Antonio Martinez

Alternative title

Osnabrück: Ragtime für die Ehrgeizige Seele

Composer

Antonio Martinez

Publisher

Antonio Martinez

Genre

Jazz / Ragtime

Instrumentation

Piano

Scored for

Solo

Type of score

For a single performer

Key

C minor

Duration

3'55"

Difficulty

Difficult

Year of composition

2018

Description
This is the fifty-sixth destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red Light District." This piece is set at Osnabruck's Das Rote Haus in Eisenbahnstraße.

The main character in this piece is a 31-year old ostrich farm entrepreneur. This person has carried a tradition of tending various farms in the neighborhood that previous generations established over the past four centuries. However, the stress of running ostrich farms has taken a toll on the main character. So with guiding spirit, the main character decided to take a spear and threw it toward an outdated map. That spear landed on the city of Osnabruck, and the main character visited many notable landmarks, including the Bucksturm, St. Catherine's Church, and St. Marien Church. One resident even recognized the main character and so invited the person to try an unprecedented food experiment offered at Leysieffer - chocolate-flavored emu hamburgers imported from the sister city of Evansville, Indiana.

These hamburgers were so exceptional that the main character and the resident sold their concoctions at a kiosk outside Stadion an der Bremer Brucke during a 3. Liga promotion-relegation playoff. Following that experience, the main character decided to take a power walk onto the streets.

That walk led the main character to Eisenbahnstraße, where the person received greetings from many locals. One of the local that caught the main character's eye was a working woman with three children who had to work at Das Rote Haus to pay for taxes and rent at a run-down apartment. But the main character began feeling perturbed when he saw a group of surly men harassing the working woman, and the situation grew volatile. That was until the main character, praying for something unexpected, received a lasso and pitchfork and with one attempt lassoed the surly men. In no time, local authorities responded quickly and apprehended the surly men. The working woman expressed her gratitude to the main character and decided to spend a strictly professional evening inside Das Rote Haus.

This piece has a format of 4AABBA4C4DAC'C'. Johann Sebastian Bach's Two-Part Invention No. 2 (C minor) and James Scott's "The Suffragette" were the primary basis for this piece.

Upload date

21.11.2018