Composer Stephen Schwartz wrote two new songs for Wicked: For Good, including “No Place Like Home,” sung by Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba. Schwartz said the song shows “how much she loves Oz,” even if it ...

What a long, strange bubble ride it’s been. But the work of songwriter Stephen Schwartz on “Wicked” — the property he first ...

Dion has unveiled his new collaboration with Paul Simon, “Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America).” “At first, I just had the melody and the refrain ‘Here in America,’” Dion explained in a conversation ...

From celebratory to critical, these tracks were inspired by the U.S. of A. It is impossible to live in any of the 50 states in the U.S.A. and not know about schoolhouse classics like “The ...

People have been writing songs about America before we were the United States of America. From the early minstrel-type song-wielding storytellers to today’s modern artists, music about America has ...

Twenty years ago, the country legend talked with Variety's chief music critic about what drove him to write the anti-Bush/anti-Iraq-war song, now being revived as the Republican VP candidate's walk-up ...