I must have been 7 or 8 when I first heard Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" in the movie The Sting.This would have been at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco, where my mom used to take ...

Like pretty much every other piano student in America, I set about learning how to play "The Entertainer." ... Joplin wrote "The Entertainer" in 1902, at the dawn of a new century.