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Music for a While

September Songs

by Katchie Cartwright
September 27, 2026

September songs mark the end of a long summer season and the beginning of one that promises to be shorter and cooler. Familiar compositions by the likes of Weill, Lins and Strayhorn stand with newer musings, performed by the composers and others. That's the long and short of it here in San Antonio, Texas, where the ...

Sonhos, Pesadelos & An American Tune

by Katchie Cartwright
September 21, 2025

Dreams and nightmares this week on Caminhos do Jazz, with a host of superb Brazilian performers, including singers Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Alaide Costa, Lenine and the MPB group Nação Zumbi. The set also includes a cut by the extraordinary Norwegian world-jazz ensemble Music for a While, featuring vocalist Tora Augestad, and one from the renowned ...

Graces That Refrain

By Music for a While

Label: Grappa
Released: 2012
Track listing: Flow My Tears; Come Again; Der Leiermann; La reine de Coeur; Les Chemins de l´amour; Erinnerung an die Marie A.; Je te veux; Lascia ch'io pianga; Une Jeune Filette; Ave Maria; Hush, no more.

Music for a While: Graces That Refrain

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 30, 2012

Five years have passed since Norwegian quintet Music for a While released its debut, Weill Variations (Grappa, 2007), a collection of fresh, outspoken versions of Kurt Weill songs. Now this dream team band--headed by cabaret diva Tora Augestad, with accordionist Stian Carstensen (leader of Farmers Market), trumpeter Mathias Eick (from Jaga Jazzist and a leader in ...

Weill Variations

By Music for a While

Label: Grappa
Released: 2008
Track listing: Ballade Von Der Sexuallen H

Music for a While: Weill Variations

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 12, 2008

Any ensemble with a female vocalist performing a program based on the songs of composer Kurt Weill calls for immediate comparisons to such iconic interpreters of the composer's repertoire by actress/vocalist Lotte Lenya (who was married to Weill) and actress/vocalist Uta Lemper. But Music for a While is not afraid of such obvious references. The Norwegian ...

Weill Variations

By Music for a While

Label: Hoob Records
Released: 2007