This unique recording sets out to give a flavour of American ragtime through the medium of the mandolin. It is now believed that many of the original early twentieth-century rags were regularly performed by American-Italian mandolin orchestras whose numbers were swelled by Italian immigrants. Highlights on this disc include three of Scott Joplin�s best known rags (The Entertainer was dedicated to �James Brown and his Mandolin Club�), Julius Lenzberg�s Operatic Rag, a syncopated take on works by Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Wagner, Bizet and others, That Italian Rag by the Tin Pan Alley composer Alfredo �Al� Piantadosi, and the �Neapolitan two-step� A� Frangesa by Edward George.