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.

3/22

You’re invited to travel back three centuries for music composed, premiered, or published in 1726. You’ll hear music by William Babell, J. S. Bach, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, François Couperin, Francesco Geminiani, Giovanni Antonio Guido and G. F. Handel.

 

3/29

This week’s program brings you music that takes hymn tunes (broadly defined) as its starting point. The composers are J. S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Andrzej Panufnik, Florence Price and Virgil Thomson.

 

4/5

On Easter, you’ll hear music for the season by William Billings, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Joseph Haydn and John Philip Sousa.