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 ...

The Norwegian play Peer Gynt is the story of a man's lifelong search for fulfillment. Composer Edvard Grieg wrote incidental music for Ibsen's play. We start this hour with the brooding "Aase's Death, ...

A commanding sequence in the second act of the Guthrie's emotionally sprawling production of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" has Mark Rylance alone onstage as the titular wanderer. A commanding sequence in the ...

In choosing what it would play for its Spring Concert, the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra once again went back in time 100 years to its first season, selecting pieces by Scandinavia's most ...

To close the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s current season, Robert Moody assembled an all-Norwegian program, inspired by a suggestion from an orchestra patron who wanted to explore his own Norwegian ...

Playwright Henrik Ibsen pressured composer Edvard Grieg to write incidental music for his play, "Peer Gynt," but Grieg thought the play was a totally unmusical subject. Grieg's music turned out to be ...