Product Description
When the doors of the Everleigh Club opened, the first impression was of extravegant opulence. A grand staircase was framed by bouquets of flowers in enormous Chinese vases. The walls were papered with intricate Victorian designs and the woodwork was elaborately carved to express wealth and grandeur. And the sounds of a bubbling fountain mixed with the syncopations of ragtime played by a professor on a gilded piano.
The butterflies who greeted guests were the employees of the Everleigh sisters, Ada and Mina, the owners of the worlds most luxurious brothel. Their clients were royalty, politicians, famous authors and actors, the wealthy conniesseurs who could afford posh hedonsim. If youre intrigued, theres an excellent book which tells this fascinationg story: Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul, by Karen Abbott.
This piano rag, in the style of The King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin, was composed as incidental music for a play, Scarlet Sisters Everleigh, which was produced in Chicago in 2018 at the Berger Park Cultural Center. Its opening measures underscore the scene described above. The following sections, each with their own distinct flavors, were inspired by some of the notorious characters who were part of the Everleigh sisters world; the gansters and the sauve aristocrats. The final section captures the spirit of the annual parade of libertines in Chicagos Levee district where the Everleigh Club was the crown jewel.
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