I studied piano for a LONG time and I always wanted to play some ragtime but that wasn't what my teachers had in mind. When I was a kid, I had the Marvin Hamlisch 45 of The Entertainer, but what really captivated me was the B-side... a really beautiful tune called Solace. From time to time I looked for the music to it but could never find it.

I think one of the reasons that some people don't want to play ragtime is that some folks got Really Tired of that selfsame 45 I used to have. Thanks to The Sting, that song was all over the radio in the early 70s. It's sort of like the Foggy Mountain Breakdown of the piano. ;-)