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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Devil Wears Prada 2 starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt, made a splash at the weekend box office, overtaking Michael for the top spot. New movies in theaters – The Devil Wears ...

In some ways it is easier to say what Hoagy Carmichael wasn't than to say what he was. He wasn't, like Irving Berlin or George Gershwin or Jerome Kern or Richard Rodgers, a composer of songs for the ...

Hoagy Carmichael has written 6 shows including Walk With Music (Composer), Alive and Kicking (Composer), Ain't Misbehavin' (Composer), Stardust (Composer), Dream (Composer/Lyricist), Swing!

This first full biography of Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981), a major jazz singer/songwriter, is a dense labor of love. Sudhalter (Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contributions to Jazz) admits to ...

Larry Mantle talks with author Richard Sudhalter about his new biography, Stardust Melody (Oxford University Press), on the life and enduring music of Hoagy Carmichael. LAist is an independent, ...