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.
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3/1
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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.
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3/8
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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.
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3/15
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This week’s program celebrates a few of the patrons whose generosity has made some wonderful music possible. The composers who benefited from that generosity are Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Françaix, Arthur Honegger, Modest Mussorgsky (assisted by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), Paul Schoenfield, P. I. Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner.