Ragtime developed as a popular musical style at the end of the 19th Century. It has its origins in the saloon bars and dance halls of African-American communities. Ragtime music was written down ...

In all three, you get a crime. Coalhouse doesn’t want what’s best, he wants what’s right. From Ragtime: “America was in the dawn of the Twentieth Century, a nation of steam shovels ...

He also won Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for Ragtime. Additionally, he received the Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Ragtime and The ...