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 ...

One of the most recognizable and widely known tunes in western culture had a rather inauspicious beginning, and has an amazing connection to the desert. The melody was composed by Howard Hoagland ...

The jazz standard “Star Dust” was written in Keuka Lake, N.Y.; or was it on the campus of the Indiana University Law School? Or maybe in the Book Nook, of the Gables in Blooming, Ind.? Just goes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The splendid band on hand included soaring saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, who includes “Stardust” on her debut recording as a leader, released in June of this year. Hanahan played it live in her show at ...

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 ...

I approached Stardust Melody skeptically. With two Carmichael autobiographies recently re-released, did we really need this biography? Could Sudhalter, so steeped in Hoagy Carmichael's music as a ...

A house on South Washington Street damaged in a fire last week has been identified as the one-time home of the legendary songwriter and musician Hoagy Carmichael.In fact, it might have been the place ...

One cold winter night two years ago, the past crept up on Bucky Halker and his wife Toni as they sat sipping wine at home and listening to music. “I got the idea that night,” said Halker. “Toni and I ...

The York Theater Company’s production is enthusiastically performed by a cast of seven. But the nostalgic revue pushes the limits of its case for the songwriter’s music. By Juan A. Ramírez You don’t ...

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 ...