Cole Porter's only attempt at a serious composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota, when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Création du monde. Both pieces w...
Cello and Piano.
Adapted from the well-known piano composition Graceful Ghost Rag, here is William Bolcom's own very elegant and effective version for symphonic band. Written in a moderate ragtime tempo, this work uti...
I came to know of this piece when hearing famous Norwegian ragtime pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen playing it at a concert with the Norwegian Navy Band Bergen. I was struck by it's melancholic beauty and...
Premiered by the Philadelphia-based saxophone quartet PRISM, this one-minute work is both jaunty and delicate.
Arrangements of three of Bolcom's famous piano rags: Poltergeist, Graceful Ghost, and Incineratorag.