Music:
Richard Strauss: Feuersnot
Anton Dvorak: Rusalka
Scott Joplin: The Easy Winners Joplin had already had a hit in 1899 with the publication of the sheet music to his tune The Maple Leaf Rag. Over the next few years ragtime would become the most popular musical genre in the United States. Karate Kid, by the way, has been practicing The Maple Leaf Rag for a while, but he still doesn’t have it quite up to speed.

Art:
Nineteen year old Spanish artist Pablo Picasso presents his first exhibition in Paris in June, 1901.

Child with a Dove by Pablo Picasso, c.1901.