MICHAEL LASSER & FRIENDS

MICHAEL LASSER & FRIENDS

That Stardust Melody: The Songs of Hoagy Carmichael

Saturday, January 24 at 8:00PM

Tickets: $22.50/$17.50 GPAC Family

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Peabody award-winning author and pundit Michael Lasser returns to GPAC

with his amazing friends, songstress Cindy Miller and pianist Alan Jones to celebrate the musical genius of the

great Hoagy Carmichael.

An attorney-at-law and a composer, Hoagy Carmichael was an intriguing mix of contradictions who,

when all was said and done, wrote as many classic American songs as any of his great contemporaries. If he fell

just short of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, he was certainly the equal of Frank Loesser and Harry Warren.

In a thirty-year career, Hoagy emerged as an unlikely mix of the down home and the sophisticated – the

young fellow from Bloomington, complete with Hoosier twang, and the New York jazzman at home in the big

city. Although he was a composer, he wrote a lot of lyrics for which he never took credit. He also acted and sang

in movies, even though he said he sang “flatsy through the nose.” Flatsy or not, such songs as “Star Dust,”

“Georgia on My Mind,” and “Rockin’ Chair” are among the great standards that continue to survive, generation

after generation.