The Central Oregon Symphony’s Winter Concert this weekend at Caldera High School features the year’s Young Artist Competition winners. The competition is held each December, and because of the ...

"A musical mystery. Sir Edward Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' have confounded music scholars and music fans since its premiere. Elgar tells us that the theme is never actually played during the piece. So ...

Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Enigma Variations, a series of 13 musical sketches of the composer's friends which concludes with a representation of the composer himself. Show more Stephen Johnson ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. From a single melody, Elgar cleverly created 14 different variations capturing ...

It is the musical puzzle that has seen Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, the works of Shakespeare and even the mathematical formula for Pi suggested as possible answers. But now a respected art critic has ...

WHEN I last heard the Phil perform the Enigma Variations they were running late and conductor Sir Charles Mackerras set the tempo at a brisk trot, which made for an interesting Nimrod. But he wouldn’t ...

Enigma Variations is full of surprises. And the biggest one is that by the time the play’s over a lot of the things that are puzzling or unbelievable or irksome about it wind up making sense. Granted, ...

Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations" still keeps listeners guessing. What's so "enigmatic?" Elgar said that his original theme for his set of variations hints at another theme, a popular tune perhaps, ...

One theme – endlessly talked about – and fourteen variations on it. Each variation was the result of a parlour game between Elgar and his wife, Alice. He’d played the theme to her, which he described ...

Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's "Enigma Variations", a series of 13 musical sketches of the composer's friends which concludes with a representation of Elgar himself. The theme of the variations was ...