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Music for a While

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