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.
In recognition of Women’s History Month, this week’s program brings you music by five nineteenth-century composers: Louise Farrenc, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Augusta Holmès, Emilie Mayer and Alice Mary Smith.
A 1989 movie called “Coming to America” provides the theme this week, with music by composers who emigrated to this country: Rebecca Clarke, Jeremiah Dencke, Victor Herbert, James Hewitt, Tania Léon, Charles Martin Loeffler, André Previn, Alexander Reinagle, Igor Stravinsky and Chen Yi.
1925 MUSIC—Program 1 (Program 431—April 6, 2025)
There’s time travel in store this week, with music from a century ago by Frank Bridge, Aaron Copland, Edward Elgar, Carl Nielsen, Ottorino Respighi and Richard Strauss.
