A Syncopated March and Two Step. Having led a mainly itinerant life since leaving home three years earlier, at the age of seventeen Joplin made "Honest John" Turpin's Silver Dollar ragtime saloon in St. Louis the centre of his work life. The title of Joplin's 'Search-Light Rag - A Syncopated March and Two Step' (1907) is a tribute to Turpin's two musician brothers. The story is that Thomas Million and Charlie travelled in 1881 to the town of Searchlight, Nevada to seek their fortune mining gold, (although we are not told if they succeeded). Revisiting his early career to find inspiration for superbly crafted music is an endearing quality: the forthright character and in the final section, the high, syncopated 'crazy chords', as they were known, make for a most attractive and invigorating work.
- ISMN: 9790570661497 (M570661497)