The Great Crush Collision March (Scott Joplin) played by John Reed-Torres

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Before he had any ragtime published, Joplin had written songs, marches and waltzes, including this march in 1896 commemorating a publicity stunt in which two locomotives were crashed into one another for paying spectators. So many people attended that the temporary makeshift town of Crush, Texas, was for that day the second-largest city in the state. Two or three spectators were killed and many others injured when one or both of the locomotive boilers exploded, sending shrapnel into the crowd.

John, a newcomer to the ragtime scene, adds some ragtime variations to the repeats during this performance from his ragtime festival debut at the 2011 West Coast Ragtime Festival. See John's YouTube page, http://www.youtube.com/user/ragtimejohn

Download the sheet music for this march here: http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/images/crushcol.pdf

West Coast Ragtime Festival info: http://www.westcoastragtime.com