This bustling small city surrounded by mountains and fjords, once a center of international trade and the hub of Norway’s rich cultural life, was the birthplace of such luminaries as the dramatist ...

Choral, vocal and piano works by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg will form the backbone of next week's Grieg Festival, the first of its kind in Sarasota. The festival includes three concerts, an ...

André Watts has achieved legendary status, as has Grieg’s Piano Concerto. So when they meet, the only real danger is that one legend will be tired of the other. Fortunately, there was no evidence of ...

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Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...

In 1942, the team of Robert Wright and George Forrest were completing a seven-year contract as staff composer-lyricists at MGM. At the studio, the team had had occasion to fashion new lyrics to ...