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 ...

This is one in a series of essays celebrating Indiana's bicentennial by looking at the top ideas, people and places of Indiana. Two of the 20th century’s most popular song writers hailed from Indiana, ...

What Hoosier wrote one of the most-recorded songs in history, became America’s first great composer-performer, passed the Indiana bar exam, and closely resembled one of cinema’s most dashing 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 ...