The Music Of the Years Gone By: Hoagy Carmichael

10.27.10 This Halloween weekend, there’s a certain story I keep thinking about. It involves a group of young troublemakers, a college town, and damage to property. Sure, this describes almost any Halloween in the history of Madison, Wisconsin’s existence.  But Read More …

Trouble’s just a bubble, and the clouds will soon roll by

It’s a vastly underrepresented musical era, yet – in my view – it is one of the most enjoyable: the music of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Perhaps part of the reason we don’t hear this music anywhere is Read More …