Скачать или смотреть Hiawatha (Neil Moret, 1901) played by Kevin Gunia and Michael Chisholm

Kevin and I thought it’d be a good idea to get together before the upcoming Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival to rehearse some of our more challenging duets. Because we like to track our progress, we record as many of our rehearsals and performances as we can. We’re finding a number of these rehearsals are decent enough to post without being flawless.

This is the original Indian intermezzo; Neil Moret’s “Hiawatha” from 1901. This was composed on a train ride from Kansas City, Missouri to Hiawatha, Kansas. The repetitive thumping of the train wheels against the tracks inspired Charles N. Daniels to compose this piece. He named the piece after the town he was traveling to, not the Longfellow character, never intending this to start the Indian intermezzo craze.