Ragtime Kid
Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin''s "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It''s destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he''s told no— "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn''t expect is to trip over th...
Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin''s "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It''s destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he''s told no— "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn''t expect is to trip over th...
