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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.

5/10

This week’s music is provided by composers and performers who have been awarded the title Dame Commander of the British Empire: Isobel Baillie, Evelyn Glennie, Jane Glover, Thea King, Elizabeth Maconchy, Nellie Melba, Ethel Smyth, Kiri Te Kanawa and Gillian Weir.

 

5/17

You’ll hear more than a little night music on this week's program of nocturnes by Hector Berlioz, Leonard Bernstein, Cécile Chaminade, Frederic Chopin, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Gerald Finzi, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Colin McPhee, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Henri Rabaud and Franz Strauss.

 

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.