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The Glenn Jenks Ragtime Revue is back and better than ever! Premiering in 2019 at the Camden Opera House, the Glenn Jenks Ragtime Revue celebrates the life and music of the late composer and pianist Glenn Jenks through music, dance and song from the...
ROCKLAND — In conjunction with the Glenn Jenks Ragtime Revue, on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Coastal Children’s Museum, in Rockland, author, musicologist and “the world’s leading historian on ragtime” will give a musical talk on the life and music of...
ROCKPORT — Premiering in 2019 at the Camden Opera House, the Glenn Jenks Ragtime Revue celebrates the life and music of the late composer and pianist Glenn Jenks through music, dance and song from the ragtime and early jazz era. The ragtime revue...
Four jurors join the chair JR McNeill for the 2022 Cundill History Prize competition, based at McGill University.
Five armed policemen barged into Sanmin Bookstore (三民書局) on the morning of March 10, 1947, demanding to see owner Chiang Wei-chuan (蔣渭川). “We’re here to shoot you to death!” one yelled when Chiang appeared and asked what they wanted. Chiang was shocked; just a few days earlier he was negotiating with governor general Chen Yi (陳儀) for political reform and making broadcasts to help pacify the people after the anti-government uprising on Feb. 28. Chen was just buying time. Everything changed once the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) reinforcements arrived from China o...