13:34

Is fun thinking Scott Joplin was what we would call "feminist" and nobody remember who he was. 💔

love this

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2024/09/20

this is in the "most recognizable classical music" playlist bro nobody would ever recognize this apart from there being cannons

Eu passei a amar essa música depois q vi benjamin Button ela é tão delicada e suave mais com um toque de alegria

2 years later and still can't escape it

This reminds me my Great-Grandma Elvira Jiménez (1909 - 2010), she was a very active, nice and catholic person until her death, she worked since 1923 until 2005 as able as she was for it, she told her family a lot of things about the XX century's Mexico: how she lived the Mexican Revolution, how she was the family De La Parra's maid during the 1920s, how she lived in El Salvador on the 1930s, how she worked her bussness since the 1930s until the 2000s, how different Mexico City was before than currently, how she experienced Europe when she traveled there, among so much other stories. I miss her, I wish she could be still alive with me, with my sister, with my father, with my uncle, with my family. She could tell a lot of her life and how she lived the XX century's world, it was a miracle when she turned 100 years old. I love her and I'll keep her in my memory until my own death.

I hear his emotions from the loss in the opening, then the memories of the relationship as it bloomed and the beauty & joy, to the darkness of her illness and ultimately her death, just to come back to the place of origin… Dealing with his grief & melancholy. I see it all with my mind through the music.

So - what I have gotten is that, no original recordings of this song are out there? Not saying some versions not cool or anything, I’m impressed. Wondering on, if any true original? As he was.

Ah, Bethena, how you play me. I look at you and you look away. I go away and you look back. Your strings are delicate but unyielding. My hands can but tremble over your keys yet to touch your ivory soul is beyond my reach. Bethena, oh Bethena how you play me.

Just about makes me cry everytime I hear it.

This piece is one of my fave.

Actually, the black-capped chickadee's song is the true original. Even the key is the same. Joplin lifted it without credit. 😉

安格考研究所了

I love the melody...lovely haunting achingly beautiful..

3:31 i think is the best part when the sad part of their story begins this part is why im here

One of my favorite solo piano pieces ever.

Did you know that two of Joplin's Rags were used in the original Jaws film?

Magnificent

0:55

A tremendous composition, but what it have to do with American Independence Day?

I clicked on, "find a grave memorial" and apparently according to a historian, the woman on the cover of Benetha is not Freddie, and neither did she have "benetha for a nickname or a middle name

Benjamin button brought me here.

I think he's got the syncopation "turned up a bit too far" ;-) Until your ear gets attuned to it, it sounds very odd, but I bet Scott Joplin played it like that when the mood took him. I much prefer Joshua Rifkin's playing of it. And it could do with a bit more legato (ie not as stacatto) - either hold down each key until closer to the time the next key is pressed or else "bracket" phrases with a bit more sustain pedal. That minor-key section at 3:30 always gets to me - so poignant, especially when you know he wrote the piece after the death of his second wife only 10 weeks after their wedding. Poor bugger - you can hear in his music how heartbroken he was.

Oddly reminiscent of the theme of the fugue from Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin!

Reminds me of Voa Radio in iraq

My man bejamin knew it

the sting is a great film. reignited interest in Joplin's work.

A bit rushed & too staccato at parts but over all a pretty nice record!

And here i am in 2021, hating these future times i live in. Take me back to 1821!

This song make me sad

Listen to the version from Benjamin Button. This version sounds like he's chopping wood. Dreadful

*Beau-père* avec Patrick Deweare...

Best song ever written

Anytime I hear this without the cannon I am disappointed

Bethena. A waltz. Trying to pass as 4/4

This music immediatly gets me into The curious case of Benjamin Button, and it is even more beautiful for this reason.

Sジョプリンのベセーナはなかなかの名曲だとみてます、っていうか日本人のコメント少なすぎ、偉大な作曲家だという事に気付いてないわ、音楽の教科書に出て来ないから致し方ないか。

this song really emcompasses the stories in the film adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

This was such a good motif for Benjamin Button

Excellent interpretation ! I like the skip rythym in the main theme and elsewhere. It's an exceptionally beautiful piece comparable to Beethoven or Greig in ability to convey emotion. Joplin put his soul into this.

Bejamin Button and Freddie Alexandra, beautiful stories that have been passed to me and so amny others, who will pass it to many, their stories live on.

We need more African-americans like Joplin.

Imagine being alive in 1812

It's ok, but I think I would interpret it a little differently, more reflective of someone one is most fond of. Let the piano sing a little more at slightly slower gait and almost pianissimo molto legato, cantabile. The middle section to the recap of the main theme I would play more upbeat but still reserved. It's a very fine genuine piece of piano music. I'm playing it this afternoon for my granddaughter. Best

why is this so crap?

Tchaikovsky no

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