Decades ago in a K-TEL informercial, a tweedy British pitchman assured us that a highbrow record collection was "all the classical music your family will ever need." Swirling around David Schweizer's ...
Going with your gut isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. If one of the composers next up at the symphony had followed his first reaction to a request for music, the world would have lost some great ...
What child, having once heard the gruff bassoons barking out the melody of In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, could ever forget the menacing march of the troll ...
Barclay’s ‘concert-theater’ approach condensed Ibsen’s play to around 80 minutes, providing a rare opportunity to hear ‘Morning Mood’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ in dramatic context Grieg’s ...
2 Video: First Look at Michael Mayer-Directed LA TRAVIATA at The Metropolitan Opera 3 Video: First Look at THE CRUCIBLE at Washington National Opera I’ve never seen a stage so packed with performing ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Louis Langrée and the ...
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 ...
(L-R) Andrew Love as a Troll, Shunté Lofton as Peer Gynt, Alli Villines as a Troll, and Faith Fossett as a Trol Credit: Photo by Pin Lim/Forrest Photography Classical Theatre Company has answered a ...
Peer Gynt Malmö Chamber Choir Malmö Symphony Orchestra Edvard Grieg, Composer Bjarte Engeset, Conductor Before a southern convent (Foran sydens kloster) Edvard Grieg, Composer Malmö Symphony Orchestra ...
150 years since Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt premiered in Norway in 1876, writer and music historian Leah Broad explores whether and how the play and Edvard Grieg’s incidental music are still able to ...
There is no way in hell to stage "Peer Gynt" in a way that would make Ibsen's monumental epic drama accessible to anyone who didn't grow up on the fabulous legend of this Norwegian folk hero. But ...