Libretto by the composer.
"Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc."--Label.
"[The] original 1911 materials for the opera were almost entirely destroyed in the early 1960s. But here now is an authentic historically-correct reconstruction ..."--Container.
Compact discs.
Program notes by Rick Benjamin, biographical notes on the performers, selected bibliography and discography, synopsis, and libretto (109 p. : ill.) bound in container.
Includes, as appendix: Bowing music, themes from the opera in one-step tempo (2003), by Rick Benjamin; and the libretto preface read by Scott Joplin's closest living relative, grandniece Mrs. LaErma White of Texarkana, Ark.
Janinah Burnett, Anita Johnson, sopranos ; AnnMarie Sandy, mezzo-soprano ; Robert Mack, Chauncey Packer, Phumzile Sojola, tenors ; Todd Payne, Edward Pleasant, baritones ; Darren Stokes, Frank Ward, Jr., bass-baritones ; Frederick Jackson, bass ; the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and Singers ; Rick Benjamin, conductor.
Recorded May 31-June 2, 2011, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.
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