Adam Swanson LIVE (“Authentic Ragtime”)
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2023
- Adam Swanson LIVE (“Authentic Ragtime”)
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The last composer that Adam played was Tom Brier. Tom was in a horrible car accident 2016 when he was rear ended by a truck and suffered spinal cord injury up to the neck. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but even though Adam did not mention this, I could see from the way he spoke about him that Adam was well aware of Tom's on-going struggles. I think Tom is still alive as of June 2024. Now that we're in the new era of Google where it doesn't help me find information but only directs me to pay sites, I couldn't get a reliable update on Tom's condition.
Adam, you're my hero. I play the piano, Chopin etudes and all, but your rags never fail to make me smile!
Live performance 1/22/2023
Timestamps:
0:00:03 Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin 1899)
0:04:31 - 0:05:29 Swipsey Cakewalk (Scott Joplin with Arthur Marshall 1900)
0:09:08 - 0:09:59 How Reuben Does the Rag (Charles E Cone 1902)
0:14:23 - 0:15:06 The Favorite (Scott Joplin 1904)
0:18:42 - 0:20:20 Missouri Waltz (Lee Edgar "Jelly" Settle 1914);
0:23:14 XL Rag (Lee Edgar "Jelly" Settle 1903)
0:27:27 - 0:28:29 Mandy's Broadway Stroll (Thomas E Broady 1898)
0:32:10 - 0:32:39 Ragtime Nightingale (Joseph F Lamb 1915)
0:37:41 - 0:38:01 Bohemia Rag (Joseph F Lamb 1919)
0:43:02 - 0:43:16 Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home (Hughie Cannon 1902)
0:47:12 - 0:47:29 Ragtime Dance (Scott Joplin 1902 and 1906)
0:52:22 - 0:52:54 Car-Barlick Acid (Clarence C Wiley 1901)
0:55:53 - 0:56:10 New Era Rag (James Scott 1919)
1:00:15 - 1:00:52 Junk Man Rag (Luckey Roberts 1913)
1:04:44 - 1:04:59 Railroad Blues (Luckey Roberts 1920)
1:08:35 - 1:08:54 Whispering (John Schonberger 1919)
1:12:30 - 1:13:02 Tickled to Death (Charles Hunter 1899)
1:16:53 - 1:17:04 Temptation Rag (Henry Lodge 1909)
1:20:25 - 1:21:07 Family Lines System (David Thomas Roberts 1980)
1:25:29 - 1:26:12 Elephant Tracks (Tom Brier 2004)
thank you !!
Great sounds. Enjoyed you at Blackwood and Slippery Rock University 9/2023
Thanks for a wonderful concert Adam ! Great listening as always 🙂
Wow, what a fantastic concert Adam! Loved Ragtime Nightingale! Hoping one day for Topliner Rag too - another beautiful Rag! :)
So glad I found you! Love your playing. You are so very talented!
Good theme. The classics oldies of ragtime. Quite enjoyable.
Saw you recently at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, CA. Awesome show. Best part was you saying you were playing Eubie Blake songs on the exact same piano as Eubie Blake played at the same venue about 50 years earlier. Keep it up!
So much wonderful music, so beautifully played - I’m lost for words! A fabulous concert thank you Adam - look forward to next week’s Disney tunes.
This is always on my playlist!
Well done Adam
thank you so much!! great concert.
As usual a great concert Adam.
Great ragtime artist and easy on the eyes as well.
Amazing
Greate !!!
This is delightful. Can you do super thanks?
I especially liked the way you played Bohemia Rag. 🥰
Beautifully played, it sounded to me like the version of john arpin
Sensational
Good luck with everything
It's such fun and so informative
❤❤paragon rag
You are clearly an expert on this music and your pianistic skills are truly amazing! So please don't get me wrong. If I may ask you, how is it, in your opinion, that we arrive at this tempo (Maple Leaf) in light of Joplin's admonition to not play ragtime too fast? I want to be educated about this. Also, how did the straight 16ths in ragtime scores become generally played as dotted rhythms? Something happened along the way and it puzzles me. I am interested in "authentic" - your title. Were the scores notated in straight 16ths merely as a convention or convenience. Thanks for your video.
"Maple Leaf Rag" does not say "play very slowly." Generally speaking, ragtime was upbeat music, and there is evidence for this on original recordings from the period. For all we know, it may have been the music publisher who wrote "it is never right to play ragtime fast." "March tempo" does not mean slow. Joplin's student Arthur Marshall said play "Maple Leaf" as fast as possible and still hit the left hand octaves. It is a contemporary misnomer among classical music scholars that ragtime is supposed to be played slow and exactly as written. Hope this helps! For a more thorough understanding, listen to original recordings from the period and the 1950s ragtime revival.
Thanks. I do have reservations about this but I appreciate your taking the time to reply. I'll do some more research.@@adamgswanson
What do you mean by "reservations"? Ultimately, a musician should play a piece the way they think it sounds best. If you listen to many of the recordings in the history of the ragtime canon, you will learn how the music was really played. Most classical musicians have never heard the great ragtime pianists in history and therefore don't know anything about the historical performance practices. For examples, listen to Eubie Blake, John Arpin, Trebor Tichenor, Knocky Parker, Johnny Maddox, Wally Rose, etc.@@curiousassortment
You may be perfectly correct. However, I know that sometimes (not always) performers don't do as the composer intended. I recognize that ragtime can entice musicians to jazz things up, and those versions "work" effectively in their own way, including your own excellent playing. What I look to are the composer's directions, and as a performer myself, I value that more than how his students played, though I don't discount that either. The comment, possibly from the publisher, is that ragtime shouldn't be played too fast. If true, I'd like to know where he got that comment from, and whether that comment has a certain weight. Those are my reservations. However, I'm not a ragtime expert and I might be totally wrong in my thinking. @@adamgswanson
congratulation you're playing very well !!
Quick question could you give us a little information and the pin you play here at home? Maybe what brand and what year it was originally built. It seems to have very good sound and is very well suited for the music you play. I’ll have to look up your PO Box I think you’re definitely worth tipping out as you really do some thing that is not only a skill but a great art .
What does Adam think of my rag songs? hehe
Is that a Gerhard Heintzman ?
Why do pianists insist on playing rags at breakneck speed? Played slower the music would last longer, little grace notes as well as other notes would be heard more distinctly
You're right, and some, like Jeremy Rifkin do play them slower. On the other hand, Swanson's pace fits the march form, on which the rag is baced.
Last word is 'based.'
I hear all the subtlety and love his incredible talent. Wonder how you're missing it? Thank God people can play in any speed they can handle. Otherwise it would be an awfully dull world.
He is obviously very talented, but yes this was too fast. I slowed it to 75% and it sounds perfect!
I love it the way it is.