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Take a trip to the St. Olaf Christmas Festival for beloved hymns, classical masterworks, and folk songs from around the world. This cherished annual tradition, featuring nearly 500 student musicians ...

My friend Liz has a theory: When December approaches and there is no snow on the ground, recently retired St. Olaf College Pastor Bruce Benson picks up his red phone, the one that sits on his desk ...

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Last week 8,000 stolid Scandinavian-Americans converged in cars and busses on the little hilltop college town of Northfield, Minn. Only the first 4,000 jammed their way into the red brick gymnasium of ...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota college jazz ensemble plans to tour Cuba next spring. St. Olaf College in Northfield received an invitation from the Cuban Ministry of Culture to have its jazz ...

Robert Scholz had a passion for music, learning to play the piano as a child and developing his voice — a light and clear tenor — as his instrument of choice. As a professor of music at St. Olaf ...

Funeral observances for Robert "BJ" Johnson included a coffin that he picked out at Costco, a jacket reflecting his decades of commitment to St. Olaf College and its musicians, and a memorial service ...

After 28 years as conductor of the St. Olaf Choir, Anton Armstrong has developed a personal metric to gauge how a piece will resonate with listeners. “If my mom was still alive and in the audience, ...

KIM LAWTON, correspondent: It’s been a century of celebration. For the past one hundred years, St. Olaf College, a small Lutheran school in Minnesota, has put on a Christmas concert that has become ...

Anton Armstrong is celebrating his 25th year as conductor of the St. Olaf's Choir, which performs in Kalamazoo on Feb. 1. KALAMAZOO, MI — Twenty-five years ago, the world was changing. The Iron ...