The rich, musical legacy of Stephen Foster is brought to moving life in Beautiful Dreamer, which will receive its first, scaled-down, public presentation as part of The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre ...

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, ...

About the Album: Although America's first great songwriter, Stephen Collins Foster, died 140 years ago, his legacy lives on in the hundreds of songs he left behind. Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of ...

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 ...