Music critic Milo Miles reviews Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster, featuring performances by many contemporary artists, including John Prine, Yo Yo Ma and Mavis Staples.

The writer of “Oh! Susanna” was both the first professional songwriter in America, and the first to be exploited by music publishers Stephen Foster was both America’s first professional songwriter, ...

The great 19th-century American Stephen Foster was a northerner who wrote pseudo-black southerner songs. His massive hits, crafted while their protagonists were slaves, include 'My Old Kentucky Home', ...

The Dady Brothers and Richard Barry return with Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster Tells His Own Story), starting June 13 at the Multi-Cultural Community Center. Making its debut in 2014 in Mount ...

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The answer to the question haunting every Beach Boys fan -- Why was "Smile" abandoned in 1967? -- comes relatively late in David Leaf's paean to Brian Wilson, "Beautiful Dreamer." Wilson, seated at ...

I couldn't get the tune of "Beautiful Dreamer" out of my head the other day and kept humming it. I tried to remember the words but kept repeating the same verses without getting the essence of the ...

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The answer to the question haunting every Beach Boys fan -- Why was "Smile" abandoned in 1967? -- comes relatively late in David Leaf's paean to Brian Wilson, "Beautiful Dreamer." Wilson, seated at ...