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Theme & Variations

SUNDAYS @ 2PM

Theme & Variations introduces a new topic each week, presenting a wide range of music associated with that theme. Drawn from a millennium of Western classical music, the selections are an eclectic mix of familiar favorites and rarities. Theme and Variations is produced locally in Discover Classical's studios by host Joe Law.

2/22

This week’s program returns to the musical form that it’s named for, with sets of variations on operatic themes—and the themes themselves. The operatic sources are by Vincenzo Bellini, André Grétry, Giacomo Meyerbeer, W. A. Mozart, Giovanni Paisiello and Gioachino Rossini. The variations are by Joseph Arban, Ludwig van Beethoven, Emilia Giuliani-Guglielmi, Adolf von Henselt, Anton Reicha and Pierre Rode.

 

3/1

This week’s program brings you two themes, a dual observance of Women’s History Month and the country’s 250th birthday. The music is by American composers Amy Beach, Gloria Coates, Libby Larsen, Florence Price and Joan Tower.

 

3/8

You can take a trip to the ocean this week, with music inspired by those vast bodies of water. The composers are Edward Elgar, Alexander Glazunov, Osvaldo Golijov, Henry Kimball Hadley, Jacques Ibert and Felix Mendelssohn.