America, 1912: A Musical Snapshot was originally created to celebrate New Mexico’s Diamond Jubilee of statehood. As we delved into the music and the history, we became more and more fascinated with this complex and dynamic time. Not only was ragtime going through its second wave of prominence, but blues and Latin music were just coming into the mainstream.
We found songs from suffrage movement, from the labor struggles, about cowboy life, and about the Titanic’s sinking – all from 1912. These wonderful popular songs serve as an unusual and entertaining way to look at American life in the early Twentieth Century.
Program Subject to Change
Alexander’s Ragtime Band • Irving Berlin • 1911
Scott Joplin’s New Rag • Scott Joplin • 1912
My Melancholy Baby Ernie Burnett & George A. Norton • 1911
Dallas Blues • Hart A. Wand & Lloyd Garrett • 1912
El Choclo • A.G. Villodo • 1912
The Election in Jungle Town • Bert Grant & A. Seymour Brown • 1912
I Am a Suffragette • M.C. Hanford & M. Olive Drennen • 1912
Bread & Roses • James Oppenheim, Caroline Kohlsaat & Martha Coleman • 1912
Red Rambler Rag • Julia Niebergall • 1912
A Perfect Day • Carrie Jacobs-Bond • 1910
Nobody • Bert A. Williams & Alex Rogers • 1905
Timetable Blues • 1911
The Elevator Man (Going Up! Going Up! Going Up!) • Irving Berlin • 1911
The Titanic • 1912
Silver Bell • Percy Wenrich & Edward Madden • 1910
Ragtime Cowboy Joe • Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams & Grant Clarke • 1912
The Santa Fe Trail • J.W. Gower & John Grafton Rogers • 1911
Hymn to the Statehood of New Mexico • Francisco S. Leyva • 1912
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee • Lewis F. Muir & L. Wolfe Gilbert • 1912
Moonlight Bay • Percy Wenrich & Edward Madden • 1912
