www.BillSchimmel.com - May 2005

Order of the Shield recipient, Dr. Mark Birnbaum, King of Ragtime says:

See you at the seminars!

Yes, Dr. Mark Birnbaum will be there - on Friday, August 26th at 7pm - in a new ragtime work: “After Dinner Cuban Cigar”. Mark actually enjoys an after dinner Cuban cigar every chance he gets - so here's the opportunity to watch and listen to him literally and virtually smoke.

Mark Birnbaum is a pianist - on an accordion seminar - but his ragtime expertise and his uncanny historical connection to the accordions' tango parallel universe - both which simultaneously take place in time