![]() ![]() He has given lectures on historical aspects of ragtime: "Ragtime Emerges from the Shadows in Music and Word" at the West Coast Ragtime Festival in 2012, at the Joplin Festival in 2014, and an updated version at the Sutter Creek Festival in 2017 and “From Rag to Ragtime: Exploring the Etymology” at the Joplin Festival in 2017. His impeccable scholarship has informed and inspired us. In 2020 pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen performed "Lucille's Rag Arabesque" at the virtual West Coast Ragtime Festival. In 2017 pianist Kylan DeGhetaldi performed a "theme set" devoted to compositions played at the West Coast Ragtime Festival. More recently his compositions have appeared on two of the CDs of contemporary ragtime commissioned and produced by Danny Matson on Rivermont label. Anne and Jeff Barnhart, on flute and piano, recorded his composition “Aura of Indigo” on their CD “Romances in Ragtime.” In 2003 he privately published a folio of earlier compositions Conceptions in Ragtime with foreword by Glenn Jenks. In 2014 "Lucille's Rag Arabesque" won second prize in the composition contest at the Blind Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival. In the 1997 contest "Farewell to Paradise" won honorable mention among 43 entries and was commercially recorded on CD by pianist Brian Keenan. He has composed approximately 25 rags of significant musical substance beginning in 1960 with "Sedalia," which was issued as a piano roll. In 2000 "Dalliance-A Ragtime Frolic" won the $500 first prize in the Joplin Foundation composition contest. I believe all of these achievements are more than significant to support this nomination many times over. Like his early audio taped interviews, everything Fred has contributed is of great value and authenticity. In the late 1950s he created an audio recording about American folk-singer Goebel Reeves, “The Texas Drifter,” steel guitarist Leon McAulliffe and Anglo-American western swing musician “Bob “Wills.” That resource now resides in the Fred Hoeptner Archive of the Southern Folklife Collection of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ![]() Schmidt, in Pasadena, California, he assisted in formation of the Rose Leaf Ragtime Club and has served as its treasurer since then. It continues to meet monthly. Though Fred is an Environmental Engineer by profession he has been leaving large contributions in the field of ragtime and popular music and culture since 1955 when, in cooperation with the late P.J. ![]() Hoeptner, LaCresenta, California for the 2022 Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award. T he following tribute is from Larry Melton's nomination of Fred Hoeptner for the award: ![]()
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