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.

8/16

This year’s ongoing celebration of the 250^th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence continues with American music from the 19th century. The composers are Dudley Buck, Benjamin Carr, Arthur Foote, Anthony Philip Heinrich, Justin Holland, Ethelbert Nevin and Horatio Parker.

 

8/23

This week you’re invited to travel back a century to hear music composed or premiered in 1926. It’s by Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, George Gershwin, Zoltán Kodály, Carl Nielsen,  Giacomo Puccini, Jean Sibelius and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

 

8/30

This week’s offering returns to musical form this program is named. You’ll hear sets of variations on themes by Beethoven, composed by Wilfred Josephs, Max Reger, Archduke Rudolph of Austria, Camille Saint-Saëns and Henri Vieuxtemps.