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 ...

Imagine a law-school graduate who works on Wall Street but ends up becoming one of America’s most beloved songwriters. That’s the improbable journey of Hoagy Carmichael, the man behind such timeless ...

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 ...

When Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch raise their voices in song, they're like two trumpets in a big-band brass section. In their current Metropolitan Room gig, "Dreaming of a Song: The Music of ...

Hoagy Carmichael in all of his 1920s glory... A brief illustration on the importance of Hoagy Carmichael: A number of years ago, I was visiting my mother in a local nursing home. She, like the ...

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) continues its 20th Anniversary season with Harry, Hoagy & Harold, an evening of song featuring the greatest hits and rarities by three American song-writers: Harry ...

THE FIRST TIME I heard the name Hoagy Carmichael, I scratched my chinit was college, and I rarely shaved, so my face itched a lotand thought, “Ah yes, the Black Power activist.” Luckily, I kept my ...

If you've haven't heard of Hoagy Carmichael, you've at least heard his music. No pianist worth his salt can honestly say he has never been requested to play "Stardust." And that song, first recorded ...

Clapton was with The Yardbirds and George with The Beatles when they first met in the early 1960s. However, George told Mitchell Glazer (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and ...

Some believe it's a song about a girl. Others believe it's a song about a place. A state. The Peachtree State. The two men who wrote the music and lyrics—Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell—can't ...

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 ...

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 ...