Marc Sachnoff said:

> ... alert Southern California early pop music fans about a new musical
> that's debuting at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California.
>
> "Tin Pan Alley Rag" is about a fictional meeting  between Irving Berlin
> and Scott Joplin in New York in 1915.  It's full of great ragtime and
> Berlin pop tunes and a rare plus -- several large chunks of Joplin's
> "Treemonisha" performed with gusto.

Do you know who the playwright is?  Is there any suggestion that the play
borrowed ideas from my bio of Joplin?  In the play, does Berlin take the
"Marching Onward" section of "A Real Slow Drag" (the closing of
"Treemonisha") for use in "Alexander's Ragtime Band"?

This was Joplin's accusation, except it was in 1910, not 1915.  And
Joplin & Berlin must have known each other, for Joplin was publishing
with Seminary Music at the same time that Berlin was working for Ted
Snyder Music ... and the two companyies had joint ownership and used
the same office.

Ian Whitcomb, in his "Irving Berlin & Ragtime America," also suggested
that the two may have met, basing his speculation on the identical
address for Seminary & Ted Snyder (which he noticed on sheet music).
But going a bit further, I checked the business papers & discovered that
Ted Snyder Music was owned by Ted Snyder & Henry Waterson, while Seminary
Music was owned by Mary Snyder & Mary Waterson.

     Ed Berlin
          (no relation to Irving)