It was 1944 when the trolley first started to clang. “The Trolley Song,” a second-act standout from the 1944 movie musical “Meet Me in St. Louis,” was sung by Judy Garland in striking Technicolor. It ...

Award-winning songwriter Hugh Martin has died at the age of 96. A message on his official website has confirmed that Martin passed away of an undisclosed ailment last Friday in Encinitas, California.

Musicals spread the spirit of cinema like few other film genres, with the greatest musical numbers capable of connecting millions of people through the collective act of singing along to a classic ...

Eighty years after its release, the sentimental holiday standard continues to enchant listeners and inspire the musicians who take it on. By Tim Balk Audiences who filed into movie theaters in late ...