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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.

5/24

This week’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of this country brings you music by composers who emigrated here: Benjamin Carr, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Charles Grobe, Victor Herbert, Paul Hindemith, Charles Martin Loeffler and Charles Theodore Pachelbel.

 

5/31

The partita through the centuries is the theme for this week’s program. The music is by Johann Albrechtsberger, Grażyna Bacewicz, J. S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Krommer, W. A. Mozart (maybe), Arvo Pärt and Ralph Vaughan Williams.


 

6/7

This week brings you music inspired by the life and works of Dante Alighieri. The composers are Granville Bantock, Arthur Foote, Franz Liszt and P. I. Tchaikovsky.