said. “Don’t have them do what they’re not comfortable with. Use their strengths.”

As is the regular practice of festival organizers, the board will study surveys distributed during the event and meet later this month to begin planning for 2016.

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Many performers gathered around for the Saturday afternoon concert under the Stark Tent for the outdoor concert finale at the Scott Joplin Festival. Pictured, from left, are Bill Edwards on bass, Adam Swanson, Jeff Barnhart leading the sing-along, Brian Holland and Dave Majchrzak. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Pianists Richard Dowling and Sue Keller performed Scott Joplin’s musical recreation of a simulated train collision, where people actually died, the uncharacteristically dramatic “Great Crush Collision March,” during the all-Joplin concert at Sedalia. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Mimi Blais played Tom Turpin’s “St. Louis Rag,” around which she wove passages from “Chopsticks” and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 at the Thursday evening concert at the Scott Joplin Festival. Murray Bishoff/times-

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A regular feature at the Scott Joplin Festival is the annual costume contest.

The Syncopation Sisters won first place in the group division as “A Ragtime Band in Search of a Theme.” Pictured, from left, are: Rhonda Foster Hatchett from Abilene, Texas; Sandra Foster Lovas from San Francisco, Calif.; Laura Foster Ikel from Dallas, Texas; and Krista Jones from Edmond, Okla. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

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In a moment of giddy playfulness, performers under the Stark Tent at the Scott Joplin Festival broke into a can-can dance during the song “Guillotine Days” on the final afternoon of the Scott Joplin Festival. Pictured, from left, are: Daniel Souvigny, Yuko Wright, Sue Keller, Dave Majchrzak, Bill Edwards and Mimi Blais. Murray Bishoff/

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The masterful Morton Gunner Larsen provided drama in his performances of Scott Joplin’s music during the Saturday afternoon concert at the Scott Joplin Festival.

Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Sue Keller vamped up her role as a chanteuse singing “Georgia On My Mind” while Jeff Barnhart accompanied her during the final concert at the Scott Joplin Festival.

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By NICOLE WINFIELD RACHEL ZOLL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — In a sweeping environmental manifesto aimed at spurring concrete action, Pope Francis called for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he described as a “structurally perverse” economic system where the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an “immense pile of filth.”

Francis framed climate change as an urgent moral issue in his eagerly anticipated encyclical, blaming global warming on an unfair, fossil fuel-based industrial model that harms the poor most.

Citing Scripture, his predecessors and bishops from around the world, the pope urged people of every faith and even no faith to undergo an awakening to save God’s creation for future generations.

The document released Thursday was a stinging indictment of big business and climate doubters alike, meant to encourage courageous changes at U.N. climate negotiations later this year, in domestic politics and in everyday life.

“It is not enough to balance, in the medium term, the protection of nature with financial gain, or the preservation of the environment with progress,” he writes. “Halfway measures simply delay the inevitable disaster. Put simply, it is a matter of redefining our notion of progress.”

Environmental scientists said the first-ever encyclical, or teaching document, on the environment could have a dramatic effect on the climate debate, lending the moral

authority of the immensely popular Francis to an issue that has long been cast in purely political, economic or scientific terms.

“This clarion call should guide the world toward a strong and durable universal climate agreement in Paris at the end of this year,” said Christiana Figueres, the U.N.’s top climate official. “Coupled with the economic imperative, the moral imperative leaves no doubt that we must act on climate change now.”

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist, said the encyclical is a “game-changer in making people think about this.”

“It’s not politics anymore,” he said, adding that science is often difficult to understand but that people respond to arguments framed by morality and ethics.

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“The simple reality is that energy is the essential building block of the modern world,” said Thomas Pyle of the Institute of Energy Research, a conservative free-market group. “The application of affordable energy makes everything we do — food production, manufacturing, health care, transportation, heating and air conditioning — better.”

Francis said he hoped his effort would lead ordinary people in their daily lives and decision-makers at the Paris U.N. climate meetings to a wholesale change of mind and heart, saying “both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor” must now be heard.

“This vision of ‘might is right’ has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity, since resources end up in the hands of the first comer or the most powerful: the winner takes all,” he writes. “Completely at odds with this model are the ideals of harmony, justice, fraternity and peace as proposed by Jesus.”

The encyclical “Laudato Si,” (Praise Be) is 191 pages of pure Francis.

It’s a blunt, readable booklet full of zingers that will make many conservatives and climate doubters squirm, including in the U.S. Congress, where Francis will deliver the first-ever papal address in September. It has already put several U.S. presidential candidates on the hot seat since some Republicans, Catholics among them, doubt the science behind global warming and have said the pope should stay out of the debate.

“I don’t think we should politicize our faith,” U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, a Catholic convert, said on the eve of the encyclical’s release. “I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm.”

Yet one of Francis’ core points is that there really is no distinction between human beings, their faith and the environment.

“Everything is related, and we human beings are united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage, woven together by the love God has for each of his creatures and which also unites us in

fond affection with brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth,” he writes.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, whose office wrote the first draft of the encyclical, acknowledged that the pope was no expert in science, although he did work as a chemist before entering the seminary.

But he said Francis was fully justified in speaking out about an important issue and had consulted widely. He asked if politicians would refrain from talking about science just because they’re not scientific experts.

Francis accepts as fact that the world is getting warmer and that human activity is mostly to blame.

“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” he writes.

Citing the deforestation of the Amazon, the melting of Arctic glaciers and the deaths of coral reefs, he rebukes “obstructionist” climate doubters who “seem mostly to be concerned with masking the problems or concealing their symptoms.” And he blames politicians for listening more to oil industry interests than Scripture or common sense.

He praises a “less is more” lifestyle, one that shuns air conditioners and gated communities in favor of car pools, recycling and being in close touch with the poor and marginalized. He calls for courageous, radical and farsighted policies to transition the world’s energy supply from fossil fuels to renewable sources, saying mitigation schemes like the buying and selling of carbon credits won’t solve the problem and are just

a “ploy which permits maintaining the excessive consumption of some countries and sectors.”

What is needed, he says, is a “bold cultural revolution.”

“Nobody is suggesting a return to the Stone Age, but we do need to slow down and look at reality in a different way, to appropriate the positive and sustainable progress which has been made, but also to recover the values and the great goals swept away by our unrestrained delusions of grandeur,” Francis writes.

Some have dismissed the Argentine pope as pushing what they call Latin Americanstyle socialism, but he answered those critics just this week, saying it was not a sign of communism to care for the poor.

Within the church, many conservative Catholics have questioned the pope’s heavy emphasis on the environment and climate change over other issues such as abortion and marriage.

Francis does address abortion and population issues briefly in the encyclical, criticizing those in the environmental movement who show concern for preserving nature but not human lives. The Catholic Church has long been at odds with environmentalists over how much population growth degrades the environment.

John Schellnhuber, the scientist credited with coming up with the goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees F), says it’s a “myth” that a growing population is responsible for environmental decay.

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