[00:00:00] Prologue: Ragtime - David Loud
[00:00:34] In 1902 father built a house
[00:00:36] At the crest of the brodview
[00:00:38] Avenue hill in new rochelle
[00:00:40] New york and it seemed for
[00:00:42] Some years thereafter that all the family's days would be
[00:00:46] Warm and fair
[00:00:52] The skies were blue and hazy
[00:00:56] Rarely a storm Barely a chill
[00:01:00] La la la la
[00:01:02] The afternoons were lazy
[00:01:06] Everyone warm Everything still
[00:01:09] La la la la
[00:01:11] And there was distant music
[00:01:15] Simple and somehow sublime
[00:01:20] Giving the nation
[00:01:21] A new syncopation
[00:01:24] The people called it ragtime
[00:01:31] Father was well-off
[00:01:32] Very well-off His considerable
[00:01:35] Income was derived from the manufacture and sale of
[00:01:37] Fireworks and other accoutrements of patriotism Father
[00:01:41] Was also something of an amateur explorer
[00:01:46] The house on the hill in new rochelle was mother's
[00:01:49] Domain She took pleasure in making it comfortable
[00:01:52] For the men of her family and often told herself how
[00:01:55] Fortunate she was to be so protected and provided for
[00:01:59] By her husband
[00:02:03] Mother's younger brother worked at father's fireworks
[00:02:05] Factory He was a genius at explosives But he was also
[00:02:10] A young man in search of something to believe in His
[00:02:14] Sisterwondered when he would find it
[00:02:19] Grandfather had been a professor of greek and latin Now
[00:02:23] Retired and living with his daughter and her family he
[00:02:26] Was thoroughly irritated by everything
[00:02:32] The days were gently tinted
[00:02:36] Lavender pink lemon and lime
[00:02:40] Ladies with parasols
[00:02:42] Fellows with tennis balls
[00:02:44] There were gazebos and
[00:02:46] The were no negroes
[00:02:50] And everything was ragtime
[00:03:05] Listen to the ragtime
[00:03:09] In harlem men and women of color forgot their
[00:03:11] Troubles and danced and reveled to the music of
[00:03:14] Coalhouse walker jr This was a music that was theirs
[00:03:18] And no one else's
[00:03:20] One young woman thought coalhouse played just for her
[00:03:22] Her name was sarah
[00:03:25] Ooooh
[00:03:26] Booker t Washington was the most famous negro
[00:03:28] In the country He counselled friendship between the
[00:03:31] Races and spoke of the promise of the future He had no
[00:03:35] Patience for negroes who lived less than exemplary lives
[00:03:43] Ladies with parasols
[00:03:45] Fellows with tennis balls
[00:03:47] There were no negroes
[00:03:49] And there were no immigrants
[00:04:07] In latvia a man dremed of a new life
[00:04:10] For his little girl
[00:04:11] It would be a long journey a treeible one
[00:04:14] He would not lose her as he had her mother
[00:04:16] His name was tateh He never spoke of his wife
[00:04:20] The little girl was all he had now
[00:04:22] Together they would escape
[00:04:26] Houdini Look it's houdini
[00:04:33] Ooh aah
[00:04:40] Ooh aah
[00:04:46] Harry houdini was one immigrant who made and art of
[00:04:50] Escape He was a headliner in the top vaudeville circuits
[00:04:54] Ich bin die mutter des grossen houdinis
[00:04:58] He mad his mother proud But for all his achievements he
[00:05:02] Knew he was only an illusionist He wanted to believe
[00:05:05] There was more
[00:05:07] Hello sonny
[00:05:08] Warn the duke
[00:05:10] What did you say
[00:05:12] And there was distant music
[00:05:15] Changing the tune changing the time
[00:05:19] Giving the nation
[00:05:21] A new syncopation:
[00:05:23] La la la
[00:05:25] Certain men make a country great
[00:05:27] They can't help it
[00:05:29] At the very apex of the american pyramid
[00:05:32] That's the very tip-top
[00:05:33] Like pharoahs reincarnate stood j p Morgan
[00:05:37] And henry ford
[00:05:39] All men are born equal
[00:05:41] But the cream rises to the top
[00:05:45] Let me at those sosn of bitches
[00:05:48] These men are the
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