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.

6/21

Adaptation is the theme this week, with music adapted for different performing forces than originally imagined. The arrangers are Charles Avison, William Babell, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Florence Price, John Rutter, Friedrich Silcher, George Szell and Pauline Viardot-Garcia.

 

6/28

This week you’ll hear music inspired by rivers. The composers are Frederick Delius, Duke Ellington, Julius Fučík, Jennifer Higdon, Iosif Ivanovici, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss II.

 

7/5

This week’s program continues the year-long observance of the 250th anniversary of this country’s independence with music inspired by events in our history. The composer/historians are John Adams, Samuel Barber, Michael Daugherty, Adolphus Hailstork, James Hewitt, Vincent Persichetti and Randall Thompson.