![]() ![]() Ragtime - A genre of musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically steady bass. However, these groups are distinguished by subgroups of purists who generally agree on, and stand by, a precise definition: Like jazz, another distinctly American musical art form, ragtime's composers, practitioners, and admirers each see its boundaries differently. Ragtime's popularity promptly spread to Europe and there, as in America, soon became a fad. Ragtime seemed to emanate primarily from the southern and midwestern states with the majority of activity occurring in Missouri - although the East and West coasts also had their share of composers and performers. The popularity and demand for ragtime also boosted sale of pianos and greatly swelled the ranks of the recording industry. By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions. Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress. dream like, and then the English verse comes in and I hang on every word and feel the intense sadness.The Ragtime Nightmare by Tom Turpin (St. Having spoken of the heavy emotion of the album, That'll Be The Day has enough bounce and power to keep the ship afloat, and the air guitar is whipped out and plugged in.and Give One Heart is so lovely and lilting it cruises along before another blow comes in. The video of Linda recording the track in the studio has added to it's weight for me in recent years, when I first saw it about 3 or 4 years ago. Lose Again hits me like a thunderbolt every time, still. It has appealed to me continually over the years, finding new things in it, relating to it, sadly smiling with it, crying with it. The raw emotion of it is never far from the surface but it's never desperate, it's more like a sad resignation to a heart broken so many times. It's funny but I never really considered Hasten Down The Wind as downbeat or morose, but it clearly is, I just considered it a beautiful work standing alone. I always wondered if the guy on the horse recognized himself in the photo. Someone else's hand was airbrushed in-the wife of Russell or Kosh I think? I can't find the source now but I definitely recall Russell saying somewhere that one of the hands on the cover is not Linda's because the position of her hand in the photo made it look like a claw. My father owned a horse ranch.) It was a happy accident, or, thinking about it differently, it was a captured moment, which we didn't know was coming but were prepared to get. Right before I took the photograph, Linda yelled at me not to take the picture because it would scare the horse. ![]() I had nothing to do with them and had no idea they were there. "The horse and rider were there of their own accord, racing along the beach. I loved for the elements: the seashell in her hair, her raised finger, and the ocean." I was waiting for later in the day when the sun would start to set, and I could introduce the hand-held portable strobes and mix the light sources during 'magic hour.' This could produce unexpected but sometimes magical results. And so we started running up and down the beach. ![]() John, frustrated, suggested everybody get up and move. ![]() She had finished makeup, and I began to take pictures, which were listless. "John Kosh.can take some direct credit both for this shot and to some degree for "Hasten Down the Wind." This session-another 'photo-shoot'-was at Linda's home in The Colony in Malibu. Here's what Ethan Russell says in "The Inside Story," the stories that accompany his new book "Ethan Russell Photographs": Malibu Colony is only about a mile long so it's possible that they started out in front of Linda's house and wound up in front of the producer's place. ![]()
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