Two versions of a short work by Igor Stravinsky, heard Monday night on WQXR (classical music in NYC): a solo piano arrangement Piano-Rag-Music and an arrangement for 11 instruments (Ragtime, the version WQXR played). Stravinsky started writing it when he had never heard actual ragtime, or in fact any kind of jazz at all, but had only … Continue reading Piano-Rag-Music / Ragtime