What was Treemonisha about?

Treemonisha is a young freedwoman. After being taught to read by a white woman, she leads her community against the influence of conjurers, who are shown as preying on ignorance and superstition. Treemonisha is abducted and is about to be thrown into a wasps’ nest when her friend Remus rescues her.

Who wrote Treemonisha?

Scott JoplinTreemonisha / Composer
In 1911, Scott Joplin wrote the first indigenous folk opera in the United States, “Treemonisha,” three years before Zitkala-Sa’s “The Sun Dance.” Joplin proclaimed: I am a composer of Ragtime music but I want it thoroughly understood that my opera “Treemonisha” is not Ragtime.

When was Treemonisha first performed?

1972Treemonisha / First performance

Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha” first premiered as a concert read-through in Harlem in 1910, and was not fully staged until 1972, over fifty years after the composer’s death The work, described as “an entirely new form of operatic art,” combines Wagnerian conventions of opera with traditional African-American folk tales …

What is the name of Joplin’s most famous piano rag?

Maple Leaf Rag
One of his first and most popular pieces, the “Maple Leaf Rag”, became ragtime’s first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag. Joplin considered ragtime to be a form of classical music and largely disdained the practice of ragtime such as that in honky tonk.

When Treemonish was a baby Monisha found her?

Monisha explains her strange request by relating Treemonisha’s origins. Eighteen years ago she found the girl as a newborn under that “sacred tree”, whose leaves had sheltered the foundling from the heavy rains and the burning sun.

Where has Treemonisha been performed?

Since then, it has been performed by the Houston Grand Opera, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, and throughout Europe including several times in Germany. The Parker Symphony Orchestra performed the Overture from “Treemonisha” on February 25, 2017.

Where was Joplin born?

TexasScott Joplin / Place of birth

What is Scott Joplin’s most famous songs?

Among Joplin’s best-known tunes were The Easy Winners (1901), Elite Syncopations (1902), the ragtime waltz Bethena (1905), and Pineapple Rag (1908), which in its second half shows that its composer was fully aware of the expressive power of the ‘blue’ notes which would soon come to dominate jazz.

What was the first African American opera?

Carmen
The Theodore Drury Grand Opera Company gave its first performance on May 14, 1900, a production of Carmen at New York City’s Lexington Avenue Opera House.

When did the ragtime era end?

ragtime, propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917.