A Guest of Honor (opera)
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A Guest of Honor (ISJ 54)[1] is the first opera created by celebrated ragtime composer Scott Joplin. The opera had two acts, followed the model of grand opera,[2] and followed the events surrounding the 1901 White House dinner hosted by President Theodore Roosevelt for the civil rights leader and educator Booker T. Washington.[3]