Prologue: Ragtime-David Loud

[ti:Prologue: Ragtime] [ar:David Loud] [al:Ragtime: The Broadway Musical] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Prologue: Ragtime - David Loud [00:34.09]In 1902 father built a house [00:36.48]At the crest of the brodview [00:38.03]Avenue hill in new rochelle [00:40.28]New york and it seemed for [00:42.38]Some years thereafter that all the family's days would be [00:46.62]Warm and fair [00:47.81] [00:52.81]The skies were blue and hazy [00:56.93]Rarely a storm Barely a chill [01:00.03]La la la la [01:02.23]The afternoons were lazy [01:06.17]Everyone warm Everything still [01:09.44]La la la la [01:11.65]And there was distant music [01:15.50]Simple and somehow sublime [01:20.27]Giving the nation [01:21.97]A new syncopation [01:24.17]The people called it ragtime [01:26.94] [01:31.06]Father was well-off [01:32.06] [01:32.95]Very well-off His considerable [01:35.22]Income was derived from the manufacture and sale of [01:37.93]Fireworks and other accoutrements of patriotism Father [01:41.82]Was also something of an amateur explorer [01:43.94] [01:46.46]The house on the hill in new rochelle was mother's [01:49.42]Domain She took pleasure in making it comfortable [01:52.57]For the men of her family and often told herself how [01:55.49]Fortunate she was to be so protected and provided for [01:59.10]By her husband [02:00.06] [02:03.36]Mother's younger brother worked at father's fireworks [02:05.68]Factory He was a genius at explosives But he was also [02:10.49]A young man in search of something to believe in His [02:14.29]Sisterwondered when he would find it [02:16.01] [02:19.47]Grandfather had been a professor of greek and latin Now [02:23.13]Retired and living with his daughter and her family he [02:26.43]Was thoroughly irritated by everything [02:29.05] [02:32.60]The days were gently tinted [02:36.12]Lavender pink lemon and lime [02:40.27]Ladies with parasols [02:42.35]Fellows with tennis balls [02:44.60]There were gazebos and [02:46.48]The were no negroes [02:48.03] [02:50.56]And everything was ragtime [02:52.91] [03:05.09]Listen to the ragtime [03:06.89] [03:09.35]In harlem men and women of color forgot their [03:11.88]Troubles and danced and reveled to the music of [03:14.62]Coalhouse walker jr This was a music that was theirs [03:18.87]And no one else's [03:20.14]One young woman thought coalhouse played just for her [03:22.77]Her name was sarah [03:24.00] [03:25.21]Ooooh [03:26.08]Booker t Washington was the most famous negro [03:28.27]In the country He counselled friendship between the [03:31.26]Races and spoke of the promise of the future He had no [03:35.23]Patience for negroes who lived less than exemplary lives [03:39.44] [03:43.52]Ladies with parasols [03:45.41]Fellows with tennis balls [03:47.31]There were no negroes [03:49.02]And there were no immigrants [03:51.28] [04:07.62]In latvia a man dremed of a new life [04:10.17]For his little girl [04:11.45]It would be a long journey a treeible one [04:14.33]He would not lose her as he had her mother [04:16.81]His name was tateh He never spoke of his wife [04:20.52]The little girl was all he had now [04:22.32]Together they would escape [04:23.95] [04:26.03]Houdini Look it's houdini [04:28.15] [04:33.10]Ooh aah [04:35.58] [04:40.44]Ooh aah [04:43.16] [04:46.41]Harry houdini was one immigrant who made and art of [04:50.67]Escape He was a headliner in the top vaudeville circuits [04:54.35]Ich bin die mutter des grossen houdinis [04:58.02]He mad his mother proud But for all his achievements he [05:02.12]Knew he was only an illusionist He wanted to believe [05:05.68]There was more [05:06.62] [05:07.74]Hello sonny [05:08.80]Warn the duke [05:09.84] [05:10.36]What did you say [05:11.29] [05:12.19]And there was distant music [05:15.71]Changing the tune changing the time [05:19.77]Giving the nation [05:21.00]A new syncopation: [05:23.04]La la la [05:24.07] [05:25.49]Certain men make a country great [05:27.90]They can't help it [05:29.30]At the very apex of the american pyramid [05:32.17]That's the very tip-top [05:33.78]Like pharoahs reincarnate stood j p Morgan [05:37.38]And henry ford [05:39.28]All men are born equal [05:41.48]But the cream rises to the top [05:44.21] [05:45.38]Let me at those sosn of b**ches [05:47.71] [05:48.51]These men are the [05:49.80]Demons who are sucking your very souls dry [05:53.91]I hate them [05:54.86]Someone should arrest that woman [05:56.64] [05:57.84]The radical anarchist emma goldman fought against the [06:01.08]Ravages of american capitalism as she watched her fellow [06:05.56]Immigrants' hopes turn to despair on the lower east side [06:10.69] [06:11.67]La la la [06:12.51]La la la la [06:15.33]Whee [06:15.83]But america was watching another drama [06:18.98]Evelyn nesbit was the most beautiful woman in america [06:22.64]If she wore her hair in curls [06:24.86]Every woman wore her hair [06:26.44]In curls [06:27.57]Her lover was the eminent architect stanford white [06:30.22]Designer of the pennsylvania station on 33rd street [06:33.43] [06:35.84]Her husband the eccentric millionaire harry k Thaw [06:39.78] [06:40.76]Was a violent man [06:42.82] [06:43.63]After her husband shot her lover [06:46.05]Evelyn became the biggest [06:47.82]Attraction in vaudeville since tom thumb [06:51.20]La la la la la [06:53.75]Bang [06:54.23]La la la [06:55.19]Bang [06:55.90]La [06:56.33]Bang [06:56.96]And although the newspapers called the shooting the [07:00.39]Crime of the century goldman knew it was only 1906 [07:05.66]And there were ninety-four years to go [07:08.44]Whee [07:10.40] [07:10.99]And there was music playing [07:14.50]Catching a nation in it's prime [07:18.28]Beggar and millionaire [07:20.18]Everyone everywhere [07:22.18]Moving to the ragtime [07:26.79] [08:20.96]And there was distant music [08:25.45]Skipping a beat singing a dream [08:28.88]La la la la [08:31.30]A strange insistent music [08:35.63]Putting out heat [08:37.09] [08:37.68]Picking up steam [08:39.08]La la la la [08:41.29]The sound of distant thunder [08:45.23]Suddenly starting to climb [08:51.24] [08:51.77]It was the music [08:53.14]Of something beginning [08:55.00]An era exploding [08:56.72]A century spinning [08:58.06]In riches and rags [08:59.66]And in rhythm and rhyme [09:02.02]The people called it Ragtime [09:03.93] [09:04.89]Ragtime [09:07.54] [09:08.57]Ragtime [09:11.09] [09:12.15]Ragitme