纽约爱乐乐团的钢琴手托尼在卡内基音乐厅排练时认识了做清扫工的诺拉。两人相恋结婚、并育有一子小托尼。后老托尼因为自己的新式艺术理念得不到理解被辞退，酗酒摔下楼梯身亡，诺拉努力想要培养小托尼成为能登上卡内基音乐厅的音乐家，并且借着工作之便，让儿子从小就一直观摩在卡内基音乐厅各大师的演出。时间流转，中间穿插很多当代顶尖音乐家的演出。但是小托尼也和父亲一样试图进行新式音乐的创作，与母亲发生了争执并离家出走。诺拉后来成为卡内基音乐厅的管理者，并也对很多有才华的年青音乐家伸出援手，而小托尼最后也登上卡内基音乐厅，完成了母亲的梦想。 (根据台湾友人Hwa's Memory in the Star提供的资料编辑)
多名音乐大师友情出演：指挥家达姆罗施、布鲁诺·瓦尔特、罗金斯基、弗里茨·莱纳和斯托科夫斯基；歌唱家ise Stevens, Lily Pons, Jan Peerce and Ezio Pinza；钢琴大师鲁宾斯坦、大提琴家皮亚蒂戈尔斯基、以及小提琴大师海菲兹；好莱坞作曲家沃恩·门罗

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.