Hi all!

While reading through the USENET newsgroup 'rec.music.ragtime' today I
found an announcement of a *wonderful* new Ragtime WWW page devoted to
contemporary *Swedish* Ragtime piano music! The site is run by Oleg
Mezjuev (29-years-young) living in  J=E4rf=E4lla, Sweden (though he was
originally from Unecha, in the Soviet Union), and contains many MIDI
files for downloading.  The files are zipped, and all are 5k or less in
size, so they download very quickly. Also, they're 'plain vanilla' MIDI
files with no sysex commands or program changes; just two or three
piano tracks.

There's some really nice music here! As Oleg says at the top of his page:
    "Ragtime Dead? Hell! It Ain't Even Sick!"

This site does not work by direct ftp; you must use a web browser.¶
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The url is:  http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1790/index.html¶
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They are also available from Warren Trachtman's Ragtime MIDI page at:

http://pages.prodigy.com/trachtman/  (enter the swedish section.)

If you don't have web access, Oleg has generously offered to e-mail any
of these songs to you. Just e-mail him at the address listed at the end
of this posting. You'll need to know how to un-zip and uudecode them
after you receive them, though. (Each .zip file contains only the one
compressed song) I've included the filenames <***.zip> below so you'll
have a reference to go by.

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Available Swedish Ragtime MIDI files (in the order listed on Oleg's page):¶
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Composed by Peter Andersson:¶
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"Construction Rag" (1986, Peter's first rag) - construc.zip¶
"The River Boat Slow Drag" (1986) - rivboat.zip¶
"Yearning Rag" (1987) - yearning.zip  (not the American song 'Yearning')¶
"Teddy Bear Rag" (1990) - tedybear.zip¶
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Composed by Peter Lundberg:¶
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"Gothenburg Rag" (1966) - gothburg.zip¶
"Whooping Crane - Rag" (1969) - whopcran.zip¶
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Composed by Oleg Mezjuev:¶
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"Simple Rag" (1986) - simplrag.zip¶
"Starlight Rag" (1986, dedicated to Oleg's Grandfather) - starlite.zip¶
(This is the one I keep playing over and over! It's one of the most
beautifully infectious melodies I've ever heard -- the sort of song that
just keeps rolling around in one's head! I suspect Oleg's Grandfather has
departed, and if you have lost anyone near and dear to you this song will
really bring a lump to your throat. Or just play it and think fondly of
those you care about. It's not dreary, but light and bright and simply
**gorgeous** IMO!! The title says it all.)¶
"1986. A Rag" (1986, of course!) - 1986arag.zip¶
"Birch Leaf Rag" (1987) - birchlef.zip¶
"Enchantment Rag" (1987) - enchant.zip¶
"The Never Fading Love" (1990) - neverfad.zip¶
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Composed by Kjell H. Waltman:¶
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"The Jack Daniel's Old No. 7" - jackdan7.zip (Maybe that's how Swede's keep
warm?!)¶
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Classical Rags by Various Composers:¶
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"A Rag-Time Nightmare - March and Two-Step" by Tom Turpin (1900)-=¶
 nitemare.zip¶
"Hot House Rag" by Paul Pratt (1914) - hothouse.zip¶

Oleg states in the USENET posting: "In the future I hope to post some
old swedish cakewalk and two-steps" so this site will be worth adding
to your web browser bookmark list if you like Ragtime (and who
doesn't??).

If you enjoy this music as much as I do, please write an e-mail to Oleg
thanking him for making this beautiful music available (and encourage him to
do more!!):

>>> e-mail for Oleg:   oleg.mezjuev@mailbox.swipnet.se

******* ENJOY!!

Ron Yost <ryost@fix.net>