If Cole Porter and George Gershwin penned the soundtrack of the city, then Hoagy Carmichael was the voice of America's heartland. His best-known songs are now American standards: "Stardust," "Georgia ...

Much of American culture in the 20th century contains a duality: a craving for the new, and a simultaneous yearning for an idealized past that maybe never was. Perhaps that's why the most popular and ...

Songwriter, entertainer and actor Hoagy Carmichael, best known for the song "Stardust," was born in humble conditions in Bloomington on Nov. 22, 1899. Howard Hoagland Carmichael's father, Howard, was ...

We continue our rebroadcast of our series on American Popular Song with a tribute to composer Hoagy Carmichael. Carmichael wrote "Star Dust," "Heart and Soul," "The Nearness of You," "Skylark" and ...

Last weekend, the History Committee at Thunderbird Country Club threw a big party. The idea was to honor one of the club’s original members, and one of its most well-known. His name might not be as ...

New acoustic music from Youssou N'Dour; The African fusion of Mali's Salif Keita; The remastered Nonesuch Explorer Series; Stardust memories of Hoagy Carmichael; A jazz revolution from Django ...

Three Chicago cabaret artists share a special kinship with Hoagy Carmichael. That’s because Jeff Dean, Laura Freeman and Beckie Menzie are all Indiana natives, like the late acclaimed composer, ...

It takes an album like this to fully comprehend and perhaps even appreciate the contributions Hoagy Carmichael made to American popular music. Tunes like his "I Get Along without You Very Well", "The ...

There’s no shortage of fine cabaret singers working today, but those who help the listener better understand the work of a particular songwriter are in considerably shorter supply. That’s reason ...

The cast of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road is Markcus Blair (Off-Broadway debut), Sara Esty (An American in Paris on Broadway, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story), Dion Simmons Grier (Sister Act and ...

Billy Philadelphia's 1980s cabaret impersonation of Hoagy Carmichael has morphed into a lavish supper club concert act with an irrepressible emcee, a knockout leading lady belter, an adagio dance team ...