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The Piper is somewhat based on the old tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin. I think it was included in the Grimm Brothers’ collected writings. But is surely something that is a much older legend. In short, this Pipe used his flute to lure the rats out of the city but when the citizen refused to pay him, he used the same pipe to lure their children away. It’s a gruesome tale really. And...
I fell in love with Scott Joplin’s music when I first saw The Sting! You know the movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford along with loads of other actors that you certainly know by face, but necessarily their name. That’s how it is for me anyway. Wait a minute. Robert Shaw does a brilliant part as well! The Sting featured Scott Joplin’s music just as much as any actor in it, at least in...
