Morath's career in music and entertainment spanned eight decades, including his watershed program -- The Ragtime Era -- created at the Denver Educational Television Station KRMA
Max Morath, a Colorado Springs native who as a pianist and musical director championed ragtime music, and who around 1960 wrote, performed and co-produced 28 programs for public television in Denver entitled “The Ragtime Era,” died June 19 in Duluth, Minn. He was 96.
Morath’s career in music and entertainment spanned eight decades, including his watershed program — The Ragtime Era — created at the Denver Educational Television Station KRMA as part of the 60-station National Educational Television network, the predecessor of PBS,With the program, now considered a genre classic, “Max pioneered a new concept for American educational TV illustrating that information can also entertain,” according...
. “That was the essence of his work, that and informing the public about an important era of America’s popular culture.
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