Album composed along Pilgrim’s path
Inspired by Norway Eric Stavney Seattle I recently got a hot tip that a Scottish composer named Alexander Chapman Campbell was coming out with an album of pieces he composed while hiking through Norway....
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Ducks versus sons
Henrik Ibsen’s influence on Arthur Miller is perhaps best seen in All My Sons Christine Foster Meloni Washington All My Sons. When this play first appeared on Broadway in 1947, critics called it an...
Burn is a downer
Film review John Smistad Olympia, Wash. Burn the Place you Hide is an overlong investigation of the life and career of Norwegian singer/songwriter Thomas Hansen, known to his eclectic fans as “St. Thomas.” Hansen’s...
OSLO(VE) sings to Norway’s top city
M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway OSLO(VE) is the second album of the works by Uno Alexander Vesje, a young (born 1989) Norwegian composer who studied harp at the Manhattan School of Music in New...
Meet Norway’s trumpet superstar
Miss Thing Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth is an artist who marches to the beat of her own horn. This 30-year-old hails from Oslo and has been setting the world...
Shaped by Norway
An interview with Norwegian-American painter Lois Tonnessen Andersen Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. It’s always wonderful to discover a new Norwegian-American artist. So it was with great pleasure that I was introduced to the work...
Trumpet meditations
Grieg Society brings Arctic duo to Seattle Lori Ann Reinhall The Norwegian American 2017 marked the founding of Seattle’s new Northwest Edvard Grieg Society, and after a series of intimate house concerts, the group...
Don’t Hug Me returns to LA
Theater Review Judith Gabriel Vinje Los Angeles The world premiere of the new musical comedy, Don’t Hug Me, We’re Family, is the sixth in Minnesota-born playwright Phil Olson’s award-winning series of Don’t Hug Me...
Take a wild ride with Fred Lammers
Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Grab your board. I’ll pull down the convertible top. I’m amped to take you for a spin to the hip, whimsical, world of Norwegian artist Fred Lammers. His work is...
Pop mini-album hides shocking depth
Norwegian Anana’s Well, at times discordant, will keep you coming back for more Sean LaFleur New York Over the past few years Norwegian musicians have had a consistent presence in the top tiers of...
