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Scott Joplin’s A Guest of Honor as Legacy of Sorrow Songs
by Samuel Chalupka In February 1903, the US Copyright Office in St. Louis received this letter: Dear Sir, please find enclosed with this letter one dollar and application for coppyright [sic]. The title of the musical composition is in type writing in the blanck [sic] space on the application. Yours truly, Scott Joplin (Berlin 119)…
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The Real-Life Prison Break: Saving Evangelina Cisneros
by Samuel Chalupka It was late night on Tuesday, October 5, 1897, in Havana – the city finally seemed to be fast asleep in a serene slumber, perhaps only perturbed by the lingering specter of the Cuban-Spanish war. The sky was clear and incandescent, lulling the ambiance and lighting up every nook and cranny of…