When Scott Met Irving ... or Didn’t - Roundabout’s ‘Tin Pan Alley Rag’ Offers a Musical History Lesson

NYTimes.com: "IT’S one of Mark Saltzman’s favorite moments in his play with music, “The Tin Pan Alley Rag,” and he won’t even take the credit. Near the end of the show, which imagines a meeting between the composers Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin, Joplin responds to a painful memory by playing “Bethena,” a ragtime waltz he wrote in 1905. And when he plays, nothing else happens. There are no words, no dances, no set changes. There’s just the sound of a classic piece of American music."