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"Heyr himna smiður": Iceland’s Favorite Hymn
In an informal online survey in 2018, Icelanders were asked to name their favorite piece of music by a local composer, and the winner was...
Nov 1, 2023


Discovering Iceland’s First (Unfinished) Opera
Iceland has a remarkably brief tradition of “classical” music—in fact, it is still less than a century since the first symphonic...
Sep 30, 2023


The Ones Who Were Rejected
As I write the concluding chapter of my book on the exiled musicians who made it to Iceland from Germany in the 1930s, I find it...
Aug 1, 2023
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