Artist description At age 14, I formed my own professional concert band, which lasted about a year. I conducted a massed band made up of several high school bands performing my marches at the World's Fair of 1964-65, and in 1966, became the youngest guest conductor of the last professional concert band in America, performing in Central Park in New York City (Guggenheim Memorial Concert's Goldman Band). I was called "The World's Youngest Composer/Conductor of Marches" and "the teenage Sousa" by the press in both NY and L.A. At age 23, I was elected to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and did professional scoring in Hollywood of films and commercials, plus worked as an A & R man in a recording studio. In the early 1980s, I began composing original ragtime for concert bands, brass bands & other instrumental ensembles. Today, my compositions are published by Bernel Music, Ltd. (brass band), Concert Works Unlimited, Bourne Publications, Heritage Music Press, Ludwig Music Publishing, Manhattan Beach Music, plus my own company, Sound Traditions Publishing, which in addition to publishing band & orchestra ragtime, has the largest listing available today of ragtime and old-style blues for saxophone quartet. 1999 marks the 8th year I have been awarded an ASCAP Popular Music Composition Award for ragtime. In 1987, my rag for band, "That Newport Rag", was commissioned by the city of Newport, Oregon as their "official" music. I have also received commissions from the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, The Brazil Concert Band and the United States Merchant Marine Academy Band. I have contributed articles on ragtime, particularly for band, for "The Rag Times" (15522 Ricky Ct., Grass Valley, CA 95949) and was ragtime editor for "The West Coast Rag" from 1990-91.

Music Style Symphonic Band, Ragtime Concert Band

Musical Influences John Philip Sousa, Arthur Pryor, Scott Joplin, Henry Fillmore, Karl King

Similar Artists Leonard Bernstein, John Philip Sousa, Arthur Pryor, Scott Joplin, Henry Fillmore, Karl King

Instruments Various Concert Band Ensembles

Albums Our Favorite Rag, Wake Up America, Ragging the Baby to Sleep,

Press Reviews The Rag Times September 1995, Dick Zimmerman: Of all the many excellent recordings issued by Stomp Off over the years none are more important than the three CDs of band ragtime, a genre of ragtime previously ignored. Through the diligent efforts of Stephen Kent Goodman, band ragtime is once again being composed, played and heard. Goodman's many original rags for concert bands are sold by most major publishers of band music, making him probably America's most commercially successful professional ragtime composer. As guest conductor on these recordings he has combined five of his own first-class rags with band arrangements from the original ragtime era. This recording features not only college students but some of Southern California's best studio and symphonic musicians who wanted to be part of this historic recording. Their virtuosity brings true excitement to this music which is beyond the ability of most amateur musicians. Many of these long-forgotten gems received their first recording here.

Location Fresno, CA - USA

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