Matthew de Lacey Davidson is a pianist and composer currently resident in Nova Scotia, Canada. His first CD, Space Shuffle and Other Futuristic Rags (Stomp Off Records), contained the first commercial recordings of the rags of Robin Frost. His new Rivermont 2-CD set, The Graceful Ghost: Contemporary Piano Rags 1960-2021, is available at rivermontrecords.com. A 3-CD set of Matthew’s compositions, Stolen Music: Acoustic and Electronic Works, is available through The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana), sousa@illinois.edu.
I first met Hal Isbitz in 1991 at the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, and again in Santa Barbara, California in 1992, while
