Episode 372 Where the heavenly bodies are November 24 at 1:11 pm PST

Let’s talk about #seduction Sexy . #Scorpius. Two artist I feature in this podcast worked in Brothels one as a musician the other as a painter and both died of syphilis and were born on November 24. Scott Joplin is known as the “King of Ragtime”, famous for such compositions like “The Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer”. A travelling musician, #Joplin was at the Chicago World Fair in 1893, where Ragtime became a national craze. He went on to publish his own Ragtime compositions before starting his own Opera Company and composing operas, self-publishing his " Treemonisha" opera in 1911. Joplin's music was largely forgotten after his death in 1917 but rediscovered in the 1960s and 1970s. The film "The Sting" (1973) featured music inspired by Scott Joplin and Marvin Hamlisch won an Academy Award for his soundtrack. His version of the "The Entertainer" then became a top ten hit. Scott Joplin http://www.friendsofscottjoplin.org/index.html Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. https://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/ The Moulin Rouge had opened two years earlier, in 1889, and instantly established itself as a Montmartre landmark. It was renowned for the elasticity of its young dancers, both physically and morally; police officers made periodic checks to ensure that they were all wearing underwear. However, the poster by Jules Chéret advertising the club's delights was relatively subdued, so the director Charles Zidler hired the young (only 27 years old) #Toulouse-Lautrec to create a more vibrant poster.