Joplin

Florence Joplin also got permission for her son to use a piano in one of the houses she cleaned in Texarkana.

At least 116 people are now known to have been killed by a tornado which struck the American city of Joplin in Missouri on Sunday evening.

Growing up listening to Scott Joplin's rags, James P. Johnson was one of the originators of the stride piano style.

Many experts also think Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left.

Mr Obama met survivors and was attending a memorial service in the small town of Joplin, where the tornado struck a week ago.

In Joplin, one of the ways Weber coped was to remind herself of the many blessings in her life.

Obama plans 4 countries in Europe at the end of a week-long visit, local time Sunday (29) visited the Joplin City suffered a tornado hit.

Still, when a Joplin family recently called to tell her one of her former patients died, she struggled.

Scott was the second of seven children born to Giles and Florence Joplin. His father was a freed slave who worked on the railroad.

I hated Janis Joplin with a passion for much of my adolescence, for instance, for no other reason than because my parents loved her.

After his wife's death, in nineteen-oh-five, Joplin wrote a concert waltz called "Bethena. "

Paul has tracked down an early recording of Scott Joplin playing one of his rags.

Scott Joplin's early piano lessons did not include ragtime.

Joplin, Missouri, was the latest setting for a tornado disaster.

But singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen never forgot what he got up to with Janis Joplin in 415.

Like the original Smithsonian jazz set, the new version opens with Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag. "

Tears streaming down her face, The Rocker attacked Janis Joplin's legendary ballad with a ferocity that belied her tender age.

Last Sunday, my family and I experienced the nation's eighth deadliest tornado on record, in Joplin, Missouri.

Search is still going on for the missing from the massive tornado that flattened Joplin, Missouri.

That song is called "Maple Leaf Rag. " Scott Joplin wrote it more than one hundred years ago.

The Joplin tornado is one of more than 1, 300 such storms recorded so far this year, according to the National Weather Service.

The president flew over the miles of demolished landscape before landing in Joplin.

The Scott Joplin Organization in Sedalia, Missouri says Joplin wrote this rag, "The Chrysanthemum, " for his second wife.

Seven people had been rescued, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon told reporters in Joplin.

Stark offered to pay Joplin a percentage of each sale of "Maple Leaf Rag" sheet music.

The domestic debacles were the worst tornado season in history, which included the storms in Alabama and Joplin, Missouri.

A man sits in front of a destroyed apartment building following the Joplin, Missouri tornado.

Sheldon: In a world where a piano is a weapon, not a musical instrument, on what does Scott Joplin play "The Maple Leaf Rag" ?

"That's part of the tragedy, too, " said Brad Belk, director of the Joplin Museum Complex.

Obama sounded a similar message at a memorial service in Joplin later Sunday afternoon.

July 05--In Joplin, a wounded beautician had a request for the busy intensive care nurse.

Across Joplin's south side, churches, schools, businesses and homes were reduced to rubble.

The piece has a sad sound to it, quite unlike Joplin's earlier work.

Here is "The Chrysanthemum, " which Joplin wrote for the woman who would become his second wife, Freddie.

The Capps lost their home after a destructive tornado moved through Joplin on Sunday evening.

The judges mostly agreed that Iraheta should have picked another song besides Janice Joplin's "Cry Baby. "

Obama was in Europe when the Joplin tornado struck last Sunday.

Something even more important happened to Joplin in Sedalia.

Joplin is considered the foremost composer of ragtime music.

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri to two bookkeepers.

I'm pretty sure that's what residents are telling themselves in Joplin today.

Scott Joplin began his music-writing career in Sedalia.

Rock singer Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas.

It's a familiar path for the Joplin, Mo. , company.

The most deadly single tornado in America since 1947 hit Joplin, Missouri, killing at least 125 people.

Joplin, a city of about 49, 000 people, sits at the edge of the Ozark Mountain region.

Florence and Giles Joplin separated before Scott became a teenager.

couldn't agree more what a pile of shit, listen to janis joplin singing it on the tom jones show, blows all these other crap versions away.

Eight people in the Joplin R-8 School District are confirmed dead: seven students and one staff member.

After the team came home from Joplin, she said, "That first night I was so wired I couldn't sleep. "

Joplin also got a permanent job in Sedalia playing the piano in a new nightclub.

The job permitted Joplin time to write and play his own work.

In Joplin, a city of 50, 000, some 500 were injured.

Famous faces: Leonard Cohen's song Chelsea Hotel recalls an intimate meeting with Janis Joplin in one of the rooms

Robert Oexman, chiropractor and director of the Sleep to Live Institute in Joplin, Missouri

People in America: Scott Joplin--The King of Ragtime Music