They All Play Ragtime [SEP] original network
They All Play Ragtime
They All Play Ragtime was a Canadian historical documentary television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1981.
Production.
This series documented the history of ragtime music and its performers such as
Eubie Blake, Max Morath, Dick Wellstood, Milton Kaye and Dick Hyman
Performances from the Canadian Brass and the Nexus percussion group were included during the series.
Scheduling.
This half-hour series was broadcast on Sundays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 3 May to 7 June 1981
all-black stock company and school for actors, an orchestra able to play ragtime and opera with equal brilliance, and a repertoire of original musical comedies." Robert T Motts, founded the theatre, and brought it to prominence by presenting an all black company, seeking out an affluent interracial audience, and using his establishment for social causes. Mott died in 1911, and after that the theater faded but he had established a new pattern of successful black enterprise.
History.
Following a 1901 trip to the Parisian