Just below the unassuming surfaces of Joplin's piano rags are sophisticated musical riches, especially the inventive harmonic language, with its shifting chromatic turns.

And in the musical riches of the ethereal, sprightly "Goblin Market" score by Polly Pen, for whom the miniature musical is trademark.

EVEN SO, IT IS UNLIKELY EVER to find the place in the standard repertory that its musical riches will continue to urge for it.

Barton went on to play older Benny in Our Benny, a rags to riches musical set in Liverpool.

It is well worth hoping that this will happen, because the strong qualities of the score, its musical riches, are just too good to be left lying on the shelf or trotted out in tidy little concert excerpts.

It was a reminder of the golden era of Afro-Cuban music in New York, the 40's and 50's, when two cultures came together and produced extraordinary musical riches.

Rod Stewart, Genesis, Tina Turner - all have sought to avail themselves of the musical riches Brazil has to offer.

And what could be more welcome than a sincere German willingness to explore and appreciate these Jewish musical riches as part of the process of remembrance, reconciliation and healing?

Civil War buffs, suddenly finding themselves with an embarrassment of musical riches on the New York stage, are likely to find amusement in abundance in "Reunion."

The week's programs at Caramoor offer the usual diversity of musical riches.