Scott Joplin's Treemonisha: America's Forgotten Opera

A video looking into Scott Joplin's fantastic but mostly forgotten opera Treemonisha.

If the topic is of interest to you the following links might be useful:

http://www.newworldrecords.org/uploads/fileLHtge.pdf

http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/TreemonishaOpera.htm

This article is a little heavy on the politics, but well researched nonetheless: http://www.crj-online.org/v4/CRJ-Treemonisha.php
Here is a link to amazon so you can get your own copy of Treemonisha, something which I highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=treemonisha+gunther+schuller

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