“Jeg elsker musikken din,” I tell Norwegian folk singer Juni Habel near the start of our virtual meeting, she in her country house an hour outside Oslo, and me in my country house outside New York ...

Geirr Tveitt’s reputation was tarnished by his nationalist politics. But a new generation of musicians is bringing this ...

Geitungen, a folk music trio from Norway, will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Gyda Varden Sons of Norway Lodge in Grand Forks, playing tunes from its home area Rogaland. Musicians Håvard Ims, Olav ...

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When Arna Rennan applied for fellowships to study traditional Norwegian folk music in Norway, she had a plan. "I had usefulness in mind," the singer/painter said, as she sat in her comfortable kitchen ...

This evocation of an aspect of country life is part of a radical reinterpretation of Edvard Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser (19 Norwegian Folk Songs), composed in 1896. The first piece in the cycle is ...

For sisters, Jane Norman and Ann E. Black, don't really look alike. Ann, who is the eldest at 67 and is a self-professed tomboy, has short, dark hair and moves quickly about a room. When she was a ...

Nora Taksdal plays the viola and is the principal violist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Nora Taksdal plays the viola – the slightly larger sibling of the violin – and is the principal violist of ...

Although pianist Leif Ove Andsnes travels the world, he pays particular attention to the music of his native Norway. Two composers who make frequent appearances in his repertoire are Edvard Grieg and ...

Norwegian citizen, poet, photographer, and researcher Wera Saether, inspired by her love for Bengali folk culture, established ‘Mayer Tori’ with local cultural activists. She recently spoke to S Dilip ...