Lily Sullivan is among the winners of Central Oregon Symphony's Young Artist Competition, held in December. The Central Oregon Symphony’s Winter Concert this weekend at Caldera High School features ...

Jon Robertson conducted one of his favorite pieces of music Saturday night in his next-to-the-last concert as music director of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. That favorite was Edward Elgar’s ...

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 ...

Elgar's Enigma Variations is a sublime piece of musical portraiture, developing the enigmatic melody that gives the work its title into 13 sketches of the composer's friends, signed off with a robust ...

Houston Symphony presents Elgar’s Enigma Variations, featuring one of the most beloved works in all of classical music. Conceived as a “musical photo album,” with each variation presenting a sketch of ...

Pop hitmaker Ed Sheeran says his new album is inspired by his 20th century musical namesake, Edward Elgar. Around the year 1900, Elgar wrote to his publisher Jaeger – known in his musical sketch as ...

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 ...

Here's a musical riddle that has kept people guessing for over a century. English composer Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, ('Enigma') op. 36 is one of England's most beloved musical ...

‘Nimrod’ from Elgar’s Enigma Variations has become a favourite at British cultural events, from King Charles’ coronation to the 2012 Olympics. The composer named his theme ‘Nimrod’, the name of a ...

It’s a harmonic convergence of distinguished women in music. DSO favorite Anne-Marie McDermott joins with Estonian conductor Anu Tali for Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto and Alisson Kruusmaa’s ethereal ...